# Decision making prompts

> 14 bides on decision making, each with the result it produced.

- [Break a Project You Keep Avoiding Into Three Tiny First Actions](https://promptabide.com/bides/break-avoided-project-into-three-tiny-actions) — Anyone with a project stuck for weeks or months (taxes, portfolio, applications, a hard email) who needs momentum, not a bigger plan.
- [Decision Journal Entry With Criteria Locked Before You Choose](https://promptabide.com/bides/decision-journal-entry-with-precommitted-criteria) — Anyone facing a job move, hire, purchase or strategy call who wants a written record they can check their judgment against later.
- [Compare Two Options With a Weighted Decision Matrix](https://promptabide.com/bides/compare-two-options-with-a-weighted-decision-matrix) — Anyone stuck between two jobs, suppliers, tools or houses who wants their reasoning written down and tested, not just a verdict.
- [Steelman Both Sides of a Debate Before You Pick One](https://promptabide.com/bides/steelman-both-sides-of-a-debate) — Managers making a policy call, students preparing a debate or essay, and anyone who suspects they've only heard one side of an argument.
- [Run a Pre-Mortem on a Project Before It Starts](https://promptabide.com/bides/run-a-pre-mortem-on-a-project-before-kickoff) — Project leads and small-business owners about to start a migration, launch or rollout who want to find the likely failure points first.
- [Map an Article's Claims Against the Evidence It Gives](https://promptabide.com/bides/map-an-articles-claims-against-its-evidence) — Students, journalists, analysts and anyone about to cite, share or act on an opinion piece, report or LinkedIn post that sounds convincing.
- [Friday Weekly Review That Builds Next Week's Plan With Real Math](https://promptabide.com/bides/friday-weekly-review-and-next-week-plan) — Freelancers, managers and anyone juggling several clients or projects who wants a weekly reset that respects the hours they actually have.
- [Pressure-Test a Startup Idea and Set Kill Criteria](https://promptabide.com/bides/pressure-test-a-startup-idea-with-kill-criteria) — Founders and side-project builders deciding whether an idea deserves the next three months, before they write code or quit anything.
- [Decode a job ad: real requirements, red flags and fit](https://promptabide.com/bides/decode-a-job-ad-red-flags-real-requirements) — Job seekers deciding whether an application is worth their time, especially for vague postings or roles that seem to bundle several jobs…
- [Salary negotiation script with a clear walk-away point](https://promptabide.com/bides/salary-negotiation-script-with-walk-away-point) — Anyone holding a written or verbal offer who wants to ask for more without bluffing, and needs words for the call, not just negotiation…
- [Write Inbox Triage Rules From a Sample of Your Own Email](https://promptabide.com/bides/write-inbox-triage-rules-from-sample-email) — Managers, ops and support leads drowning in mixed email who want filters and rules that fit their actual inbox, not inbox-zero theory.
- [Write Survey Questions That Don't Lead the Respondent](https://promptabide.com/bides/write-unbiased-survey-questions-with-a-bias-check) — Managers, founders, researchers and HR teams writing a quick internal or customer survey who want answers that aren't shaped by the wording.
- [Prioritise a Feature Backlog With RICE and Stated Assumptions](https://promptabide.com/bides/prioritise-a-feature-backlog-with-rice-scoring) — Product managers and founders facing a noisy backlog who want a defensible order and a clear list of what to verify before committing.
- [Compare two coding agents' attempts at the same task and pick one](https://promptabide.com/bides/compare-two-coding-agent-attempts) — Developers who run the same task through two agents or two attempts (best-of-n) and need a fair, fast way to choose.

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