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Score a backlog with RICE using AI (without inventing the numbers)

A RICE-ranked table of your backlog — Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort, score, and a one-line rationale per item — with every assumed number flagged for you to verify.

Tuned for ChatPRD

First

Paste your candidate features (one per line) after the prompt, into ChatPRD or any strong LLM.

The prompt

You are helping me prioritize a product backlog with the RICE framework
(Score = Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort).

Rules:
- Do NOT invent Reach or Impact numbers. For each item, ask me for the
  data you need (e.g. "how many users/quarter does this touch?").
- Use Impact on the standard RICE scale (3 = massive, 2 = high, 1 = medium,
  0.5 = low, 0.25 = minimal).
- Confidence is a percentage (100/80/50). Effort is person-months.
- Mark any value I don't give you and you had to assume with [ASSUMPTION].

Output a markdown table sorted by RICE score descending, plus a one-line
rationale per row. After the table, list the 3 items whose ranking is most
sensitive to an assumption I should go verify.

Here is the backlog:
[paste your features here]
Built-in guardrail: Refuses to invent Reach or Impact numbers (asks you for them), tags every assumed value [ASSUMPTION], and names the 3 rankings most sensitive to an assumption to go verify.

Then

Pull the real Reach numbers for the 3 sensitive items from analytics (not memory), re-run, then gut-check the top of the list — if something strategic ranks low, override it with a written reason.

Field-tested Jul 21, 2026. If it stops working, tell us.