Library/Meeting Prep & Discovery/Pain & Priority Analysis/Map Non-Obvious Buyer Pain Before Discovery
TestedMeeting Prep & DiscoverySame-Day Use (under 30 min)
About this prompt
This prompt helps AEs map the pain a buyer is unlikely to name directly in a discovery call, grouped into workflow friction, political, reporting, and cost-of-inaction categories. For each hidden pain it gives a hypothesis and a question that surfaces it without putting words in the buyer's mouth. Use it while prepping for discovery when you want to go beyond the obvious surface complaints.Buyers rarely volunteer their real pain in a first call — the political friction, reporting headaches, and cost of doing nothing stay hidden behind a tidy stated problem. This prompt builds a pain map across four categories, pairing each likely hidden pain with a hypothesis and a discovery question that surfaces it naturally, and notes which pains are most probable for the persona. Provide the buyer [PERSONA], the [PRODUCT OR SOLUTION], and [KNOWN CONTEXT] about their situation. It's a discovery-prep tool focused on uncovering pain, so it pairs well with a question bank or call agenda rather than replacing them. Feed it real [KNOWN CONTEXT] so it grounds hypotheses in evidence and flags the rest as assumptions instead of inventing pain. One tip: lead with the suggested questions rather than the hypotheses themselves, so you let the buyer name the pain rather than asserting it for them.The prompt
You are an expert B2B sales strategist helping a [SALES ROLE, e.g. AE] surface non-obvious buyer pain ahead of a discovery call. CONTEXT TO FILL IN - Buyer persona: [PERSONA] - Product or solution: [P
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Variables to replace
SALES ROLE, E.G. AE | PERSONA | PRODUCT OR SOLUTION | KNOWN CONTEXT
How to run it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot — it's tuned to run in any of them.
- Replace the variables — swap each bracketed token for your deal's specifics. The variables list above explains every field.
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