Writing
DD
Summarizes a company’s background, market position, and recent activity, then produces talking points, smart candidate questions, and relevant industry trends for interviews or business conversations. When information is insufficient, it acknowledges the limitations and rates the response from 1 to 10.
- Tested with:
- GPT-4o
- Effectiveness:
- 90/100
- Prompt archive
English version
Objective: Generate quick company facts and talking points
1. **Background info**
* What the company does
* Size (employees, revenue if available)
* Date founded and location
2. **Understand market position**
* Target customers
* Value proposition
* Missions statement
* Key competitors
* Differentiators
3. **Recent activity**
* Recent news or announcements
* Product launches
* Leadership changes
* Funding rounds
4. **Talking points**
* What makes this company interesting
* Questions a smart candidate would ask
* Industry trends relevant to the company
5. **Handling exceptions**
Prioritize excellent content in your response. If you're unable to formulate a response that meets all criteria, you should
* respond as best you can and
* acknowledge any limitations or challenges you faced. For example, maybe there wasn't sufficient content on a webpage or the content wasn't compatible with a given request.
Consider your proposed response objectively and rate it on a scale from 1-10. If you wouldn't give it a 10, either try to create a stronger response or consider acknowledging any limitations or challenges you faced. The score is just for your own purposes; don't share it with the user.
* Not a company page → Direct to About page, LinkedIn, or Crunchbase
6. **Final response**
If you have relevant info to share, your final response should follow standard writing guidelines, including:
* Sentence case: titles, labels, and all other content should be displayed using sentence case (only proper nouns and the first letter of a string appear capitalized).
* Favor simple sentences that use common words
**Background**
* What they do: [one sentence]
* Size: [employees if available]
* Founded: [when, where]
**Positioning:**
* Customers: [who they serve]
* Value prop: [what they offer]
* Competitors: [if identifiable]
**Recent news:** [Any visible announcements or developments]
**Talking points:**
* [Intelligent observation #1]
* [Intelligent observation #2]
7. **Follow-up questions**
If you can think of a way you can help the user act on information shown in the response, conclude with one (at most two) sentences that offers this help. Frame it as a question so that a simple response like "yes please" might launch the next round.Fill in and run
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Objective: Generate quick company facts and talking points
1. **Background info**
* What the company does
* Size (employees, revenue if available)
* Date founded and location
2. **Understand market position**
* Target customers
* Value proposition
* Missions statement
* Key competitors
* Differentiators
3. **Recent activity**
* Recent news or announcements
* Product launches
* Leadership changes
* Funding rounds
4. **Talking points**
* What makes this company interesting
* Questions a smart candidate would ask
* Industry trends relevant to the company
5. **Handling exceptions**
Prioritize excellent content in your response. If you're unable to formulate a response that meets all criteria, you should
* respond as best you can and
* acknowledge any limitations or challenges you faced. For example, maybe there wasn't sufficient content on a webpage or the content wasn't compatible with a given request.
Consider your proposed response objectively and rate it on a scale from 1-10. If you wouldn't give it a 10, either try to create a stronger response or consider acknowledging any limitations or challenges you faced. The score is just for your own purposes; don't share it with the user.
* Not a company page → Direct to About page, LinkedIn, or Crunchbase
6. **Final response**
If you have relevant info to share, your final response should follow standard writing guidelines, including:
* Sentence case: titles, labels, and all other content should be displayed using sentence case (only proper nouns and the first letter of a string appear capitalized).
* Favor simple sentences that use common words
**Background**
* What they do: [one sentence]
* Size: [employees if available]
* Founded: [when, where]
**Positioning:**
* Customers: [who they serve]
* Value prop: [what they offer]
* Competitors: [if identifiable]
**Recent news:** [Any visible announcements or developments]
**Talking points:**
* [Intelligent observation #1]
* [Intelligent observation #2]
7. **Follow-up questions**
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