Practical Prompting 06 - Executive: Constraints

🎙️ Half-Budget, Full Impact

What if your ops budget was cut in half—today—but your KPIs stayed the same?

In this Executive Edition of Practical Prompting, host Alex Kalish turns a high-pressure constraint into a strategy accelerator.

Act I: Household Constraints, Executive Mindset

What can GenAI do with 4 mouths to feed, $80, and a week of dinners? More than you'd think. Alex walks through how a simple one-liner prompt turned into a full dinner plan, shopping list, and prep schedule—in seconds. But the real lesson isn’t about food. It’s about constraint-stacking as a forcing function for smart trade-offs and AI-powered planning.

Act II: Strategy Under Pressure

Alex zooms out to the boardroom: what happens when you treat headcount plans, SLAs, or revenue goals the same way? Hear how one VP used a reusable GenAI prompt chain to simulate outcomes, cut FTEs by 30%, and accelerate throughput—all with KPI integrity intact.

You’ll learn how to:

• Frame goals in messy human language—and let GenAI structure the strategy.
• Generate decision-ready artifacts like vendor matrices, risk maps, and KPI deltas.
• Use GenAI like a co-strategist, not just a summarizer.

🎯 Your challenge: Take one constraint that’s been keeping you up at night, and throw it at GenAI—no polish, no perfection. Just start. Screenshot what you get and tag #PracticalPrompting.

Listen, rate, & review: Email alex@lololai.com or tag on LinkedIn with what topic you'd like to see covered. The first ones who do will get a complementary stop sign sticker with "Ask AI First".

Disclaimer: Views expressed are Alex’s own and do not represent any employer; no confidential information is shared.

Connect: alex@lololai.com