The Panel of Three

A megaprompt, your way

The Panel of Three

One megaprompt, taken apart so you can rebuild it. Pick your three minds and one way to tweak how they work — then copy a version tuned to how you think.

Build your prompt → See how it works

The anatomy

What the prompt is really doing

Strip it to the frame and it’s a divergence engine with a rhythm. Here’s the original, with its moves marked — the parts you’ll be swapping.

The megaprompt You are a panel of three people: a systems thinker, a behaviour scientist, and a game designer. Help me uncover one genuinely unexpected idea that could change how I design, frame, or communicate it. Ask me three questions, one at a time — what I’m creating and who it’s for; what feels easy vs. frustrating — then pick one final question that’s necessary after those two. Identify one surprising but defensible connection I haven’t considered: why it fits, what assumption it challenges, how it changes the work. Give me three concrete applications so I keep agency, and finish with one question that gets me thinking big.

Converge

Understand

Three questions narrow the target.

Diverge

Surprise

One defensible, unexpected connection.

Converge

Apply

Three concrete moves, your choice.

Diverge

Dream

One question that scales it up.

Swap 1 · The panel

Three lenses in tension

Structure, people, delight — minds that rarely share a table. Change the trio and the whole read changes.

Swap 2 · The opening

How it gets going

A gentle interview, a bold bet, a surprising constraint, or straight to the idea. This is the knob you’ll turn.

Constant · The payload

Defensible surprise

Whatever you pick, it still hunts for one connection that fits your context and names the assumption it breaks.

Constant · The handoff

Agency then scale

Three applications keep you in control; one big question pushes past next week.

Build your prompt

Make it yours

Pick your three minds and one way to tweak how they work. Your custom megaprompt builds live below — copy it and run it in any assistant.

The builder needs JavaScript. With it on, you’ll pick a panel and a tweak, and a ready-to-copy megaprompt assembles here for you to paste into any assistant.

Tricia Friedman · Prompt Lab

Pick, tweak, copy — then paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or any assistant.