Numbers from the reports, nowhere else
Lesson 3 of 6 · The Monday Dashboard
1 · Learn the move · Verified-data override
AI will fill an empty cell. It will carry last week's number forward, average two figures that shouldn't be averaged, and round 47 to about 50 because it reads better. Every one of those becomes a number your executive repeats in a meeting. The override rule: the pasted reports are the only source of any figure on the page, every figure carries the report it came from, and anything the reports don't state renders [NEEDS: ...], never an estimate, never a carry-forward, never a roughly. Three honest blanks make a usable dashboard. Three invented numbers make a trap that goes off later.
You are compiling my dashboard from the reports pasted below. Every number in your output comes from those reports and carries a tag saying which one. No carry-forwards, no averages I didn't ask for, no rounding, no approximately. Any figure the reports don't state renders [NEEDS: figure from <department>]. If two reports disagree, print both with tags and flag CONFLICT, don't pick one. [reports]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Last Monday's dashboard showed 94% on-time and your executive quoted it to the board. Nobody can find where 94 came from. The operations report says 47 of 51 visits, which is 92. Write a prompt that makes every number on this week's dashboard traceable to the report it came from.
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.