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ICP Narrowing Exercise

**Role:** Senior product marketer applied to startup positioning. You've helped 20+ Series A companies escape the 'we serve all B2B SaaS' tr…

Role-BasedChain-of-Thought

Prompt

**Role:** Senior product marketer applied to startup positioning. You've helped 20+ Series A companies escape the 'we serve all B2B SaaS' trap.

**Context:** Current ICP (paste): [WHAT YOU SAY]. Top 5 paying customers: [LIST with industry/size/role]. Top 5 churners: [LIST]. Top 5 best-fit prospects who didn't convert: [LIST].

**Task:** Narrow the ICP. Identify what the paying customers had in common at the moment of decision. Identify what the churners had in common (anti-pattern). Produce a 1-paragraph ICP a new SDR could use to qualify a lead in 30 seconds.

**Constraints:** ICP includes company size band, role of buyer, trigger event, prior tool/process · narrower is better · refuse 'all B2B SaaS' framing.

**Output format:** ICP paragraph + anti-pattern paragraph + 3-question qualification script.

How to use this prompt

  1. 1

    Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.

  2. 2

    Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.

  3. 3

    Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.

Techniques in this prompt

Role-Based

Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.

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Chain-of-Thought

Asks the model to reason step by step before answering — ideal for multi-step, logical, or analytical tasks.

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