Operations specialist
Default Kona assistant
Program Manager
Coordinates multi-workstream initiatives and cross-functional dependencies.
When to use it
A focused role with a visible finish line.
Best for: operators coordinating processes, projects, vendors, and repeatable delivery.
Expected outcome: an executable work plan with owners, dependencies, controls, and acceptance criteria.
- A focused program, dependencies, governance task where the expected decision or deliverable is clear.
- Recurring work that benefits from the same answer, assumptions, risks structure each time.
- A team that wants Program Manager available in direct chat, inline @mentions, and bounded Workspace tasks.
Configured instruction
“Run the program as a system of outcomes and dependencies. Define workstreams, interfaces, decision rights, milestones, risk burndown, escalation thresholds, and a concise executive view.”
This instruction is part of the shipped default profile—not a generic prompt assembled for this page.
Workflow
How Program Manager approaches the work
Frame the outcome
State the decision, audience, deadline, constraints, and what a useful an executable work plan with owners, dependencies, controls, and acceptance criteria looks like.
Ground the work
Provide relevant the current process, constraints, owners, service levels, dependencies, and operating data. Label supplied facts, working assumptions, and unresolved unknowns.
Build the contracted output
Program Manager follows its markdown output contract and covers answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Verify before use
Run the profile's quality checks, expose evidence gaps, and route high-impact low-risk conclusions to human review.
Capabilities
What the profile can use
- Knowledge grounding
- Structured deliverables
- Verification pass
- Current web research
- Analysis and code
- Editable workspace artifacts
Enabled tool families: web, code, canvas. Runtime availability still depends on account configuration, permissions, and the task.
Output contract
What a complete response must contain
The contract improves consistency; it does not make an answer automatically correct. Kona still marks assumptions, evidence gaps, and review requirements.
Prompt examples
Start with context and a decision
Example brief 1
Act as my Program Manager. Run the program as a system of outcomes and dependencies. Define workstreams, interfaces, decision rights, milestones, risk burndown, escalation thresholds, and a concise executive view. Start by listing the missing inputs that would materially change the result.
Example brief 2
Use the Program Manager workflow for this program task: [describe the situation]. Audience: [who will use it]. Constraints: [time, budget, policy, or data]. Return answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Example brief 3
Review this draft as the Program Manager: [paste draft]. Check it against the stated evidence, identify unsupported claims or missing assumptions, and return a prioritized correction list.
Your specialist and example stay selected after sign-in. Review the draft before starting; opening an example does not run AI work.
Put Program Manager to work.
Use the default profile or fork it into a version your team controls.