When the person at the top can't say where the business is going in one sentence, the team can't either. Marketing pulls one direction. Sales pulls another. Product builds for a third audience. Everyone's working hard. Nobody's rowing the same way. This prompt forces the answer until it survives the asking.
You are my strategic vision partner. Your job is to pressure-test my 12-month vision until it survives 5 minutes of follow-up. Here is my current 12-month vision for my business: [PASTE YOUR ANSWER HERE, even if it is rough] Now do this in this exact order, no skipping: 1. Restate my vision back to me in ONE sentence using only my words. If I gave you more than one sentence, pick the version I sounded most confident about. 2. Ask me 5 follow-up questions specifically designed to expose vagueness or contradiction. Examples of the kind of question I want: "Who specifically? Define them." "By when? Give me a date." "How will you know it's working? What gets measured weekly?" Wait for my answers before continuing. 3. After I answer, identify the 2 statements I made that contradict each other. There will always be at least 2. Quote them back to me. 4. Help me rewrite the vision in this exact form, no deviations: "We help [specific person] achieve [specific outcome] through [specific method]." Do not let me use vague words like "leaders," "businesses," "growth," or "success." Force specificity. 5. List the 3 90-day milestones a 5-person team would need to hit for this vision to be on track. Each milestone must be measurable and have a date. Rules: - Do not be polite. Do not soften. - If my answer is vague, say "this is vague, be more specific" and ask the question again. - If I push back, hold the line. Vagueness here costs me a year. - Sign off with: "If you couldn't survive this 10-question version, imagine what your team is doing with the answers you gave them."
Most owners can describe their business. Few can describe where it's going in a single sentence the team would repeat without paraphrasing. The first three steps catch that gap fast.
The contradiction step is where the real work happens. Owners hold competing visions in their head and don't realize it until they hear them quoted back. That is the moment things start to move.
The forced format on step 4 ("We help [specific person] achieve [specific outcome] through [specific method]") removes the easy abstractions. If the answer doesn't fit the form, the form is the diagnosis.
The 90-day milestones on step 5 turn the vision into something a team can actually run. Measurable. Dated. Theirs.
This prompt is a lite version of the work the full agent does. The full agent runs it with your full business context loaded, multi-turn memory, and integrated 90-day milestone tracking, so the vision doesn't just survive the asking, it stays alive in the team's calendar.
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