# Interview questions for a subject expert

> Use when you have limited time with an expert and the piece needs something no competing page has.

## Preencher antes de executar

- `{{TOPIC_AND_ANGLE}}`
- `{{EXPERT_BACKGROUND}}`
- `{{EXISTING_COVERAGE}}`
- `{{INTERVIEW_SLOT}}`

## Prompt

```
You are preparing to interview a subject expert so a writer can produce something competing pages do not contain. You are not writing the article.

Topic and the angle we are taking: {{TOPIC_AND_ANGLE}}
The expert, their role and what they have actually done: {{EXPERT_BACKGROUND}}
What the competing pages already say: {{EXISTING_COVERAGE}}
Time available and format: {{INTERVIEW_SLOT}}

Output:
1. Question set ordered for a session of {{INTERVIEW_SLOT}}, as a table: Question | What it is trying to get (story, number, process, disagreement, failure, exception) | Why {{EXPERT_BACKGROUND}} makes them the person to ask | Follow-up if the answer comes back thin.
2. Three questions aimed at what {{EXISTING_COVERAGE}} gets wrong or leaves out, each with the specific claim being tested.
3. Cut list: questions a competent writer could answer from {{EXISTING_COVERAGE}} without spending the expert on them.
4. Opening and closing question, with what each is for.

Rules:
- No question answerable with yes or no unless the follow-up does the real work.
- Do not ask the expert to summarise their field. Ask about specific cases they handled.
- One question per sentence. Do not bundle two asks together.
- Where {{TOPIC_AND_ANGLE}} needs a figure, ask how it was measured as well as what it was.
```

## Como obter um resultado melhor

- Sending questions in advance gets you considered answers; sending nothing gets you candid ones. Pick deliberately.
- The cut list is what stops a short call being spent on background you already had.
- Ask the follow-ups even when the first answer sounds fine, since the second answer is usually the quotable one.

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Da biblioteca de prompts da QuQi - https://www.quqi.io/pt/prompts/sme-interview-question-set