> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://parabola.io/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Prompt an artifact

> Name the audience and the decision, ask for the controls you need, iterate on what you get, then style or brand the result.

An Artifact starts as a description. Prowork writes the page behind the scenes and drops it on the canvas: charts, KPI tiles, and tables your team can filter and explore for themselves. What follows is how to shape it toward exactly what you want.

## Prompting

**Name the audience and the decision.** Compare two asks against the same data:

* "Visualize this" → a chart of whatever column looks most numeric
* "Build a one-pager for our 3PL showing which SKUs are below reorder point, sorted by days of cover" → the right rows, the right sort, the right framing

**Ask for a dashboard your team can explore.** An Artifact behaves like a BI page: it's interactive on the canvas and full screen, so whoever you send it to can filter, expand a section, and drill into a row to answer their own follow-up question. Say that in the prompt and you get it in one pass:

> "Build a carrier performance dashboard: KPI tiles for on-time rate, average transit, and total spend, a filter bar for carrier and month, and a searchable table underneath. Let me click a shipment to open its full tracking history."

That single ask produces the tiles, the filter bar, the table, and the drill-down panel. Every control works instantly on data from the latest run, and viewers can download a CSV of whatever they've filtered to.

**Ask for the controls you want.** Filter bars, search boxes, tabs, toggles, sliders, sortable columns, drill-downs, and expand or collapse on grouped rows. Name them, or describe the behavior and let Prowork choose: "let me click a carrier and see just their shipments."

**Iterate instead of rewriting.** Follow-up prompts adjust the Artifact you already have: "move the totals to the top," "add a date filter," "swap the pie chart for a bar chart."

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## Styling

Every Artifact ships with default styles, so it looks polished from the first run.

**Describe the look.** Colors, fonts, spacing, general feel. "Use our brand green for positive variance and grey for everything else."

**Or upload a reference.** A brand guide, a screenshot of an existing report, or a PDF of the dashboard this is replacing. Prowork builds toward it.

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## Editing

Click **All sections** above the chat to open a checklist of everything in the Artifact: top-level sections and their sub-parts nested underneath. Uncheck **All sections** and select just the part of the Artifact you want to change, then describe the edit. Prowork updates only what's checked, instead of regenerating the whole page.

This is useful once an Artifact is mostly right and you only need to fix one part ("make this a bar chart instead," "add a filter to just this table") without disturbing the layout or data everywhere else.

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