Define a 90-day success statement and minimum measurement architecture before design starts.

Program owners and L&D teams scoping new work.

  • Requester ask
  • Audience
  • Workflow
  • Business reason
  • Available evidence
[request][audience][workflow][business reason][available evidence]

Pick the version for the tool you are using.

The same work standard appears in every version: source grounding, constraints, requested output, and human review.

ChatGPT GPT-5.5

ChatGPT version

Use an outcome-first structure. Give ChatGPT the role, goal, approved source notes, constraints, and exact output you want back.

I am using Build The System for L&D systems work.

Prompt: Pre-Design Outcome Definition

Goal: Define a 90-day success statement and minimum measurement architecture before design starts.

Audience: Program owners and L&D teams scoping new work.

Source material I will provide:
- Requester ask
- Audience
- Workflow
- Business reason
- Available evidence

Inputs to use: [request], [audience], [workflow], [business reason], [available evidence]

Working notes:
- request: [add request]
- audience: [add audience]
- workflow: [add workflow]
- business reason: [add business reason]
- available evidence: [add available evidence]

Rules:
- Use only approved source material.
- Do not invent policy, compliance, learner, employee, customer, financial, or business facts.
- Do not paste sensitive, confidential, employee, learner, customer, or proprietary data into an AI tool unless your organization has approved that tool for that data.
- Treat AI output as a draft that needs human review.

Return:
1. Clarifying sponsor questions
2. 90-day success statement
3. Minimum measurement architecture
4. Decision the evidence should support

Human review checklist:
- Does the output stay inside the source material?
- Are assumptions and missing information labeled?
- Is there a clear human owner for the final decision?
- Does the output need legal, compliance, privacy, accessibility, leader, requester, or SME review?
  1. Clarifying sponsor questions
  2. 90-day success statement
  3. Minimum measurement architecture
  4. Decision the evidence should support
  • Does the output stay inside the source material?
  • Are assumptions and missing information labeled?
  • Is there a clear human owner for the final decision?
  • Does the output need legal, compliance, privacy, accessibility, leader, requester, or SME review?