{"id":"lead-weekly-update-ceo-three-lines","audience":"executives","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"beginner","technique":"audience","title":"Condense a messy week into a three-line update for the CEO","free":false,"task":"Your CEO reads updates on her phone between meetings. Turn your notes into exactly three lines in plain text, labeled Shipped, Risk and Decision needed. Each line is one sentence under 25 words. Use the corrected figure where the notes changed. Do not add a greeting or sign-off.","materialLabel":"Your notes for the week (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Week of Nov 4 - Platform team\n\n- Shipped the new invoice export. Early on I wrote it cut finance close time by 40%. Finance re-measured on Thursday: it is 25%.\n- Fixed 31 of 40 open bugs from the backlog.\n- Hired a staff engineer (starts Dec 2).\n- Risk: the payment vendor's API sunsets Jan 31 and we have not started migrating. Needs about 6 engineer-weeks.\n- Team morale seems ok, a couple of people tired after on-call.\n- Decision needed from Mira (CEO): approve pausing the mobile redesign for 6 weeks to do the migration. I need an answer by Friday Nov 8.\n- The office plant budget is under review, nothing for her.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Wrong structure","why":"The AI writes a paragraph or adds extra sections like 'Team morale'.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly three lines: Shipped, Risk, Decision needed.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Using the old number","why":"The AI picks 40% from the first mention.","fix":"Say: \"Finance re-measured: use 25%, not 40%.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Vague ask","why":"The AI says 'would value your input' and omits the deadline.","fix":"Say: \"State the decision and the Friday Nov 8 deadline.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Markdown clutter","why":"The AI uses bold labels and bullets.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text only.\"","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 25 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":"Names the reader","patterns":["ceo","phone","reader"]},{"label":"Lists the three labels","patterns":["shipped","risk","decision needed"]},{"label":"Limits line length","patterns":["one sentence","under \\d+ words","each line"]},{"label":"Uses the correction","patterns":["25%","correct","re-?measured","updated"]},{"label":"No greeting","patterns":["no greeting","no sign-off","no intro"]}],"hint":"Name the reader, the three labels and the line length, and tell the AI which number was corrected.","rubricLabels":["The reply has exactly three lines labeled Shipped, Risk and Decision needed, in that order","The Shipped line uses 25% (not 40%) for the finance close improvement","The Decision needed line asks Mira to approve pausing the mobile redesign for 6 weeks and gives Friday Nov 8 as the deadline"]}