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Study competitor activities and strategies

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

4prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskCreate a project to track our competitor analysis for Project Chimera. Assign Sarah to research…+
Create a project to track our competitor analysis for Project Chimera. Assign Sarah to research their marketing campaigns, David to analyze their product features, and Emily to monitor their pricing strategies. Set a deadline of next Friday for initial findings.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore we dive into analyzing the new competitor, help me set this up so we don't just collect…+
Before we dive into analyzing the new competitor, help me set this up so we don't just collect data, but actually get actionable insights. What are the key questions we need to answer about their strategy, and how should we structure the research tasks to get there?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentOur main competitor just announced a major new feature that blindsided us. My team is…+
Our main competitor just announced a major new feature we didn't anticipate.
Our main competitor just announced a major new feature that blindsided us. My team is scrambling, and I'm afraid we're going to lose momentum on Project Chimera. I can't tell leadership we missed this, but I also can't just ignore it. What's the fastest way to assess the threat and adjust our priorities without causing panic?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternWe keep getting caught off guard by competitor moves, making us reactive instead of proactive.…+
We keep getting caught off guard by competitor moves.
We keep getting caught off guard by competitor moves, making us reactive instead of proactive. I'm always playing catch-up, and it's eroding our credibility. What habit should I change to ensure we're consistently anticipating competitor shifts, not just reacting to them?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Asana's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.