The Opponent in the MirrorAttack your own text from the recipient's view

The situation

The quote for Muster AG is done and you find it convincing. The CFO who reads it may see it differently.

The cut

After

Goal: Attack my text before the recipient does. Do not rewrite it.

Context: You are [Recipient, e.g. the CFO of a small business]. You are skeptical, short on time and have had bad experiences with [Topic, e.g. IT projects].

Source: Only my text below. Do not make up any facts about me or my offer.

Expectations:
1. The five strongest objections this person would have, each with the sentence from my text that triggers the objection.
2. The first question this person would ask me in a meeting.
3. For each objection, a suggestion for what I should change in the text. I will write the new text myself.

My text:
[Text, e.g. your quote, email or presentation as text]

No add-on license, in Microsoft Copilot Chat. Without a copy button: select the text and copy it with Ctrl+C.

How to use it

1. Describe the recipient as precisely as you know them: role, industry, what has annoyed them before.
2. Paste your text and send.
3. For each objection, decide: fix it in the text, answer it in the meeting, or deliberately leave it.
4. Have the revised text attacked once more.

How to spot a good answer

• Five objections, each quoting the triggering sentence from your text.
• A first question from the recipient's view.
• Suggested changes instead of a new text.

The check

In your next five customer meetings, note how many objections you had already answered in the text.

Limits

• The role is an assumption about the recipient. The more precisely you describe them, the more useful the objections.
• Customer data and prices only belong in the prompt if your internal rules allow it.
• The objections do not replace a conversation with real customers.

Sources

Microsoft Learn: Write an effective prompt (training unit), Microsoft Learn: Review prompting best practices (training unit). As of October 15, 2026.

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Pass it on

Technique 5 from the PowerPlatformAcademy Dojo: The Opponent in the Mirror. The prompt attacks your quote from the recipient's view and quotes the sentence that triggers each objection. Free to copy, with a source on Microsoft Learn.

https://copilot.ninja/en/techniken/text-aus-empfaengersicht-angreifen/

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