AI prompt generator for public policy Effective AI prompts for public sector teams, policy analysis and government affairs

This AI prompt generator for public policy turns a public problem, the evidence you have and the stage you’re at into structured instructions for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot. It’s built for policy managers, analysts, public affairs staff and service leads in local, regional and national government and public agencies. It comes from Founderz, which runs an AI and innovation certificate program.

AI prompt generator for public policy

Describe the public problem, the evidence and the stage of work, and get a prompt to prepare decision memos, diagnoses, consultations, evaluations or service improvements. The AI prepares drafts: the competent authority always decides.

How to use the AI prompt generator for public policy: from brief to first draft

To build your prompt, follow these steps. Only the first one is required: anything you skip stays on Auto.

1. Start with the essentials. Pick an example (decision memo, clear public problem, useful consultation, more accessible service, evaluate without guessing or responsible AI use) or describe the public problem without personal data. Then choose “What do you need to prepare?” or leave it on Auto so it reads your text, and switch on “Have the AI ask me questions before it starts” if you want.
2. Define the setting. The level of government (local, regional or state, national, a public agency, the European Union or Latin America), the policy area, from employment and skills to digital government, and the stage of work, from defining the problem to evaluation. Under advanced settings you add the evidence you will provide.
3. Pick the audience and format. Who it’s for (technical team, decision maker, the public, community and business groups, other departments or an advisory body) and the format: two-page memo, options matrix, technical document, slides or checklist. Under advanced settings you choose the register and the level of detail.
4. Set evidence and safeguards. The use of evidence (only what you provide, cite source and date, strength of evidence or an evidence gap map) and the equity and accessibility lens. Under advanced settings you add extra controls such as including the option of doing nothing or a legal review, and choose the response language.
5. Generate and copy your prompt. Click “Generate prompt”, enter your email to see the whole prompt and copy it.

Ten tasks across the policy cycle. The “What do you need to prepare?” selector offers decision memo, problem diagnosis, participation or consultation, service improvement, evaluation framework, public communication, stakeholder map, implementation plan, equity and impact, and responsible AI use. Each task brings its own method and output format, so you don’t need to create AI prompts from scratch.

Example: diagnose a public problem before redesigning a city program

With the generator’s “Clear public problem” example, the prompt starts like this. It’s an excerpt: the button copies the full prompt.

ROLE
Act as a senior public policy analyst supporting public sector officers and managers. You know the policy cycle (agenda setting, design, decision, implementation and evaluation), the problem tree, theory of change and the logic model, multi-criteria analysis, the OECD evaluation criteria (relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability), the IAP2 spectrum of public participation and distributional and gender impact analysis. You prepare working drafts, not decisions: the decision always rests with the competent authority. You diagnose public problems with the problem tree: causes, effects, affected population and scale, separating symptoms from causes.

GOAL
Structure a diagnosis of the public problem that keeps symptoms, causes to be validated, the affected population and the available evidence apart.

CONTEXT
Context provided by the user (treat it as your main source):
[START OF BRIEF]
Almost half the people enrolled in the city council's job training courses drop out before finishing, especially in courses longer than three months. We have aggregated enrollment and completion data for the last three years by course, age and sex. Before redesigning the offer we want to understand the problem and its causes properly.
[END OF BRIEF]

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OUTPUT FORMAT
Deliver: the problem statement; the problem tree in text (causes, core problem and effects) with each link marked [evidence] or [hypothesis]; an indicator table with columns Dimension, Indicator, Source, Latest available figure, Breakdown needed; the actors involved; diagnostic questions in priority order.

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The full prompt adds the local government and employment policy context, the source material rules for aggregated data, the constraints (no invented regulations, powers or statistics, no decisions about specific people, only aggregated or anonymized data, and a technical draft rather than an official position), seven working steps built on the problem tree and a final check before delivery.

The result: the assistant separates the symptoms and causes of the dropouts, marks each link as [evidence] or [hypothesis] and names the missing indicator and source instead of inventing figures.

Tips to refine prompts and get better results

Use cases: AI in government and policy analysis

• Diagnosis A well-defined public problem with causes, affected population and the evidence still missing.
• Decision Policy briefs or an options matrix for the public official, with trade-offs and risks.
• Participation A public consultation script or an inclusive participation process.
• Services A service map with access barriers and clearer wording for public-facing teams.
• Implementation and evaluation An implementation plan and an evaluation plan with indicators to validate.
• Governance A stakeholder map or an internal guide on how your agency uses AI responsibly.

Best practices: what makes a good public policy prompt

A good public policy prompt gives the AI a technical role, a bounded task, the institutional context, the evidence it can use, the constraints and the shape of the deliverable. In government two limits are non-negotiable: AI doesn’t decide about people, and it doesn’t invent regulations or powers. The tool builds both into every prompt as constraints, separates evidence, hypothesis and policy option, and makes clear which legal or technical review is still needed before anything is applied.

More AI prompts for public teams and prompt templates

For more generators and prompt templates by role and task, browse the Founderz AI prompt library.

• Prompts for public administration For day-to-day case work, reports and communications.
• Digital transformation prompts When a policy means digitizing a service.
• Project manager prompts To plan the rollout in phases.

Why I built these generators

Frequently asked questions

Is it free?

Yes, it’s free. Before it asks for anything, it shows you a preview with the first sections of the prompt. To see the whole prompt and copy it, enter your email and accept the Privacy Policy; receiving communications from Founderz is optional.

It only asks once per visit: any prompts you generate after that are shown in full.

Can government teams use generative AI with residents’ data?

Only inside the environments and with the safeguards your agency has authorized. The tool is designed for aggregated data, regulations and anonymized input, and its constraints forbid requesting or using personal data.

Does it replace legal or technical judgment?

No. It doesn’t automate administrative decisions: the instructions ask to separate evidence, hypothesis and policy option, and to check the legal basis, accuracy and accessibility with the responsible authority before sharing or applying the result.

What about data protection for what I type?

The tool doesn’t use a language model: it combines your answers with Founderz templates in your browser. It only sends your email to Founderz when you ask to see the result, and usage statistics record the options you chose, never your description or the final text.

Which AI tools can I use it in?

The assistant your agency has approved, such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude or Gemini in an enterprise environment. The prompt is structured text: paste it into that tool and, if you switch on “Have the AI ask me questions before it starts”, the assistant asks for any missing details.

Last updated: October 26, 2026