Six letters. One prompt that works.
CORDON turns your vague question into one clear, complete prompt.
Ready to paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others.
The problem.
The difference between a vague answer and a useful one is almost always the question.
CORDON is not more work. It improves the rough draft you bring. See for yourself.
What can I make for dinner tonight?
You get a recipe that needs ingredients you don't have. Back to the supermarket.
I have leftover chicken thighs, canned chickpeas, half a bag of spinach, and garlic, cooking for two with 30 minutes and one pan. Write this as a home cook who specialises in fast weeknight meals from whatever's in the fridge. I don't want another grocery run tonight, so give me one recipe using all four ingredients as a numbered step list. Keep it simple, nothing beyond basic kitchen tools.
You get dinner. With what's already in your kitchen.
The framework.
CORDON: Context, Objective, Role, Drive, Output, Norm. Each letter does one job.
Together they give the AI everything it needs to give you something worth using.
AI has no idea who you are or what your situation is. Start there.
Most prompts describe a topic. Yours should describe a result.
A generalist thinks differently than a specialist. Define who answers.
What is the why behind the what? Your reason sharpens the result.
Tell the AI what you want back: a list, an email, a summary. Be specific.
Every answer needs guidelines and boundaries. Be the one who sets them.
The founder.
Every time I got a useless answer, I blamed the AI model. Then I looked at what I had typed. No context. Vague question. Missing boundaries. The output was useless because the input was. So I fixed my input.
CORDON is the framework I made for myself. Six questions I ask myself before I type anything. Once I do, what comes back changes completely. It takes less than 2 minutes. No more endless back-and-forth. Just an answer you can use.
Jan-Willem Bekkers
The plans.
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Prompts improved.
“I wasted time asking ChatGPT multiple questions. CORDON helps me write one good one.”