Build a promotion case your manager can actually take upward
Wanting it isn't a case. Give them the document a promo committee wants.
- Use it for
- Anyone preparing to make the case for their own promotion.
Most self-written promotion cases are a list of things the person did, which puts the actual argument-building work on the manager — translating "I shipped X, Y, Z" into "this person operates at the next level because of specific evidence A, B, C" is a different task than listing accomplishments, and if you don't do it, your manager has to, often imperfectly, under time pressure, right before a promotion committee meeting.
This prompt builds the actual argument — mapped to the level you're targeting — not just a list of what happened this cycle.
When not to use this
If your company's promotion process is informal and mostly about a quick conversation, this level of document-building may be more than the process calls for — ask what actually gets used for promo decisions there first.
Did this work?
Your manager could take the document into a promotion committee largely as-is and make the case on your behalf, without having to translate your list of accomplishments into their argument themselves.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.