Use cases and guides

What teams run in Sands every week. Pick your team or industry for a guide with the jobs, a prompt for each, and the setup that fits.

By team

Product teams

Briefs to plans, scope trade-offs, status with numbers.

Engineering

RFCs to tickets, what is blocked, board work in plain language.

Marketing

Campaign plans with owners and sign-offs, stakeholder updates.

Operations

Status across projects, delivery hours, chasing late work.

Agencies

From the client brief to the hours on the invoice.

Consulting

SOW to workplan, review prep, hours by engagement.

Software and SaaS

Specs into sprint-ready work, standup answers, release retros.

Financial services

Reviewed change and status with evidence.

Job	Try asking
Plan a project from a brief	Turn this client brief into a 6-week plan for Ana, Ben and June
Plan a sprint	Plan a sprint Oct 19 to Oct 30 for the loyalty program. Legal signs off by Oct 27.
Check on a project	Where is the website project at? Client call in 20 minutes
Bill a client	Hours report for Acme in September, excluding internal tooling
Run a retro	Retro for the last sprint on LUM. What shipped and what didn't?
Work the board	Create a task for the team project review, assign it to me, due Friday
Post an update	Post a summary of what finished in WEB this week to #website
Unstick a backlog	LUM has 50 open issues and nothing done in 2 weeks. What should we cut first?

Try asking

Here is the client brief for the new About page. Turn it into a project plan.

The use case library shows several of these as replays of real runs.