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Priya's Thursday, two ways

9 lessons · 24 prompts

A day in the life of a Solutions Architect: what changes with these prompts.

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Priya, a solutions architect at a mid-sized software firm.

Priya starts Thursday with a client call about a regional retailer's order system. Notes are scattered across a notebook, a chat thread, and a two-page brief. She opens ChatGPT and uses the Requirements Discovery prompt, pastes the messy notes, and asks for clear requirements, assumptions, and open questions. The draft gives her a structure she can fix in a short pass instead of losing the morning.

Next she opens Claude for the Design Trade-Offs prompt. She describes two options: keep the legacy database with a new service layer, or move to a cloud warehouse. She asks the AI to pressure-test uptime, support hours, and data migration effort. It names a hidden dependency she had not written down, so she adds it to the review notes.

After lunch she uses Gemini for Cost And Effort Estimation. She gives the rough scope, team rates, and a list of exclusions. The AI builds a first-pass cost model with assumptions she can check. Then she uses Stakeholder Communication to turn the design into a short update for the client sponsor, without acronyms.

By the end of the afternoon Priya has a requirements summary, a trade-off list, a cost draft, and a sponsor update ready for review. She closes her laptop and walks to the school pickup instead of rushing. The time won back goes to her daughter's football match and a calmer Friday review.

Before

  • Briefs stay messy in three tabs.
  • Design reviews start from blank pages.
  • Proposal drafts eat the evening.
  • Risks surface late in the week.

After this course

  • Clear requirements in one pass.
  • First drafts ready for review.
  • Trade-offs named before the meeting.
  • Sponsors hear plain updates.

What you'll learn

  • Requirements Discovery: Turn messy client notes and briefs into clear, structured requirements you can design against.
  • Architecture Design: Get a first draft of architecture options, diagrams, and decision records so you can refine rather than start from a blank page.
  • Design Trade-Offs: Pressure-test your design and spell out the non-functional targets before it goes into review.
  • Technical Proposals: Produce proposal sections that speak to the client's business, not just the technology.
  • Feasibility And Risk: Structure feasibility analysis and build a first-pass risk register for a proposed solution.
  • Cost And Effort: Build rough cost models and total-cost-of-ownership comparisons with clear assumptions and exclusions.
  • Implementation Planning: Break a solution into phases and produce the checklists that keep delivery on track.
  • Stakeholders And Pre-Sales: Explain designs to business audiences and speed up RFP responses and discovery call prep.

How this course works

  1. 9 lessonsOne task of your job each, from requirements discovery to pre-sales and admin.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.