{"id":"wri-off-training-budget-request","audience":"office","category":"applications","technique":"grounding","title":"Request training money with a cost breakdown that fits the rules","free":false,"task":"You're requesting money from your department's training fund for a course. The request form needs under 80 words: name the course and date, show the cost math on one line, say how it helps your current work with one example, and request only what the fund covers. Plain text. Write a prompt that gets that request.","materialLabel":"Fund rules and your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"MERIDIAN COUNTY - Admin Staff Training Fund (FY2027)\n- Covers registration fees only. Travel, meals and parking are not covered.\n- Up to $600 per employee per year.\n- Request at least 3 weeks before the course.\n\nMY NOTES (Denise Hall, Administrative Assistant, Public Works)\n- Course: \"Advanced Excel for Office Professionals\" by Tri-County Career College, Saturday, Jan 17.\n- Registration: $375. Parking at the college: $15. Lunch: about $20.\n- Workbook: required, $45, sold by the college with registration (counts as registration per HR's email of Nov 3).\n- Today is Nov 12, so I'm more than 3 weeks ahead.\n- How it helps: I build the monthly road-repair tracking report by hand from 3 spreadsheets; it takes about 6 hours. The course covers lookups and pivot tables, which would cut that a lot.\n- My supervisor, Mark, already said yes in our 1:1.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":80},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 80 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"3 sentences under 18 words plus one math line.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Leaving out the basics","why":"The AI writes about wanting to grow and forgets the course name and date.","fix":"Say it: \"Name Advanced Excel for Office Professionals, Saturday, Jan 17.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Requesting the wrong amount","why":"The AI adds parking and lunch, or leaves out the workbook HR said counts.","fix":"Add: \"Math line: $375 + $45 workbook = $420. No parking or lunch.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Vague benefit","why":"The AI says \"it will improve my efficiency\" with no example.","fix":"Add: \"Use the 6-hour monthly road-repair report as the example. Plain text.\"","checks":["r2","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]},{"label":"Names the course and date","patterns":["advanced excel","jan(uary)?\\s*17"]},{"label":"Shows the math","patterns":["math","420","375"]},{"label":"Leaves out uncovered costs","patterns":["parking","lunch","not covered","registration only"]},{"label":"Gives a work example","patterns":["report","6 hours","example"]}],"hint":"Funding requests get approved when they match the rules exactly. Give the AI what's covered, the math and one concrete example.","rubricLabels":["Names the course (Advanced Excel for Office Professionals) and the date (Saturday, Jan 17)","Shows the cost math on one line and requests $420 (registration $375 + required workbook $45), with no parking or lunch included","Gives a work example: the monthly road-repair tracking report built by hand from 3 spreadsheets (about 6 hours)"]}