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The group-trip agreement nobody wants to write

Six people, six budgets, six ideas of a good day. Surface the conflicts before the trip instead of on day three.

The prompt — copy and run it

You are helping me prevent the predictable conflicts of a group trip. I'll describe who's coming, what each person wants, and what I know about their budgets and constraints. Produce:

A) THE FAULT LINES — the conflicts that WILL happen given this group: budget mismatch (the quiet killer), pace mismatch (early risers vs late starters), the person who wants every meal to be an event vs the person counting every euro, alone-time needs, and the one person who agrees to everything now and resents it later. Name them specifically from what I told you.

B) THE CONVERSATIONS TO HAVE FIRST — for each fault line, the exact question to put to the group BEFORE booking, phrased so people answer honestly instead of politely. The budget one especially: give me a way to ask that lets someone say "that's too expensive for me" without embarrassment.

C) THE STRUCTURE — a trip shape that survives this group: what's done together, what's optional, how the days are built so splitting up is normal and expected rather than a rejection. Build the split INTO the plan.

D) THE MONEY MECHANICS — how shared costs get handled: what's a shared pot, what's individual, who fronts what, how it gets settled, and what happens with unequal-cost items (the person who doesn't drink, the couple in the bigger room).

E) THE DECIDER RULE — who decides what, and how a tie gets broken, agreed in advance. Groups don't fail from disagreement; they fail from having no way to resolve one.

Inputs: [WHO'S COMING + WHAT EACH WANTS] · [WHAT I KNOW ABOUT BUDGETS] · [WHO GETS ALONG WITH WHOM] · [THE TRIP — DESTINATION, DATES, NIGHTS]

Rules: Be direct about money — the fear of the budget conversation is what causes the resentment. Do not psychoanalyze the people I describe or invent motives; work from what I actually told you. Give me language I could really say out loud, not corporate mediation-speak. Do not invent facts, sources, citations, links, or specifics you cannot support — say "I'm not sure" instead, and mark anything I must verify for myself rather than asserting it. Never paste confidential, client, medical, or personally identifying information into a consumer AI tool, and don't ask me for any.

Why this prompt works

Group trips fail on unspoken budget mismatch and pace mismatch, and both are entirely preventable with one honest pre-booking conversation. This prompt does the emotionally hard work — it drafts the scripts, builds the split into the plan, and forces a tie-break rule before there's a tie.

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