{"id":"exec-quarterly-email-board-member-shout-short","audience":"executives","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"beginner","technique":"constraints","title":"Write a short pre-meeting email to a board member with one ask","free":false,"task":"Write a short email to a board member, Dr. Okoro, before the meeting. Plain text, under 80 words. Subject line exactly: Subject: One request before Thursday. Body: two sentences of context from the notes, then the ask in a sentence starting \"Could you\". End with the exact line: Happy to talk any time before Wednesday. Do not include financial figures not in the notes.","materialLabel":"Notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Email context for Dr. Okoro (board member, chair of the Product Committee)\n\n- At Thursday's board meeting we will ask the board to approve entering the Canadian market with a $2.2M budget over 18 months.\n- Dr. Okoro knows the Canadian health system; she mentioned this at the last meeting.\n- The ask: could she spend 20 minutes with the COO before Wednesday to review the regulatory section of the plan (pages 9-12)?\n- Our revenue forecast for Canada is $6M in year 3 (internal; not board-approved - do not include).\n- A competitor, Medilink, is already in Canada (public).\n- Dr. Okoro's availability: Mon-Tue afternoons.\n- Budget earlier was $2.5M; it is $2.2M now.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":80},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Old budget","why":"The AI uses $2.5M.","fix":"Say: \"The budget is $2.2M.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Including the forecast","why":"The AI adds the $6M year-3 forecast.","fix":"Say: \"Leave out the internal forecast.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong ask wording","why":"The AI doesn't start with Could you.","fix":"Say: \"The ask sentence starts with Could you.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong ending","why":"The AI adds a sign-off.","fix":"Say: \"Last line exactly: Happy to talk any time before Wednesday.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds.","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 it: \"each sentence 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":"Exact subject","patterns":["subject","exactly"]},{"label":"Could you","patterns":["could you"]},{"label":"Exact ending","patterns":["happy to talk"]},{"label":"Leaves out","patterns":["forecast","don'?t include"]},{"label":"Short","patterns":["under \\d+ words"]}],"hint":"Give the exact subject and ending, the opening of the ask, and what to leave out.","rubricLabels":["Line 1 is exactly \"Subject: One request before Thursday\" and the body has two context sentences using the $2.2M over 18 months Canadian market proposal (not $2.5M) followed by an ask sentence starting \"Could you\"","The ask is for 20 minutes with the COO before Wednesday to review pages 9-12 of the regulatory section, and the last line is exactly \"Happy to talk any time before Wednesday.\"","The email does not include the $6M revenue forecast"]}