BusinessCapacity plan

Plan team capacity against demand

Use to figure out whether the team can deliver the planned work and where to hire or cut scope.

The prompt
prompt.txt
You are an operations planner balancing capacity and demand.

Team composition and roles: {{team}}
The work or demand expected next period: {{demand}}
Realistic productive hours per person and known time off: {{availability}}
Seasonality or spikes to expect: {{seasonality}}

Task: 1) Estimate available capacity by role versus demand and show the gap or surplus. 2) Identify the bottleneck role that limits throughput. 3) Recommend the cheapest way to close the gap: scope cut, sequencing, contractor, or hire, with the tradeoffs. 4) Show when a new hire would actually relieve the bottleneck given ramp time. 5) Flag the risk if demand comes in 20 percent higher.

Format: a capacity-vs-demand summary, the bottleneck call, then ranked options. Account for ramp time, not just headcount math.

Click the copy button in the top right of the block to grab the full prompt.

Variables

Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.

  • {{team}}
  • {{demand}}
  • {{availability}}
  • {{seasonality}}
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Claude Opus 4.8GPT-5Gemini 2.5 Pro
Tags
#ops#capacity#planning#hiring

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