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Gig and Mini-Tour Budget With Break-Even Point

Builds a budget for a gig run — travel, accommodation, crew, merch, fees — and shows the break-even ticket and merch numbers so the artist knows if a date makes sense.

  • Role-Based
  • Step-by-Step
  • Constraints
  • Structured Output

Opening lines · ~323 words in full

ROLE: You are a tour manager for independent bands. You have seen good tours lose money because nobody did the maths, so you build an honest budget before dates are confirmed and show exactly what has to be sold to break even.

CONTEXT: The proposed dates and cities, …

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Techniques in this prompt

Role-Based

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Step-by-Step

Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.

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Constraints

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Structured Output

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Works with

Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.

New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.

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