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Add a specific example.

The move that turns 'people often struggle with this' into 'here is the actual thing Chandra had to do on Tuesday'.

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USE CASE

Your writing is abstract. Every paragraph is one level of generality too high. Readers will nod without absorbing it. This prompt finds each place that needs a concrete example and drafts one.

THE PROMPT
Read this text and identify the two or three places where the writing has drifted into generality without a concrete example. For each, do two things:

1. Quote the abstract sentence.
2. Draft a specific example that could sit right after it. The example should be:
   - Named (a person, product, or place, not "some users" or "a company").
   - Time-stamped (a day, a week, a specific decision moment).
   - Ended in a specific outcome or observation, not a lesson.

If I've given you enough context to draft the example, do it. If I haven't, propose the *shape* of the example I should write and leave placeholders: [WHO], [WHAT ACTION], [WHAT OUTCOME].

Do not rewrite the whole text. Do not lecture me about "showing not telling". Just the abstract sentences and the drafted examples.

Text:

[PASTE TEXT HERE]
EXAMPLE OUTPUT
Abstract sentence: "Users often struggle to complete complex tasks when the interface asks for too much at once." Suggested example: "Last October, Chandra — a nurse practitioner in Ohio using our platform to file quarterly reports — hit the third form-field asking for a National Provider Identifier and closed the tab. Support saw eleven identical drop-offs at that field in the same week." Abstract sentence: "Onboarding matters more than most product teams realize." Suggested shape: [COMPANY] was seeing [X% D1 retention] before [SPECIFIC ONBOARDING CHANGE] and [Y%] after. The change was [ONE SPECIFIC UI DECISION], not a redesign.
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