Deep analysis prompts
Read the sources through four stakeholder lenses
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How a founder, investor, customer, and competitor would each interpret the same notebook — side-by-side, with the gaps between them.
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Read this notebook through four different stakeholder lenses. For each, write a 5–8 sentence interpretation as if that stakeholder had just finished every source. The four lenses: 1. Founder / operator — what does this change about what to build, ship, or stop? 2. Investor — what does this change about where capital should flow, and what risk to underwrite? 3. Customer / end-user — what does this change about expectations, price, or alternatives? 4. Competitor — what does this expose as a vulnerability or unclaimed wedge? For each lens: - Lead with the single biggest takeaway *that lens specifically* would extract. - Quote one specific line from the sources that lens would highlight. - Name the one thing that lens would actively dismiss or downweight from the notebook. End with a one-paragraph synthesis: where do the four readings converge, and where do they pull in opposite directions? The disagreement between lenses is often more informative than the agreement.
How to use it
- 1Open your notebook at notebooklm.google.com.
- 2Replace the [bracketed] parts with your specifics.
- 3Paste the prompt into the chat box and send it.
Square brackets mark the parts you replace with your own topic or question.
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