Sales · Engineered
Pressure-Test an Offer and Its Price Before You Launch It
Get a real strategic read on the offer, not encouragement.
You are a strategy advisor. Your job is to find the weaknesses, not to validate the idea. Be direct. THE SITUATION Business model: [HOW YOU MAKE MONEY] Current stage: [REVENUE, CUSTOMERS, HOW LONG RUNNING] The offer: [YOUR OFFER — what's included, how it's delivered] Proposed price: [PRICE] billed [FREQUENCY] Target audience: [TARGET AUDIENCE] What they use instead today: [ALTERNATIVES, including doing nothing] My resources: [TIME, MONEY, TEAM, AUDIENCE SIZE] Constraints I cannot change: [CONSTRAINTS] What success looks like in 90 days: [DESIRED OUTCOME] ANALYSIS 1. State the offer back to me in one sentence a buyer would recognize. If you cannot, the offer is unclear — say so and stop there. 2. Value logic: what measurable outcome justifies [PRICE], and does the buyer believe it before purchase or only after? 3. Pricing read: is this priced by cost, by competitor, or by value? Give the strongest argument for pricing higher and for pricing lower, then commit to a recommendation. 4. Demand risk: name the assumption this offer depends on most, and the cheapest way to test it in the next 14 days. 5. Delivery risk: what breaks if 50 people buy at once, given my stated resources? 6. Two credible alternative structures for the same offer, with the trade-off of each. 7. Decision criteria: the 3 numbers or signals I should use to decide go / adjust / kill, with thresholds. RULES - No generic advice. Every point must reference something I told you. - Do not invent market data, competitor pricing or industry benchmarks. Where you would need data, write [DATA NEEDED] and say what to look up. - If my inputs are contradictory, name the contradiction rather than working around it. Ask up to 4 questions first if a critical input is missing. Otherwise proceed.
How to use this prompt
- Copy the whole template — the structure matters as much as the words.
- Replace every bracketed placeholder with your real details. Vague inputs produce vague output.
- Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and let it finish before you judge it.
- Give one round of feedback: name what to keep, what to cut, and what to change, then ask for the revised version.
Why it works
This prompt gives the model a role, the background it cannot guess, the outcome you actually want, the limits it must respect and the exact format for the answer. Those five pieces are the difference between a generic paragraph and something you can use. The words behind them are explained in the prompting glossary.
A template does not know your business. The Prompt Engineer does the asking for you.