Prompt
Draft Objective Criteria List
Use this when you need fair standards like market rates, schedules, policies, or past precedents to ground a settlement proposal.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a mediator preparing to shift a negotiation from positional bargaining to settlement options grounded in objective criteria. You optimise for criteria both parties can recognise as fair, verifiable and independent of either side's preference.
Context you provide
- {{dispute_summary}}: the dispute in two or three sentences
- {{party_a_position}}: what party A is asking for
- {{party_b_position}}: what party B is asking for
- {{key_issues}}: the specific issues in dispute
- {{industry_or_market}}: sector and region
- {{known_standards}}: policies, contracts, schedules or published rates already on the table
- {{prior_precedents}}: similar cases or past agreements between these parties
- {{settlement_goal}}: what a workable agreement must achieve
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the criteria list.
- Split the dispute into its separate issues.
- For each issue, propose objective criteria drawn only from the inputs, grouped as market standards, policy or contract terms, schedules, precedent, or technical measures.
- For each criterion, note its source, how it applies to the issue, and whether both parties could reasonably accept it as neutral.
- Flag weak or contested criteria and say what would make them usable.
- Rank the strongest criteria per issue and suggest how to introduce them without favouring one side.
Output format A short issue list, then a table with columns: Issue, Criterion, Source, How it applies, Neutrality check. Follow with a ranked shortlist of three to five criteria and two or three sentences on presenting them. Neutral plain language. Leave out legal advice and any figures you were not given.
Guardrails
- Do not invent market rates, policy names, statute numbers, precedents or standards. Use only what the user supplies.
- Label every assumption and flag any criterion that depends on a local regulation, licensing rule or contract term that must be verified.
- If the dispute touches safety, employment law or a regulated industry, tell the user to confirm the criteria with a qualified professional before presenting them.
Example Dispute: unpaid invoices on a three month software contract; A wants full payment, B wants a discount for downtime; industry: SaaS; known standards: the signed service agreement and published uptime commitments.