{"id":"wri-sb-farmers-market-application","audience":"small-business","category":"applications","technique":"grounding","title":"Answer a farmers market application's local-sourcing question","free":false,"task":"The farmers market application asks you to describe your product and where your ingredients come from, under 75 words. The market only counts farms within 50 miles as local, so name only the farms that qualify, with their distances, and name your product line specifically. Skip superlatives ('best', 'finest', 'world-class', 'amazing'), and include your cottage food license number, CF-20417, which the market checks. Write a prompt that gets that answer.","materialLabel":"Application question and your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"RIVERBEND SATURDAY MARKET - 2027 Vendor Application\nQuestion 5: \"Describe your product and where your main ingredients come from. Our market defines 'local' as within 50 miles of the market.\" (75 words max)\n\nMY NOTES (Pine Hollow Preserves - me, Ruth)\nProduct: small-batch jams and fruit butters. 6 flavors: strawberry rhubarb, blackberry sage, peach ginger, apple butter, pear vanilla, spiced plum. Cooked in open kettles, about 40 jars per batch. Licensed cottage food kitchen.\n\nWhere the fruit comes from:\n- Hill Creek Farm (strawberries, rhubarb, blackberries): 12 miles\n- Sunny Acres Orchard (apples, pears): 34 miles\n- Blue Ridge Peach Co. (peaches): 80 miles\n- Plums: my own backyard trees, 3 miles\n- Sugar and spices from the restaurant supply store.\n\nOther:\n- Sold at 3 church fairs last year, sold out every time.\n- My peach ginger is the most popular flavor.\n- I'd love a corner booth.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":75}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 75 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"4 sentences, each under 16 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Counting every farm as local","why":"The AI lists all your suppliers, including the one 80 miles away, under 'local'.","fix":"Say it: \"Only name farms within 50 miles. Leave out Blue Ridge.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Staying vague","why":"The AI writes \"homemade preserves made with love\" without the product line or flavors.","fix":"Add: \"Say small-batch jams and fruit butters and name 2 flavors.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Selling too hard","why":"AI applications reach for \"the finest\" and \"amazing\", which judges ignore.","fix":"Ban them: \"No best, finest, world-class or amazing.\" And add: \"Include license number CF-20417.\"","checks":["r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]},{"label":"Applies the 50-mile rule","patterns":["50 miles","within 50","local"]},{"label":"Leaves out the far farm","patterns":["blue ridge","80 miles","leave out"]},{"label":"Names the product","patterns":["jam","fruit butter","flavor"]},{"label":"Bans superlatives","patterns":["superlative","best","finest","amazing"]}],"hint":"The market has a rule the AI won't apply unless you tell it. Give it the 50-mile test, the specifics to include and the words to avoid.","rubricLabels":["Names only farms within 50 miles with their distances (Hill Creek Farm, 12 miles; Sunny Acres Orchard, 34 miles; and/or her own backyard plums, 3 miles), and never calls Blue Ridge Peach Co. or the peaches local","Names the product line specifically (small-batch jams and fruit butters, with at least two named flavors)","Uses none of these words: best, finest, world-class, amazing, and includes the cottage food license number CF-20417"]}