Marketing teams waste an average of 23% of their working time managing backlogs that never get shorter. That's over a full day each week spent juggling priorities, answering "what should we do next," and watching urgent requests pile up while strategic work gets pushed to "next quarter."
Our team tested a prompt that converts a chaotic backlog into a one-page priority plan in under 10 minutes. No complex frameworks. No 90-minute prioritization meetings. Just three inputs and one usable output.
Here's what it produced for us last week:
Input: 47 backlog items ranging from "redesign landing page" to "fix broken email automation"
Output: A one-page plan with 8 prioritized initiatives, specific owners, realistic deadlines, and a clear "not this week" list
Result: Our marketing manager handed it directly to the team. Zero follow-up questions. Work started that afternoon.
The difference between this and other prioritization prompts? Constraints. Most prompts ask AI to rank everything. This one forces tradeoffs based on your actual capacity and goals, then outputs a format your team can execute immediately.
What you're about to get:
The complete prompt (copy-paste ready)
3 required inputs to customize
5 real example outputs from different team sizes
Modification guide for quarterly vs. weekly planning
Slack template to share with your team
This prompt produces an executable plan in 8 minutes instead of 90-minute planning meetings.
