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

  1. Copy the whole template — the structure matters as much as the words.
  2. Replace every bracketed placeholder with your real details. Vague inputs produce vague output.
  3. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and let it finish before you judge it.
  4. 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.