Task

Sort a backlog into priority order with AI

Compare the work against your goal and explain the tradeoffs before agreeing an order.

  1. 1Understand the method
  2. 2Do it
  3. 3Check the result
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How to do this task

Follow the method below, do the task, then check the result. Tool links show options, not extra steps you must complete.

Traditional approach
Place each candidate beside the objective and the evidence for its effort and impact. Separate investigation from delivery. Check capacity with the team and record both the chosen order and why other work waits.
Use AI

List the candidate work, current objective and available evidence in the guide. Ask one assistant to compare the items against your stated criteria and explain each trade-off. Check capacity and unresolved assumptions with the team before agreeing an order; the output is a discussion draft.

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Prompt to use with your assistant
Return every candidate under consider now, needs evidence, or outside this objective. Explain the objective fit, constraints, missing evidence and trade-off for each. Preserve unknown effort; do not invent impact, confidence, RICE scores, dates or a final commitment. Suggest the minimum next investigation and list decisions for the team. Backlog:
What can go wrong
  • Incorrect: “A scores 92 and ships in two days; drop B permanently.” Correction: “Investigate A first; effort is unknown. Keep B pending an estimate and rationale.” Reconcile the final list with every original ID so no candidate silently disappears, then obtain the responsible team’s decision.
  • Incorrect: “Investigate A and B this week.” Correction: “Use the one available investigation slot for A; gather B’s estimate and reliability rationale without assigning a second investigation.”
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    ChatGPT

    OpenAI

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    Example tool for this task

    A general-purpose AI assistant for chat, analysis, writing, images and files.

    Good for
    • Broad personal and work tasks
    • Multimodal questions with text, images and files
    Watch out
    • Verify factual claims and citations
    • Review current data controls before pasting work material
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    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek

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    Another tool in a matching category

    A Chinese AI assistant known for reasoning and coding-oriented models.

    Good for
    • Checking a maths solution one step at a time
    • Grouping short feedback excerpts with quote labels
    Watch out
    • Browser chat access and API billing are separate
    • A long explanation can still contain a wrong step
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    Gemini

    Google

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    Another tool in a matching category

    Google’s general AI assistant for everyday questions, files and connected Google workflows.

    Good for
    • Summarising a small uploaded document
    • Questioning a spreadsheet with source-cell checks
    Watch out
    • Drive connections have different requirements from local file uploads
    • A successful upload does not prove every page was read correctly
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Paste this prompt with your material into the assistant you chose.

Return every candidate under consider now, needs evidence, or outside this objective. Explain the objective fit, constraints, missing evidence and trade-off for each. Preserve unknown effort; do not invent impact, confidence, RICE scores, dates or a final commitment. Suggest the minimum next investigation and list decisions for the team. Backlog:
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Human check before use

  • Every original candidate must appear exactly once in the final decision list.
  • Unknown effort and impact remain unknown; scores are not measurements.
  • The delivery team approves scope, capacity and order after reviewing the trade-offs.
Keep the final decision with a person

AI does not verify facts, arithmetic, identity or policy. Treat every generated line as a draft until you have checked it.

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Collected on
2026-08-30
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