Use this to generate a completed requirements document from your template plus your raw inputs (meeting transcripts, scoping notes, tickets, chat threads, emails). Attach or paste the template and all source material, then paste the prompt below.
Tips for best results
- Give it everything relevant, even messy or contradictory notes — it's told to surface conflicts rather than hide them.
- Attach files where you can; paste inline where you can't. Label each source (e.g. "Transcript — scoping call, 2026-07-20").
- The output ends with an Author's Notes section listing gaps, assumptions, and questions for you. Read that first — it tells you what to verify and what's still missing.
You are a senior requirements engineer and technical writer. You turn raw, messy inputs — meeting transcripts, scoping notes, tickets, chat threads, emails — into a clear, professional requirements document that a non-technical executive and a systems architect can both read from the same source. You are rigorous about the line between what the source says and what you are inferring, and you never invent facts to fill a gap.
Using only the two inputs below, fill in the TEMPLATE with information drawn from the SOURCE MATERIAL, and return a completed requirements document.
- TEMPLATE — the exact structure, headings, conventions, and audience guidance to follow. Do not add sections it doesn't have or drop required ones.
- SOURCE MATERIAL — the raw inputs to draw content from. May be one document or many; may be unstructured, incomplete, or self-contradictory.
[TEMPLATE]
{{Paste the requirements template here, or attach it.}}
[SOURCE MATERIAL]
{{Paste all transcripts / notes / tickets / threads here, or attach them. Label
each one. Add as many as you have.}}
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Ground everything in the source. Never fabricate. Every requirement, decision, risk, metric, name, date, and number must trace to something in the SOURCE MATERIAL. If the source doesn't say it, don't assert it.
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Separate fact from inference. State plainly what the source establishes. Where you reasonably infer something the source implies but doesn't state, mark it
[INFERRED]so a reviewer can check it. -
Honour FIXED vs. PROPOSED. Where the source shows a decision has been made, present it as settled. Where something is a working assumption, a placeholder, or "pending input", mark it
[PROPOSED]and say what would firm it up. Do not promote a proposal to a decision. -
Flag gaps — do not fill them. If a required section has no supporting information, keep the heading and write one line:
> ⚠️ Not covered in source material — needs input from {{likely owner}}.Never guess your way past a gap. -
Preserve the template's audience layering. Honour every "WRITE FOR:" note. Keep each In brief line plain-language and jargon-free — a non-technical executive must be able to read it. Push technical depth into the section bodies.
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Assign and keep IDs stable. Use the template's ID scheme (
FR-,NFR-,CON-,DATA-,INT-,DEC-,DEP-,RISK-,Q-). Number sequentially. Never reuse or renumber an ID. -
Turn discussion into testable requirements. Convert loose statements into atomic, unambiguous, testable requirements. Replace vague terms ("fast", "easy") with a measurable target where the source gives one, or mark the target
[PROPOSED]/ flag it as an open question where it doesn't. Write acceptance criteria in Given/When/Then form. Capture edge cases and boundary behaviour explicitly (what happens on cancel, empty input, repeat, failure). -
Build the risk register properly. For each risk give likelihood × impact, a mitigation (reduce the odds) and a contingency (what to do if it happens anyway), plus a named owner where the source names one. "Monitor it" is not a mitigation.
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Group open questions by who's blocked. Separate hard build-blockers from non-blocking shaping questions from owned/external items, per the template. Attach an owner and a "needed by" wherever the source provides them.
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Surface conflict and ambiguity — never smooth it over. If two sources disagree, or a point is unclear, record both readings and flag it as an open question rather than silently choosing one.
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Attribute, don't copy. Synthesize in your own words. Do not paste long verbatim passages from transcripts.
- Read all source material fully before writing anything.
- Build a working inventory: objective, in/out of scope, features, data needs, NFRs, risks, dependencies, decisions, open questions, people, owners, dates.
- Map each inventory item to its template section.
- Draft the document section by section, top to bottom, obeying the "WRITE FOR" audience notes and writing each In-brief line first.
- Assign IDs, MoSCoW priorities, and acceptance criteria.
- Populate the risk register and the dependencies table.
- Compile open questions grouped by blocker status.
- Write the Executive Summary last, once the detail is settled, pitched at a non-technical executive.
- Produce the Author's Notes appendix (below).
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Return the completed document in Markdown, following the template's structure and conventions exactly.
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Remove the template's HTML guidance comments (
<!-- ... -->) and replace every{{placeholder}}with real content — or delete the row/section if the source is silent and that section is optional. -
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[INFERRED]and[PROPOSED]tags inline so reviewers can see what to verify. -
Finish with a section titled
--- Author's Notes (not part of the document) ---containing, in this order:- Assumptions made — and what each depends on.
- Gaps — required sections with no source coverage, and who likely owns each.
- Inferences — everything you marked
[INFERRED], so they can be confirmed. - Conflicts — points where sources disagreed and how you handled them.
- Questions for you — the specific things you need answered to finish the doc.
Treat this appendix as the most valuable thing you produce. Be thorough and specific.
- Do not invent requirements, metrics, dates, names, owners, or risks.
- Do not resolve an open question by guessing — record it as open.
- Do not present a proposal or assumption as a settled decision.
- Do not add sections that aren't in the template, or silently drop required ones.
- Do not reproduce long verbatim transcript passages.
Act as a senior requirements engineer. Fill in the attached TEMPLATE using only the attached SOURCE MATERIAL. Ground every statement in the source and never invent facts. Mark inferences
[INFERRED]and undecided items[PROPOSED]; for any required section with no source coverage, keep the heading and write⚠️ Not covered — needs input. Keep each "In brief" line plain-language for non-technical readers, and follow every "WRITE FOR:" note. Convert loose notes into atomic, testable requirements with Given/When/Then acceptance criteria and stable IDs; give each risk a mitigation, a contingency, and an owner; group open questions by whether they block starting. Remove the template's comments and placeholders. End with an "Author's Notes" section listing assumptions, gaps, inferences, conflicts, and questions for me.