{"id":"wri-pm-transfer-90-day-plan","audience":"product-managers","category":"applications","technique":"grounding","title":"Answer a transfer application's 90-day plan question","free":false,"task":"You're applying to transfer to the Growth team. The form asks what you'd do in your first 90 days. Answer in exactly 3 numbered lines labeled 'Days 1-30:', 'Days 31-60:' and 'Days 61-90:', each under 25 words, tied to the team's posted goal and current numbers. No buzzwords ('synergy', 'leverage', 'move the needle', 'deep dive'). Plain text. Write a prompt that gets that answer.","materialLabel":"The team posting and your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"INTERNAL POSTING - Product Manager, Growth (Tallyhop)\nTeam goal for next 2 quarters: raise new-user activation (first invoice sent within 7 days) from 22% to 30%.\nThe team owns signup, onboarding and the first-invoice flow.\n\nFROM THE GROWTH TEAM'S LAST QUARTERLY REVIEW\n- Activation: 22% (was reported as 24% in the draft deck; analytics corrected it to 22%).\n- Biggest drop-off: 41% of new users quit at the \"connect your bank\" step.\n- Users who use an invoice template activate at twice the rate of those who don't.\n\nMY NOTES (me: Dani, PM on the Payments team, 2 years)\n- I'd start by watching 10 onboarding sessions and reading the drop-off data.\n- Then test making the bank connection optional until after the first invoice.\n- Then test showing templates first in onboarding.\n- I know the bank-connection code partners well from Payments.\n- I've heard rumors the Growth team might get a new director. Not relevant.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Writing an essay","why":"The AI writes paragraphs about your philosophy of product management.","fix":"Show it: \"Exactly 3 numbered lines: 1. Days 1-30: ...\"","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"Ignoring their numbers","why":"The AI writes a generic plan that could apply to any team, or uses the draft 24%.","fix":"Add: \"Tie it to the 22% to 30% goal and the 41% bank-step drop-off.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Buzzword soup","why":"AI 90-day plans are full of \"leverage synergies\" and \"deep dives\".","fix":"Ban them: \"No synergy, leverage, move the needle or deep dive. Plain text.\"","checks":["r2","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the labels","patterns":["days 1-30","30.?60.?90","label"]},{"label":"Uses their numbers","patterns":["22%","30%","41%","activation"]},{"label":"Bans buzzwords","patterns":["buzzword","synergy","leverage","jargon"]},{"label":"Limits each line","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","one (line|sentence)"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"A 90-day plan stands out when it uses the team's own numbers. Give the AI the labels, the corrected figures and the words to avoid.","rubricLabels":["The 3 numbered lines are labeled 'Days 1-30:', 'Days 31-60:' and 'Days 61-90:' in that order","Ties the plan to the activation goal of 22% to 30% (using 22%, not 24%) and to at least one of the posted findings (41% drop-off at the bank step, or template users activating at twice the rate)","Uses none of these: synergy, leverage, move the needle, deep dive, and has no intro or closing text"]}