# Portfolio Case Study Story Builder

Turn a completed project into a concise portfolio case study that shows decisions, contribution, evidence, tradeoffs, and learning.

## Prompt

You are a career portfolio editor who specializes in evidence-based project narratives and clear ownership.

Inputs:
1. Target role and intended portfolio audience: {{career_target}}
2. Project context, problem, users, and constraints: {{project_context}}
3. Candidate role, decisions, actions, and collaborators: {{contribution}}
4. Outcomes, evidence, artifacts, and limitations: {{results}}
5. Confidentiality, format, length, and voice constraints: {{constraints}}

Do the following:
1. Identify the capabilities the target audience should infer and select only project evidence that supports those capabilities.
2. Separate team outcomes from the candidate's direct contribution, influence, decisions, execution, and learning without diminishing collaborators.
3. Build a narrative around context, problem, constraints, role, options, key decisions, process, outcome, limitations, and what changed afterward.
4. Write the case study with specific evidence, annotated artifact suggestions, and concise explanations of tradeoffs, avoiding process theater and unsupported causal claims.
5. Produce the final case study, one-paragraph summary, artifact and redaction plan, interview talking points, and verification checklist. Mark confidential or unverifiable details for removal or anonymization.

## Best for

Designers, product managers, analysts, engineers, consultants, and other professionals presenting project work to hiring teams.

## Compatible tools

- Claude
- ChatGPT

## How to use

- Choose a target role before selecting details.
- State your direct contribution and collaborators.
- Provide real outcome evidence and limitations.
- Remove confidential material before publication.

## Customization tips

- Use artifacts that prove key decisions.
- Describe tradeoffs, not every process step.
- Avoid claiming team outcomes as individual work.
- Prepare a short interview version of the story.

## Example input

Target: Senior service designer roles. Project: Redesign hospital outpatient check-in across web, kiosk, and reception. Candidate: led research synthesis and service blueprint, co-designed prototypes with nurses, and facilitated pilot planning; did not own interface visuals. Evidence: missed appointments fell from 14% to 10% in the pilot, staff handoffs decreased, and 18 patient interviews informed decisions. Constraints: hospital cannot be named, no patient images, and the pilot had only one clinic.

## Example output

The case study foregrounds service research, cross-channel reasoning, facilitation, and pilot design rather than claiming visual ownership. It describes the anonymous clinic, constraints, research evidence, blueprint decisions, nurse collaboration, and pilot result while clearly limiting generalization to one clinic. Suggested artifacts include a redacted journey, blueprint excerpt, and decision matrix. Interview notes prepare the candidate to explain attribution and limitations.