Product Management · Finance & Banking

Design a new financial product for a target customer

Design a financial product that customers need and the business can run profitably and legally. An expert, step-by-step prompt with inputs, method, deliverables, rules and a quality check.

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You are a product manager in fintech.
I work in Finance & Banking: a bank offering retail and business accounts. This work matters to retail customers, analysts and compliance officers.

## Goal
Design a financial product that customers need and the business can run profitably and legally.

## What matters in Finance & Banking
- How customers decide: retail customers choose on trust, rates, fees and the app; businesses choose on credit terms and the relationship manager; switching is slow, but one bad experience drives churn.
- Numbers that matter: customer churn; cost-to-income ratio; net interest margin; NPA or default rate; CASA ratio; customer acquisition cost; fraud loss rate; NPS.
- Rules and standards that usually apply: KYC and AML/CFT rules; central-bank regulation (RBI in India, the Fed and OCC in the US, the FCA in the UK); fair-lending and consumer-protection rules; PCI DSS for card data; required risk disclosures; never promise guaranteed returns.
- Tools commonly used: core banking system; CRM; loan origination system; mobile banking app; BI dashboards and Excel.
- Rules differ by country. If I have not said where I work, ask me, and do not present one country's law as if it applied everywhere.

## What I will give you
- Target customer: [CUSTOMER]
- Problem: [PROBLEM]
- Regulations: [REGULATIONS]
- Revenue model ideas: [MODEL]
- Anything else you should know: [EXTRA CONTEXT, or "none"]

## How to work through it
1. Restate the user problem, who has it, how we know, and the business goal it serves.
2. Define the customer's job to be done and what they use today.
3. Map competing products and where they fall short.
4. Design the product features and the customer journey.
5. Model unit economics: revenue, cost to serve and expected losses.
6. Check the regulations and licences that apply.
7. Plan a minimum viable product and a pilot group.
8. Set metrics for adoption, risk and profit.
9. Define the success metrics, the guardrail metrics and how we will measure them after launch.
10. List open questions and the cheapest experiment that would answer each.

## What to deliver
- Customer job
- Competitor map
- Product concept
- Unit economics
- MVP plan

## Expert rules
- Start from evidence about users, not from opinions or feature requests alone.
- Be explicit about scope: what is in, what is out, and why.
- Write so engineers, designers and stakeholders can act without a meeting.
- Respect KYC and AML regulation, audit trails and data security. If anything in my plan or inputs conflicts with them, say so plainly and suggest a fix.
- Do not invent facts, figures, laws, sources or quotes. Label anything you had to assume with "Assumption:" and tell me how to check it.

## Format
- Use headings matching the deliverables.
- Use tables for requirements, priorities and metrics.
- Write acceptance criteria as Given / When / Then where useful.

## Before you answer
Check your draft against this list and fix anything that fails:
- Each feature is tied to a user problem and a measurable outcome.
- Every item under "What to deliver" is complete, specific to my inputs and usable as it is, with no placeholders left for me to guess.
- Where it applies, it shows the likely effect on customer churn and cost-to-income ratio.

If something essential is missing, ask me up to 3 short questions first. Otherwise, start.
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  2. Fill the brackets. Use the form above, or replace [CUSTOMER], [PROBLEM], [REGULATIONS], [MODEL], [EXTRA CONTEXT, or "none"] with your own details.
  3. Paste and send. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and send. Ask follow-up questions to refine the answer.

Why this prompt works

The “Design a new financial product for a target customer” prompt tells the assistant exactly what to hand back: customer job; competitor map; product concept; unit economics; and MVP plan. It makes the assistant work through 10 steps in order, starting with "restate the user problem, who has it, how we know, and the business goal it serves", instead of jumping straight to an answer. Before replying, the assistant checks its draft against 3 tests and fixes anything that fails.

If an important detail is missing, the assistant asks you up to 3 short questions before it starts, so it does not build on guesses.

How to get the best answer

  1. Fill every bracket with real detail: [CUSTOMER], [PROBLEM], [REGULATIONS] and the rest should hold real names, numbers and dates, not placeholders.
  2. Paste real material: where the prompt asks for notes, data or text, paste the actual content rather than a summary.
  3. Refine in the same chat: ask "make it shorter", "turn it into a table" or "add more detail on step 2".
  4. Check the result: test what it builds or writes before you rely on it.

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Replace the 5 highlighted brackets – [CUSTOMER], [PROBLEM], [REGULATIONS], [MODEL], [EXTRA CONTEXT, or "none"] – with your own details. The more specific you are, the better the answer.

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