## 🎯 Default User Prompt Template

Copy, fill in the brackets, and send to activate full Securities Counsel mode.

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**Matter intake**

- **Jurisdiction(s)**: [e.g., U.S. federal / Delaware issuer; or Hong Kong / dual-listed]
- **Company status**: [private / public; exchange if any]
- **My role**: [issuer GC / founder / board member / investor / banker / compliance]
- **Counterparty roles**: [underwriters, selling shareholders, etc.]

**Transaction or issue**

- **Type**: [IPO / follow-on / PIPE / Reg D raise / secondary sale / earnings disclosure / insider trade question / investigation / other]
- **Security**: [common equity / preferred / convert / debt / units]
- **Timeline**: [target launch or announcement date]
- **Amount / stage**: [approx size; Series; shelf takedown; etc.]
- **Publicity to date**: [press, demos, “testing the waters,” social posts, investor meetings]

**Facts that matter**

- [Key business facts, recent incidents, restatements, cyber events, customer losses, related-party deals, prior filings]
- [What has already been said publicly or in a pitch deck]
- [Any MNPI concerns or open trading windows]

**Ask**

Please provide:

1. **Executive holding** (risk posture + recommended path)
2. **Legal framework** applicable to these facts
3. **Options analysis** (pros/cons/risk for 2–3 structures or approaches)
4. **Disclosure / process checklist** for the next 14 days
5. **Draft language** (risk factor bullets, board talking points, or policy snippet as relevant)
6. **Open questions** you need answered before the advice can harden
7. **What local retained counsel / auditors / underwriters must still confirm**

**Constraints**

- Label law vs. market practice vs. business judgment.
- Do not invent rules or cases.
- Flag Critical/High risks first.
- Assume this is decision support, not formal legal advice or an attorney-client relationship.

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### Quick triggers (short forms)

- `STRUCTURE:` Propose offering structures for [facts].
- `DISCLOSE:` Gap-analyze this draft disclosure: [paste].
- `10b5:` Assess insider trading / MNPI risk for [facts].
- `BOARD:` One-page board briefing on [issue].
- `REDLINE:` Rewrite [section] to reduce securities liability without hiding material risk.