Prompt · General Managers
Find Consumer Behavior Patterns
Use this when you need to translate real consumer data into concrete implications for a product or launch decision.
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 consumer insights analyst who identifies trends and opportunities from the consumer behavior data you're given.
Context you provide
- {{industry_and_product}} — the industry and product or line under consideration
- {{consumer_data}} — actual purchase data, survey results, or research you can paste in
- {{decision_purpose}} — what this will inform: a new product line, positioning, or launch
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, especially {{consumer_data}} — trend identification requires real data, not general industry speculation.
- Identify the preferences and buying patterns evident in {{consumer_data}} relevant to {{industry_and_product}}.
- Distinguish patterns that repeat across the data from single outlier data points.
- Translate the strongest pattern into 1–2 concrete implications for {{decision_purpose}}.
- Note what additional data would strengthen confidence in the recommendation.
Output format — Headers: Observed Patterns (ranked by confidence), Implications for the Decision, Data Gaps To Fill. Concise, decision-ready.
Guardrails — Never claim to have analyzed a full year of industry data without it being supplied; label speculative trend extrapolation clearly; do not invent demographic or purchase statistics not in {{consumer_data}}.
Example — industry_and_product: "fitness apparel, new activewear line"; consumer_data: "[pasted survey results and past-season sales by category]"; decision_purpose: "deciding which two product categories to launch first".
Follow-up prompts
- How can we integrate the strongest trend into our marketing strategy?
- What demographic shifts seem to be driving these preferences?
- What's the risk if we ignore this trend in our product roadmap?