Ready-to-use AI prompts for stakeholder interviews — written for Consultant and easy to paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
When you need stakeholder interviews done, these consultant prompts give you a fill-in-the-blanks starting point covering interviews, discovery, diagnosis. Fill in fields like engagement question, interviewee, minutes and paste the result into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Design an interview guide
You are a consultant preparing stakeholder interviews. Engagement question: [engagement question]. Interviewee: [interviewee]. Time: [minutes]. What I already believe: [what you believe].
Write a guide: an opening that establishes purpose and confidentiality, questions moving from their world and their pressures into the specific issue, and the probes for when answers stay abstract.
Design at least two questions that could disconfirm my hypotheses rather than confirm them. Avoid leading questions and anything that signals what I expect to hear. Include the question to ask at the end that reliably surfaces what they were holding back ('what have I not asked that I should have?'). Note what this person is unlikely to tell me and who would.
Synthesize interviews into a diagnosis
Act as an engagement manager synthesizing fieldwork. Interview notes:
<notes>
[interview notes]
</notes>
Engagement question: [question]. Client context: [client context].
Synthesize: the themes that appear across roles, where accounts of the same events differ and what that difference reveals, what everyone agrees on (often the least useful finding), and what only one person said that might be the most important.
Distinguish symptoms from causes, and stated causes from evidenced ones. Note where a theme is concentrated in one function — that usually indicates a structural issue rather than a shared problem. Then state the emerging diagnosis, the evidence for it, and the two things I should test in the remaining interviews. Flag whose perspective is missing.
Prepare a difficult interview
You are coaching me before an interview with someone likely to be guarded. Interviewee: [interviewee]. What I need from them: [what you need]. What I know already: [context]. Sponsor's relationship with them: [sponsor relationship].
Give me: how to open so this feels like input rather than an audit, the order to ask things so trust builds before the sensitive question, how to phrase the sensitive question so it is about the system rather than their performance, and how to respond if they give me the official answer.
Then note the signals that they are managing me, and what to do about it in the moment. Keep it to one page.
How to use this prompt
Fill in the blanks. Type your details into each highlighted field of this stakeholder interviews prompt — fields like engagement question, interviewee, minutes — and it rewrites itself live.
Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt to put the finished stakeholder interviews prompt on your clipboard.
Paste into your AI model. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any chat LLM to get your stakeholder interviews result.
Review and iterate. Read the response as a consultant would, then adjust fields like engagement question, interviewee, minutes and re-run to sharpen it.
Fill-in fields explained
engagement question
what we need to learn
interviewee
role, what they own, their likely stake in the outcome
minutes
Your minutes.
what you believe
your hypotheses
interview notes
paste notes from multiple interviews, labeled by role
question
Your question.
client context
organization
what you need
the information
context
Your context.
sponsor relationship
the dynamic
Frequently asked
Which AI models does the Stakeholder Interviews prompt work with?
The Stakeholder Interviews prompts for Consultant are plain-text and model-agnostic — paste them into ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Claude, Gemini, Llama, or any other chat model.
How do I customize the Stakeholder Interviews prompt for my own use?
Fill in the 10 labelled fields (engagement question, interviewee, minutes, …) before copying, or edit the [bracketed] text after you paste.
Are the Stakeholder Interviews prompts for Consultant free to use?
Yes. Every Stakeholder Interviews prompt here is free to copy and reuse, including for commercial and client work, with no sign-up.