{"id":"exec-consulting-summary-for-ceo-recommendation","audience":"consultants","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"audience","title":"Write an executive summary of a consulting finding for the CEO","free":false,"task":"Write an executive summary for CEO Marcus Webb in plain text, under 120 words. Line 1: Recommendation: and one sentence. Then exactly 3 dash lines with the evidence, each with one number. Then one line starting \"Risk if we wait:\" and a final line starting \"Decision by:\" with the date. Use the corrected numbers only and no consulting jargon such as synergies, leverage or optimize.","materialLabel":"Analysis notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Warehouse consolidation analysis - Corbin Foods (fictional)\n\n- Option: close the Dayton warehouse and serve Midwest customers from Columbus.\n- Annual savings: $1.9M in lease and labor (an earlier draft said $2.4M; the lease figure was wrong; $1.9M is the corrected total).\n- One-time cost: $3.1M (moving, severance, lease exit). Payback in about 20 months.\n- Delivery time to Midwest customers rises from 1.2 days to 1.6 days on average.\n- 14% of Dayton volume is from two customers who have contractual 1-day delivery; they'd need an expedited lane costing $0.3M a year (included in the $1.9M).\n- The Dayton lease option to extend closes on Jan 15; after that rent rises 8%.\n- Board meets Jan 9.\n- Climate risk, optimizing synergies... (consultant jargon to avoid).","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":120},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using the old savings","why":"The AI says $2.4M.","fix":"Say: \"Savings are $1.9M (corrected).\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Jargon","why":"The AI uses 'optimize synergies'.","fix":"Say: \"No consulting jargon.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Missing the deadline","why":"The AI ends without a date.","fix":"Say: \"End with Decision by: and the date.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds the recommendation.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each line: \"each line under 22 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead, for example: \"each line under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Starts with recommendation","patterns":["recommendation:"]},{"label":"Three evidence lines","patterns":["3 (dash )?lines","three"]},{"label":"Risk and decision","patterns":["risk if we wait","decision by"]},{"label":"Jargon ban","patterns":["jargon","synergies","leverage"]},{"label":"Corrected numbers","patterns":["corrected","\\$1\\.9"]}],"hint":"Give each line's job and label, the jargon ban and the corrected figure.","rubricLabels":["Line 1 starts with \"Recommendation:\" and gives one sentence, and the next three lines each start with a dash and include one number such as $1.9M savings (not $2.4M), $3.1M cost with about 20 months payback, or delivery rising from 1.2 to 1.6 days","A line starts with \"Risk if we wait:\" and refers to the Jan 15 lease option and the 8% rent rise, and the final line starts with \"Decision by:\" giving a date on or before Jan 9","Does not use the words synergies, leverage or optimize"]}