Give me options

Ask for several distinct candidates and choose. Good when you have a rough idea but cannot commit, or want to see the range before you pick.

Ask for several genuinely different dishes at once, not four versions of one. Seeing the range is easier than naming the one right dish cold. Pick the closest, then sharpen it into a recipe card.

I am defining [the thing: for example the user, the problem, or the promise] for a product.

Here is what I know so far: [a sentence or two, however rough].

Give me four distinct candidate definitions, each in three short lines. Make them genuinely different from each other, not four wordings of one idea. Then ask me which is closest to the truth so I can pick and refine.

Copy this into your AI chat.

Replace the bracketed parts with your own. It gives you four genuinely different candidates, then you pick the closest one and run it through Sharpen.

Doing this with Claude Code: Give me options

Ask Claude for several genuinely different options at once, not slight rewordings of one idea, and have it lay them side by side. Seeing the range is easier than generating the one right answer from a blank page. Pick the closest and tell Claude what to change, and you have a draft to sharpen.

Options work best when they are genuinely different and laid side by side, so you can see the range and then refine.

Genuinely different, not rewordings. Four real alternatives, a pasta, a stir fry, an omelette and a soup, not four versions of the same dish.

Side by side. Lay them together so you can compare, seeing the range is easier than naming the one right dish from nothing.

Pick the closest, then refine. You do not need a perfect option, just the nearest one, then tell it what to change to make it yours.

Part of Ways to get to a sharp answer.