Build the competitive set with a repeatable recipe
Lesson 2 of 6 · Pre-lease and lease-up
1 · Learn the move · Recipe pattern
When you pre-lease, the tenant tours your drawings against buildings they can stand in today. The competitive set is the list of those buildings, and it should be built the same way every quarter so this quarter's set can be read against the last. The recipe fixes the order: criteria first, taken from your own program, not from the comps you happen to have; then your building, as designed, tagged; then only the competitors you pasted, one row each, with their source and date; then every missing stat as UNKNOWN; then a note that the set is limited to what you gave it. The model wants to round out a thin set with a plausible building down the road, or fill a missing clear height with what is typical for the vintage. Either one poisons the benchmark. A competitor that fails a criterion is listed as excluded, with the reason, rather than quietly dropped.
Run this recipe in order: (1) state comp criteria from my program; (2) my building, AS DESIGNED, tagged to the plan sheet; (3) only the competitors I pasted, one row each, with source and date; (4) any missing stat is UNKNOWN; (5) any competitor outside the criteria is listed EXCLUDED with the reason; (6) scope note. Compute nothing. [my program] [competitor sheets]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You are setting the pre-leasing plan for Building 1 at Marsh Oak Commerce Center. Your program is a 118,000 SF rear-load building at 32' clear, designed for regional distribution. Your leasing team pulled sheets on four buildings within the trade area: two from owner flyers, one from a county assessor card and a tour, and one from a tenant's own summary. One sheet has no clear height and one building is half the size of yours.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.