Productivity
Beginner
20 min
The eight-part prompt — Role, Context, Objective, Task, Constraints, Data, Output, Quality
The problem
You write write a follow-up email to a client who hasn't replied. You get a competent, forgettable email that could be from anyone to anyone. You edit it heavily.
The workflow
1Role
2Context
3Objective
4Task
5Constraints
6Data
7Output
★Quality
What you need
Existing prompt: Write a follow-up email to a client who hasn't replied to my proposal. What I wanted: something that gets a reply, not something that sounds like every follow-up email.
The tool
Any assistant
The prompt
Subscribers. The full prompt is part of the SMEMinds AI Playbook. See plans.
What comes back
Diagnosis — six of eight parts are missing. ROLE absent → default generic business writer.
Verify before you use it
Human review required. Check every line below before this leaves your screen.
- Does the rewritten prompt use placeholders rather than invented details? If the model filled in a client name or a value, delete it — that is fabricated context and it will read as false to the recipient.
- Is the Objective an outcome rather than an artefact? 'Follow up' is not an objective; 'get a call this week' is.
- Is the Quality Bar specific enough to fail a draft? A bar that everything passes is not a bar.
- Is the Constraints section carrying the no-invention rule? For business use this line should be in every prompt you write.