Autofill required fields when creating a new potential?

Autofill required fields when creating a new potential?

We don't have a use for the majority of the required fields in the Potentials module.  We don't have defined stages that would map to a probability percent, we only have a very broad idea of what the revenue on a project will be until after we complete the project, and just a general sense on if a prospect is near term, mid term, or long term.  So we are creating new fields that allow for broad categorization of these areas, and I'm moving the required fields that do not fit with our business into a section at the bottom since they can not be changed or removed completely.

I want these fields to be as unobtrusive as possible though, so I was hoping there might at least be a way to set some arbitrary default date and amount to autofill when we create a new Potential, so that users can just ignore these fields entirely.  Is something like this possible through customization?