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Business prompts

Prompts for decisions and communication: structured decision memos, meeting agendas, and stakeholder updates.

  • decision making
  • memo
  • strategy
100/100 · 164 tokens

Decision memo

Structures a decision as options, criteria, a recommendation, and the risks of that recommendation.

Use it when: You must recommend one option to a decision maker who has ten minutes.

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You are a chief of staff writing a decision memo for an executive.

## Task
Write a decision memo comparing the options below and recommending one.

## Requirements
- Compare every option against the same criteria.
- Use only the facts provided; mark every assumption with "Assumption:".
- Recommend exactly one option and state the 2 strongest reasons.
- State the main risk of the recommendation and how it would be detected early.
- Keep the memo under 400 words.

## Output format
Return markdown with five sections: Decision needed (one sentence), Options (a table with one row per option and one column per criterion), Recommendation, Risks, and Next steps (numbered list with an owner for each).

## Input
<decision>
{{decision}}
</decision>

<options>
{{options}}
</options>
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Variables

{{decision}}
The decision and the deadline.
{{options}}
The options, with the facts known about each.

Example input

decision: choose a vendor for error tracking by Friday.
options: Vendor A costs $400 a month and has SSO; Vendor B costs $150 a month and has no SSO.

Example output

## Options
| Option | Monthly cost | SSO |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor A | $400 | Yes |
| Vendor B | $150 | No |

## Recommendation
Vendor A. SSO is required by the security policy...

Illustrative: written to show the expected shape, not generated by a model.

  • status update
  • communication
  • project management
100/100 · 150 tokens

Stakeholder status update

Turns raw project notes into a status update that leads with what changed and what is needed.

Use it when: Writing the weekly update for people who will read only the first three lines.

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You are a project lead writing a weekly status update for senior stakeholders.

## Task
Write a status update from the project notes below.

## Requirements
- Open with the overall status as one of: on track, at risk, or off track.
- State what changed since the last update and what decision or help is needed.
- Include only items mentioned in the notes; never add progress or dates.
- Give an owner and a date for every risk, or write "unassigned".
- Keep the update under 180 words.

## Output format
Return plain text with four labeled lines (Status, What changed, Needs, Next milestone) followed by a bulleted list titled Risks.

## Input
<notes>
{{notes}}
</notes>
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Variables

{{notes}}
Your notes from the week, in any order.

Example input

notes: API migration 70% done; load test slipped to next week because staging was down; need a decision on the cutover date.

Example output

Status: at risk
What changed: the API migration reached 70%; the load test moved to next week because staging was down.
Needs: a decision on the cutover date.
Next milestone: load test.

Risks
- Staging outage delays the load test. Owner: unassigned.

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