Build your company's estimating master prompt
Lesson 3 of 7 · Compliance & safe AI use
1 · Learn the move · Flipped interaction
Flip the game: have the model interview you about your markup policy, what you will never price without seeing it, and the exclusions your contract depends on - then write the master prompt you paste before any estimate, so it knows your rules from message one. Ten minutes once, and no more invented unit prices.
I want to build my estimating master prompt. Interview me one question at a time about my markup and margin policy, what I never price without a site visit, and the exclusions my contract requires. Keep going until you have enough, then write the master prompt I paste before any estimating task. Ask the first question.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You retype the same 'my numbers only, no invented unit prices, mark every unknown' on every estimate. Write a prompt that interviews you once and produces a reusable standards block.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.