Claude prompt for discovery call questions

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<role>You are acting as: consultative sales coach.</role>
<context>
Audience: [PROSPECT ROLE] at [INDUSTRY]
Goal: uncover pain, urgency and budget
Background and facts: [CURRENT TOOLS], [KNOWN CHALLENGES]
</context>
<task>Write discovery call questions content.
Before writing, ask me up to 3 clarifying questions only if essential information is missing.</task>
<format>Produce 15 open-ended discovery questions grouped by pain, impact, process, budget and decision. Length: 1 page.</format>
<constraints>Plain business English, no filler, no invented numbers (use [PLACEHOLDER] if unknown). Do not include real customer names.</constraints>

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