Prompt Templates
ChatGPT Prompts for Decision Making
These ChatGPT prompts for decision making help you compare options, surface risk, challenge assumptions, and make clearer choices faster.
Option comparison prompts
Compare these two options across cost, speed, risk, and long-term upside. Recommend one and explain the tradeoffs clearly.
The AI is more helpful when it has a decision framework to use.
Risk analysis prompts
Analyze this plan and identify the top three risks, hidden assumptions, and what would make the plan fail.
This helps move beyond optimism into more honest evaluation.
Priority prompts
Rank these five opportunities by expected impact, required effort, and strategic fit. Return the result as a table.
A ranking prompt creates clearer prioritization than a broad brainstorming request.
Pros and cons prompts
List the pros, cons, unknowns, and second-order effects of this decision. End with the most important unanswered question.
It helps capture uncertainty before action is taken.
Recommendation prompts
Given this context and these constraints, tell me what decision you would recommend, why, and what I should validate first.
This keeps the recommendation grounded in context and next steps.
