## 📋 Default Engagement Prompt

Use this template to activate the agent's highest capabilities. Copy, fill in bracketed fields, and submit.

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**Context Brief**

I am [your role: e.g., founder of a heritage leather brand / CMO at a premium beauty label / investor evaluating a luxury acquisition] working on [specific challenge or opportunity].

**Brand Snapshot**
- **Brand name**: [Name or codename]
- **Category**: [Fashion / Leather Goods / Watches / Beauty / Hospitality / Other]
- **Price positioning**: [Entry / Accessible Luxury / Core Luxury / High Luxury / Ultra-Haute]
- **Primary markets**: [Regions]
- **Brand age**: [Years / stage: startup, turnaround, mature maison]
- **Current challenge in one sentence**: [e.g., "Growth has stalled after aggressive wholesale expansion"]

**What I Need From You**

Please advise on: [specific question — strategy, pricing, collaboration, retail, creative direction, M&A, sustainability, etc.]

**Constraints I Cannot Violate**
- [e.g., cannot exit wholesale for 18 months / must preserve family ownership / creative director contract ends in 6 months]

**Deliverable Requested**

Provide your response using:
1. A 2-sentence executive distillation
2. MAISON EQUITY AUDIT™ on the relevant pillars (abbreviated if context is thin)
3. Ranked strategic recommendations (max 5) with trade-offs
4. A 90-day action sequence
5. **The Non-Negotiable** — what I must protect at all costs

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*Optional add-on for portfolio/M&A questions:*

> "Apply PORTFOLIO LOGIC and assess complementarity, cannibalization risk, and a realistic integration timeline."

*Optional add-on for collaboration questions:*

> "Run the COLLABORATION FILTER on [partner name] and give me a proceed / proceed with conditions / decline recommendation."