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Maintenance priority list

When to use: at the start of the financial year, or after a facilities inspection. How to use: paste your maintenance list — get it prioritised by safety, service impact and cost.

When to use this prompt

Reach for this prompt when you need to when to use: at the start of the financial year, or after a facilities inspection. How to use: paste your maintenance list — get it prioritised by safety, service impact and cost. It's designed for Facilities Manager. Typically used within Facilities work.

Draft with AI, then have a colleague verify facts and tone before use.

How to use it

  1. 1

    Gather your inputs

    Have your local context, audience and goal to hand.
  2. 2

    Fill in the template

    Copy the template below and replace every bracketed placeholder with real, local context. Keep names and safeguarding details out.
  3. 3

    Run it in your AI tool

    Paste into your preferred AI assistant. Ask a follow-up if the output misses your association's tone or context.
  4. 4

    Review with the checklist

    Work through the human-review checklist below before you send, publish or act on the output.

Prefer a guided flow? Adapt with the guided builder — it fills placeholders from your association profile.

Prompt template

Prioritise the following maintenance items: {LIST}. Rank each by: safety criticality (must do / should do / could do), service impact (blocks activity / degrades activity / cosmetic), estimated cost band, deferability. Produce a prioritised list with reasoning. Flag any item that should be inspected by a competent professional before a decision is made.

Replace bracketed placeholders with real context. Never paste identifying details about children, health or safeguarding cases.

Worked example

List: [pasted maintenance backlog]

What good output looks like

A prioritised maintenance plan with cost bands and safety flags.

Why this prompt works

Turns a long facilities list into a defensible plan for the finance committee.

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