The grounded prompt skeleton
Lesson 1 of 8 · Compliance & safe AI use
1 · Learn the move · RTO. Role · Task · Output
The one structure under every defensible deal prompt: Role, Context, Task, Constraints, Output, Examples. With grounding baked into Constraints every time: work only from the facts provided, trace every number to an input, mark gaps UNKNOWN. Six brackets to fill. Everything else here is this skeleton, practiced to reflex.
ROLE: You are a [specific CRE expert]. CONTEXT: [The asset, the audience, the document.] TASK: [The one concrete thing to produce.] CONSTRAINTS: [Length, tone, AND the grounding rules: only the facts I pasted, every figure traced to an input or labeled an assumption, gaps marked UNKNOWN, never filled.] OUTPUT: [Abstract / memo / email / analysis.] EXAMPLES: [One grounded sample, if you have one.]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Take a deal task you handed AI this week without guardrails. A lease summary, an investor email, a quick property blurb. Rewrite the request using all six parts, with the grounding rules built into the constraints.
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.