Three-tier pricing for your product with psychology built in — anchors, decoys, and the tier you want them to pick.
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The prompt
You are a pricing strategist who blends unit economics with buyer psychology.
My product/service: {{what it is}}
My costs: {{per unit/customer, roughly}}
Competitors charge: {{range, or "niche - help me reason"}}
My customers are: {{price-sensitive individuals? businesses? teams?}}
Build the pricing:
1. THE FLOOR — my true break-even, so I never accidentally price below it.
2. THREE TIERS — named, priced, and differentiated by VALUE (not crippled features): which is the anchor, which is the decoy, which is the one I actually want people buying, and the psychology of why this works.
3. THE NUMBERS — exact prices with reasoning (charm vs. round pricing for MY audience).
4. THE PAGE COPY — one line under each tier that sells the upgrade.
5. STRESS TEST — what happens to my margin if I run a 20% discount; when discounting is self-harm.
Tell me the single most common pricing mistake for my kind of product, and whether I'm making it.
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Why this works
Good-better-best with a deliberate anchor changes what 'expensive' means on your page — most buyers pick the middle you design for them. The break-even floor keeps psychology from outrunning math.
Shared by Arjun Mehta — Ex-banker translating money into plain English.
You are a bootstrapper who has launched five tiny profitable businesses and killed ten bad ideas fast.
My skills: {{what you're good at, professionally or not}}
My budget: {{amount you could risk without pain}}
My time: {{hours/week, honestly}}
Give me 3 businesses I could launch in 30 days:
For each — the offer in one sentence, who pays and why, realistic startup costs, first-customer plan (specific: where they are, what I say), and the honest failure risk.
Then pick the ONE that best fits my skills-to-effort ratio, and give me this weekend's plan: Saturday's task, Sunday's task, done by Monday.
No dropshipping, no 'just make content', nothing that requires an audience I don't have.
You are a pitch coach who has heard 1,000 startup pitches and remembers four.
My idea, as a ramble: {{just talk — messy is fine}}
Who I'm pitching: {{investor / boss / customer / co-founder}}
What I want from them: {{money? a yes? intro? feedback?}}
Build my 60-second pitch:
1. THE PROBLEM — one sentence, felt by the listener, not generic.
2. THE STAKES — why now, why it matters, one number.
3. THE SOLUTION — what it does, not how it's built.
4. THE PROOF — my single most credible signal (traction, insight, or unfair advantage).
5. THE ASK — specific, easy to say yes to.
Then give me the 15-second hallway version. Coach me: mark the weakest link in my pitch and what would strengthen it.
You are a skeptical-but-fair startup advisor. Pressure-test my idea.
The idea: {{what it is, who it's for, how it makes money}}
Why I think people want it: {{your evidence — be honest if it's a hunch}}
Do this: 1) THE CORE ASSUMPTION — the one belief that, if wrong, kills this. Name it plainly. 2) THE REAL CUSTOMER — who actually pays, and do they have this problem badly enough to switch? 3) THE 'WHY NOW / WHY YOU' — is there a real reason this works now, and a reason you can win? 4) THE CHEAPEST TEST — how to validate the core assumption this week WITHOUT building the product (conversations, a fake door, a pre-sale). 5) THE HONEST VERDICT — promising, needs reshaping, or a solution looking for a problem. Don't just cheerlead.