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title: Maia by Make best practices
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description: Help Maia create more accurate scenarios with these prompting and testing tips. 
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Follow these tips to help Maia create more accurate scenarios in fewer interactions with you.

### Specify the goal and workflow steps

A clear, detailed prompt helps Maia build scenarios that align with your expectations. Outline your goal, the step-by-step process for achieving it, and the apps used.

**Prompt examples**

- Create a scenario that watches all emails with the `marketing` label in **Gmail**, summarizes them with **Claude,** and sends a message with the summary to the private `marketing-department` channel in **Slack**. 
- I want a scenario that uses **OpenAI** to analyze the sentiment of customer replies, then stores the sentiment analysis summary in **Airtable**.
- Build a scenario that watches for new `Closed Won` deals in **Salesforce**, creates an onboarding project in **Asana**, and sends a welcome email to the client with** Claude** and **Gmail**.

### <font color="#0C121D">Keep prompts</font> <font color="#0C121D">short</font>

Focus on what you want the scenario to do, not your manual workflow. Multi-page prompts increase the chance that Maia overlooks specific steps or details. They also often produce large, complex scenarios, which can require more debugging or rebuilding than scenarios that you build gradually.&#x20;

### Test your scenarios

Test the scenarios that you build with Maia by clickin&#x67;**&#x20;Run once**. Ask Maia to modify them until they work as intended before activating and using them in production.&#x20;

### Collaborate with Maia&#x20;

If any of Maia's steps don't make sense, ask her to explain, or give her feedback. Similarly, Maia sometimes needs more information from you to understand the logic of a scenario.