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AI Opportunity Scan

Where an LLM feature genuinely earns its place — automation, drafting, summarization — and where it would be a gimmick.

AI-IDEAS.md4 phases6 lenses~2.6k chars

Free & open · no signup · read-only — it ends by asking · nothing leaves your machine

What it does

You are working inside this repo. Mission: find where an AI feature would genuinely earn its place in this product — and just as importantly, where it would be a gimmick.

Read-only pass. Your only write is the report file.

What it looks for

6 lenses it looks through

Phase 2 sweeps the codebase through every one of these, citing file and line for each finding.

1

Automate toil

multi-step chores collapsible into one reviewed action

2

Draft generation

content, replies, configs, names, summaries the user currently writes from scratch

3

Summarize their own data

turning accumulated user data into insight ("your week", "what changed")

4

Natural-language input

search, filters, or commands where typing intent beats clicking through UI

5

Triage & classification

sorting, tagging, routing, prioritizing that users do manually

6

Anti-pattern check

proposed AI that adds latency, cost, or wrongness where a rule or a button would do; name these explicitly

The deliverable

What lands in your repo

One structured report at the repo root — or in reports/, if you keep one — the same shape every time, ready for a teammate — or the optional Studio — to act on.

AI-IDEAS.md
1
Raw material summary
the data and toil this product actually has
2
Ideas
each with the five answers above, plus value and feasibility ratings
3
Value × feasibility ranking
4. Gimmick list — rejected ideas and why (this list protects the roadmap)
4
Prototype-this-week pick
one idea, scoped to a day
One file. Evidence-backed. It ends by asking before touching anything.
How it works

What it makes the agent do

Every Goal Prompt follows the same four steps, so results are consistent and repeatable — no matter which one you run.

1
Phase 1

Inventory the raw material

What data does this product hold.

2
Phase 2

Scan through 6 lenses

Automate toil — multi-step chores collapsible into one reviewed action.

3
Phase 3

Curate

For each surviving idea, answer all five.

4
Phase 4

Report

Create AI-IDEAS.md at repo root.

Get started

Three ways to run this Goal Prompt

01 · COPY

Paste it in

Copy it and paste it into your agent inside the repo you want checked.

02 · INSTALL

As a slash command

Install the goal plugin once — two commands — then just type /goal:ai-opportunity-scan.

1/plugin marketplace add GhostlyGawd/goal-prompts
2/plugin install goal@goal-prompts

Or install only this Goal Prompt as /goal-ai-opportunity-scan:

curl -fsSL https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/install | BRIEF=12 sh
03 · AGENT

From an agent (MCP)

Let an agent fetch it mid-conversation, or pull the raw Goal Prompt by URL.

https://goal-prompts.vercel.app/raw/12.md
Transparency

The exact prompt

Nothing hidden — this is the whole Goal Prompt, verbatim. Read it in a minute, edit it, or copy it as-is.

Read the full brief (2,625 characters)
# Goal: AI Opportunity Scan

You are working inside this repo. Mission: find where an AI feature would genuinely earn its place in this product — and just as importantly, where it would be a gimmick. 

Read-only pass. Your only write is the report file.

## Phase 1 — Inventory the raw material
- What data does this product hold: text, images, events, structured records? Where does it accumulate?
- What tedious multi-step tasks do users repeat? (trace the flows)
- Where do users make judgment calls the product could draft for them?

## Phase 2 — Scan through 6 lenses
1. **Automate toil** — multi-step chores collapsible into one reviewed action
2. **Draft generation** — content, replies, configs, names, summaries the user currently writes from scratch
3. **Summarize their own data** — turning accumulated user data into insight ("your week", "what changed")
4. **Natural-language input** — search, filters, or commands where typing intent beats clicking through UI
5. **Triage & classification** — sorting, tagging, routing, prioritizing that users do manually
6. **Anti-pattern check** — proposed AI that adds latency, cost, or wrongness where a rule or a button would do; name these explicitly

## Phase 3 — Curate
For each surviving idea, answer all five:
- The user moment it improves (specific screen/flow)
- Data it needs — have it vs must collect it
- Failure mode — what happens when the model is wrong, and the fallback
- Cost & latency — rough call volume and tolerance
- Build shape — prompt-only, RAG over user data, or fine-grained tool use

## Phase 4 — Report
Create `AI-IDEAS.md` at repo root:
1. **Raw material summary** — the data and toil this product actually has
2. **Ideas** — each with the five answers above, plus value and feasibility ratings
3. **Value × feasibility ranking**
4. **Gimmick list** — rejected ideas and why (this list protects the roadmap)
5. **Prototype-this-week pick** — one idea, scoped to a day

Start the report with today's date. If `AI-IDEAS.md` already exists from a previous run, read it first and lead with what changed since.

## Rules
- AI must beat the boring alternative (a rule, a default, a button) — prove it per idea
- Wrong-answer handling is part of the feature, not an afterthought
- No product surface to scan for AI opportunities in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
- If a `reports/` directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
- Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
- Report only — end by asking which idea to prototype

House rules for this Goal Prompt

  • AI must beat the boring alternative (a rule, a default, a button) — prove it per idea
  • Wrong-answer handling is part of the feature, not an afterthought
  • No product surface to scan for AI opportunities in this repo? Say so in a one-paragraph null report and stop — a null result is a valid finding.
  • If a reports/ directory exists at the repo root, write the report there instead of the root.
  • Before asking, present the top findings as a ranked list in plain words
  • Report only — end by asking which idea to prototype
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