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name: exec-brief-1pager
description: Turn complex business, product, and operational topics into a one-page executive brief with decision-ready insights, options, and recommended actions. Use this whenever users ask for an executive summary, leadership brief, one-pager, decision memo, CEO brief, or key points at a glance for senior leadership; use it for one-page decision support, not for recurring status updates or board meeting packs.
category: Writing & Reporting
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# Exec Brief 1Pager

## Overview

Condense complex business, product, operational, or strategic information into a one-page executive brief that supports fast decision-making.

This skill is for:
- Executive summaries
- Decision memos
- Leadership one-pagers
- Strategic update briefs
- Concise issue overviews

## Triggering Cues

Use this skill when user messages include:

- write an executive summary
- create a one-pager
- leadership brief
- decision memo
- concise strategy update
- summarize this for executives

## Input Requirements

Ask for or infer:

1. Background and objective
2. Key facts and metrics
3. Options or paths forward
4. Recommendation
5. Audience level and urgency

## Output Format

Always output:

1. **Context**
2. **Key Insights**
3. **Options with Trade-Offs**
4. **Recommendation**
5. **Impact / Metrics / Immediate Next Actions**

## Workflow

1. Identify what executives actually need to decide or know.
2. Remove low-value detail.
3. Surface the highest-signal facts and implications.
4. Frame options clearly with trade-offs.
5. End with a direct recommendation and immediate actions.

## Examples

### Example 1
Input:
- Summarize a delayed product launch and decision options for leadership.

Output style:
- Crisp and decision-oriented
- Show trade-offs between delay, reduced scope, and added staffing
- End with a recommended path

### Example 2
Input:
- Convert a long strategy discussion into a one-page update for the CEO.

Output style:
- Highly compressed
- Focus on implications, not process details
- Clear recommendation and metric impact

## Guidelines

- Write for speed of comprehension.
- Prefer bullets over long paragraphs.
- Keep options mutually understandable and decision-ready.
- Do not bury the recommendation.