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August 21, 2026 · for Brand and growth marketers, agency strategists, content leads. One sharp, copy-paste prompt — free, every weekday.

You are a statistician auditing a marketing experiment before its result is adopted. I will paste the design and the results. Produce:

A) THE VALIDITY AUDIT, each in turn: sample size against the effect claimed, duration against a full business cycle, whether results were checked early and acted on, how many variants and metrics were compared, and any imbalance between groups at the start. Mark each PASS, CONCERN, or FAIL with the reasoning from my numbers.
B) THE VERDICT: ADOPT, ADOPT WITH LIMITS (state which population, and for how long), or RERUN (state the design change). Never issue ADOPT on a test that failed a validity check because the direction of the result looks sensible.
C) THE NOVELTY AND DURABILITY CHECK: whether the effect could be a novelty or seasonal artifact, what the metric would look like in six months if the effect is real versus if it is not, and the monitoring that would tell those apart.

My test: [PASTE: what was tested and why, the variants, audience and allocation, start and end dates, sample sizes and outcomes per variant, every metric compared, when results were first reviewed, anything changed mid-test]

Rules: Do not invent, estimate, or fabricate any statistic, benchmark, or performance figure — if a number is not in the material I give you, write "not provided" and flag it. Mark every claim I should verify in my analytics or source systems before it is published or presented. Never include customer personally identifiable information or client-confidential terms.

How to run “Is this result real? Audit the test before it becomes policy”, step by step

The situation this prompt is built for: A test "won" and it is about to become the default everywhere. Audit whether the result can carry that much weight. Below is exactly what to feed it and what comes back — no model-specific tricks, it runs the same in any chat AI.

Why this structure works

Most "winning" marketing tests are adopted on a result that could not survive the questions above — a two-day test read on the third peek across nine metrics. The audit's real value is the ADOPT WITH LIMITS verdict: it lets a promising result ship where it was actually measured, instead of forcing a binary between rolling out noise and discarding a genuine effect.

On Pro, pro personalization loads your program's baseline rates and typical business cycle so the duration and sample checks are judged against your traffic, not a rule of thumb.

When to use it — and when not to

Reach for it when

• A test "won" and it is about to become the default everywhere. Audit whether the result can carry that much weight.
• You need the output in a shape you can forward as-is — the fixed structure above is the point.

Skip it when

• You don’t yet have the source material — the prompt is built to refuse to fake it. Its own guardrail: “Do not invent, estimate, or fabricate any statistic, benchmark, or performance figure — if a number is not in the material I give you, write "not provided" and flag it.” With nothing to work from, you’ll get a list of “not provided” flags, which is honest but not useful. Collect the inputs first.
• The task is genuinely one sentence long — a structured prompt earns its overhead when the output has parts. For quick one-off questions, just ask.

Adapting today’s prompt for adjacent roles

“Is this result real? Audit the test before it becomes policy” sits in the Analytics & Reporting lane of the marketing pool. If your seat is one desk over, these are the same craft-move rebuilt for the neighbouring workflow — pulled from the same curated pool, each free in full at its permalink:

You are a communications strategist preparing a plan for stakeholder approval. I will paste the plan and who has to approve it. Produce: A) A STAKEHOLDER MAP: each…

You are a case study writer working from a customer interview. I will paste the transcript and context. Produce: A) THE STORY in four beats — the situation before (in…

You are a media buyer running a mid-flight pacing review. I will paste spend-to-date and the flight parameters. Produce: A) THE PROJECTION per campaign or channel:…

Common failure modes (and the fixes)

• Failure: letting the model drift past the prompt’s own guardrail — “Do not invent, estimate, or fabricate any statistic, benchmark, or performance figure — if a number is not in the material I give you, write "not provided" and flag it.” Fix: keep that line in when you edit the prompt; it exists because this is exactly where outputs go wrong without it.
• Failure: letting the model drift past the prompt’s own guardrail — “Mark every claim I should verify in my analytics or source systems before it is published or presented.” Fix: keep that line in when you edit the prompt; it exists because this is exactly where outputs go wrong without it.
• Failure: letting the model drift past the prompt’s own guardrail — “Never include customer personally identifiable information or client-confidential terms.” Fix: keep that line in when you edit the prompt; it exists because this is exactly where outputs go wrong without it.
• Failure: accepting the first pass. Fix: reply with one line — “now cut everything that is generic to any company and keep only what is specific to mine” — the cheapest quality doubling available.

Quick answers

Is “Is this result real? Audit the test before it becomes policy” free to use?

Yes — every weekday issue of the PromptSharp Marketing Brief publishes one full pool prompt free on the web, and it stays free in the archive. Pro is the daily full prompt set, personalization, and MCP delivery — not a paywall on this page.

Which AI model does this prompt work with?

Any of them. Every PromptSharp prompt is model-agnostic plain text — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, or a local model. No plugins, no custom GPTs; paste and run.

How is the marketing prompt of the day chosen?

Deterministic rotation over the curated marketing pool — currently 50 prompts across 5 sections — the same single source the paid brief reads. Same date, same prompt: the archive never silently changes under you.

How do I get this in my inbox instead?

The capture form above — PromptSharp Marketing Brief status is honest: live briefs send every weekday; pre-launch verticals email their free list the day the email edition starts.

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