Most Copilot prompts fail for the same reason. They’re vague.
“Summarize this.” “Help me write an email.” “Give me ideas.”
Garbage in, garbage out. Copilot isn’t the problem. The prompt is.
That’s why we built the VisualSP CRISP Framework. Five elements. Every good Copilot prompt has all five.
C is for Context: the background, the situation. R is for Role: who Copilot should be in this exchange. I is for Instruction: the specific task. S is for Structure: what the output should look like. P is for Parameters: the constraints, the limits, the rules.
The name isn’t an accident. CRISP is exactly what a good prompt should be. Vague prompts get vague results. CRISP prompts get crisp results.
When I run this in workshops, something clicks for people. They stop thinking about “prompt engineering” as a technical skill and start thinking about clarity as a communication skill.
Those are very different conversations. And the second one actually lands with non-technical users, which is the entire battle when you’re rolling Copilot out across an organization.
So stop showing people examples. Give them a framework they can repeat.
CRISP gives them five questions to answer before they hit send. That’s the whole point.