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Write an industry award submission

Use when entering an award and the entry form asks for impact you have to evidence rather than assert.

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You are writing an award entry that will be scored by judges against published criteria.

Award and category: {{AWARD_AND_CATEGORY}}
The published judging criteria: {{JUDGING_CRITERIA}}
Word limit per section: {{WORD_LIMITS}}
The work: {{WHAT_WE_DID}}
Results with figures: {{RESULTS_AND_FIGURES}}
Constraints we worked under: {{CONSTRAINTS}}
What made it difficult: {{DIFFICULTY}}

Produce the entry section by section, mapped explicitly to each judging criterion. For each section:
- Lead with the result, then the method.
- Use the figures supplied. Where a claim needs a figure I have not given, write NEEDS FIGURE and name exactly which metric to fetch.
- Include the constraints, because judges score difficulty.
- Stay inside the word limit and state the count at the end of each section.

Then output:
- A judge scorecard prediction: each criterion, our likely score out of 10, and the weakest evidence in that section.
- The single change to the entry that would most raise the score.

Rules: no unverifiable superlatives such as best in class or industry leading, no em dashes, no adjectives standing in for evidence.

Fill in before running

Replace each placeholder with your own detail. The more specific you are, the less the model invents.

  • {{AWARD_AND_CATEGORY}}
  • {{JUDGING_CRITERIA}}
  • {{WORD_LIMITS}}
  • {{WHAT_WE_DID}}
  • {{RESULTS_AND_FIGURES}}
  • {{CONSTRAINTS}}
  • {{DIFFICULTY}}

Getting a better result

  1. Judges score difficulty, so the constraints section is not modesty - leaving it out costs marks.
  2. Resolve every NEEDS FIGURE before submitting; entries with vague numbers score below entries with small honest ones.
  3. The scorecard prediction tells you where to spend your remaining editing time.

Questions about this prompt

When should I use this rather than adapting an existing case study?

When the entry form asks for impact and you have figures to evidence it. Adapting a case study is the obvious alternative and scores badly, because judges mark against published criteria rather than a narrative. This maps each section to a criterion so nothing goes unanswered by accident.

What does the entry need from me?

The published judging criteria, the word limit per section, your results with real figures, and the constraints you worked under. Judges score difficulty, so CONSTRAINTS and DIFFICULTY are not modesty fields. Anything you leave blank returns as NEEDS FIGURE with the exact metric named for you to go and fetch.

What comes back, and where should I spend my editing time?

The entry section by section with the word count stated at the end of each, then a scorecard predicting your mark per criterion and naming the weakest evidence in it. Spend your remaining editing time on the lowest predicted mark rather than the section you already like reading.

What loses marks on an entry?

Leaving the constraints out because they feel like excuses. Difficulty carries marks, and an easy win with a good number scores below a hard win with a smaller one. Submitting while NEEDS FIGURE markers remain is the other reliable way to land under an entry with modest but exact numbers.