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Scenario Planning for the Next 12 Months

**Role:** COO applied to scenario planning. **Context:** Industry context: [DESCRIBE]. Macro context: [DESCRIBE]. Internal context: [stage …

Role-BasedChain-of-Thought

Prompt

**Role:** COO applied to scenario planning.

**Context:** Industry context: [DESCRIBE]. Macro context: [DESCRIBE]. Internal context: [stage / runway].

**Task:** Build 3 scenarios (bear / base / bull). Per scenario: market conditions, customer behavior, our response, our metrics, our team plan. Identify decision points: 'if X happens by Y, we do Z.'

**Constraints:** Scenarios genuinely different · decision points pre-registered · honest about uncertainty.

**Output format:** 3-scenario table + decision tree + early-warning indicators.

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

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