{"id":"sheet-sb-food-truck-budget-columns","audience":"small-business","category":"spreadsheets","track":"data","technique":"format","title":"Set up a monthly budget sheet for a food truck","free":false,"task":"You want a simple monthly budget sheet for your food truck business only, using the 5 business categories in your notes. Ask for exactly 5 numbered lines, one per column A-E, each written as \"A: Header - what goes in it\", where one column is Difference = Planned minus Actual and one column flags rows that are over budget. Plain text, under 100 words.","materialLabel":"Your notes on monthly costs (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Food truck - monthly money notes (Rosie's Tacos)\n\nBusiness costs I track every month:\n- Food supplies: about $3,800\n- Fuel (truck + generator): about $600\n- Commissary kitchen rent: $900 flat\n- Permits and insurance: $350\n- Card processing fees: about $420\n\nPersonal stuff that keeps ending up in my notes:\n- my car payment $410\n- phone bill $85 (I use it for the business too, ugh)\n- groceries for home\n\nProblems last year:\n- I never knew which category ran over until tax time\n- my old sheet had 14 columns and I stopped using it in March\n- I check it on my phone, so it needs to be narrow\n\nGoal: one tab per month, same layout every month.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":5},{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not limiting the columns","why":"The AI designs a full bookkeeping sheet with 10+ columns you won't keep up with.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly 5 columns, A-E.\"","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"No over-budget check","why":"The AI adds totals but nothing that tells you which category ran over.","fix":"Add: \"One column is Difference = Planned - Actual; one flags over budget.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Mixing in personal costs","why":"Your notes include your car payment and groceries, and the AI adds them as categories.","fix":"Add: \"Business categories only, the 5 in my notes.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Long or formatted output","why":"AI writes a setup guide with bold headings and tips.","fix":"Add: \"Each line under 18 words, plain text.\"","checks":["maxWords","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Limits the columns","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b.{0,15}columns","a-e|a to e"]},{"label":"Asks for a difference column","patterns":["difference","planned (minus|-) actual"]},{"label":"Asks for an over-budget flag","patterns":["over budget","flag","over\\?"]},{"label":"Keeps it to business","patterns":["business only","no personal","5 (business )?categories"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown"]}],"hint":"A budget sheet you'll actually use is small. Say how many columns, what they must do, and what to keep out.","rubricLabels":["There are exactly 5 columns A-E, each written as letter, header and what goes in it, and they include Category, Planned and Actual","One column is Difference calculated as Planned minus Actual, and another column flags over budget (for example Over? showing Yes when Actual is more than Planned)","The Category column lists the 5 business categories (food supplies, fuel, commissary rent, permits and insurance, card fees) and leaves out personal costs like the car payment and groceries"]}