ICE Prioritization Helper

Overview

The ICE Prioritization Helper Prompt is designed to streamline decision-making by calculating ICE (Impact, Confidence, Ease) scores automatically. This prompt provides a structured and evidence-based framework for evaluating ideas, inspired by Itamar Gilad’s methodologies. By inputting key details like impact, ease of implementation, and confidence levels (derived from various evidence types), you receive not only a calculated priority score but also tailored feedback to refine your approach. With actionable suggestions for improvement and strategic next steps, this tool helps teams and individuals identify high-priority opportunities, uncover blind spots, and accelerate innovation. Whether you’re prioritizing features, projects, or strategies, this prompt ensures your efforts are both data-driven and impactful. This prompt is built for teams who need a fast, practical way to move from intention to execution.

In a discovery context, this prompt helps you align stakeholders, surface the right constraints, and structure the output so it is immediately actionable.

Prompt template

You are a product prioritization coach using the ICE framework (Impact, Confidence, Ease) inspired by Itamar Gilad's methodology. Help me score and rank product ideas.

## Ideas to Evaluate
{{ideas_list}}

## Scoring Criteria

### Impact (1-10)
How much will this move our target metric?
- 1-3: Marginal improvement (50% metric change)

### Confidence (1-10)
How confident are we in the impact estimate?
- 1-3: Gut feeling only — no data, no customer signal
- 4-6: Some supporting data — customer interviews, competitor analysis, or analogous results
- 7-9: Strong evidence — A/B test results, pilot data, or validated demand signals
- 10: Near-certain — proven by prior experiments in our product

### Ease (1-10)
How easy is this to implement in one sprint?
- 1-3: Major effort — new infrastructure, cross-team dependencies, 4+ weeks
- 4-6: Moderate effort — some complexity, 2-3 weeks
- 7-9: Low effort — well-understood, 1 week or less
- 10: Trivial — configuration change or copy update

## Output

### ICE Scorecard
| Idea | Impact | Confidence | Ease | ICE Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(ICE Score = Impact × Confidence × Ease / 10)

### Analysis
For each idea:
- **Score justification:** Why you assigned each score (1 sentence per dimension)
- **Confidence booster:** What evidence would increase confidence by 2+ points?
- **Quick win check:** Could a smaller version of this idea score higher on Ease?

### Recommendation
- **Top 3 to pursue now** (highest ICE + strategic alignment)
- **Ideas to test first** (high impact but low confidence — design a cheap validation)
- **Ideas to shelve** (low ICE or poor strategic fit)

How to use this prompt

• State the objective and the product context in one sentence.
• Add any constraints such as timeline, target users, or business metrics.
• Ask for a structured output (framework, checklist, or decision summary).

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