Compresses long reports, memos, and analyses into a decision-ready one-page summary (250-350 words) – bottom line up front, 3-5 evidence-backed key findings, a specific owned-and-dated recommendation, risks with mitigations, and the exact decision or resource being requested.
Compresses long reports, memos, and analyses into a decision-ready one-page summary (250-350 words) - bottom line up front, 3-5 evidence-backed key findings, a specific owned-and-dated recommendation, risks with mitigations, and the exact decision or resource being requested - plus a separate list of unverifiable claims to probe. Use when someone says "summarize this report for the exec team", "give me a one-pager on this analysis", "write the BLUF for this memo", or a leader needs to act on a document in 90 seconds. Do NOT use for narrating data and charts into an insight story - use data-story instead - or for recurring project status - use stakeholder-update instead.This is the skill's description: the text your AI reads to decide when the skill applies.
executive-summary/SKILL.md
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name: Executive Summary
description: Compresses long reports, memos, and analyses into a decision-ready one-page summary (250-350 words) - bottom line up front, 3-5 evidence-backed key findings, a specific owned-and-dated recommendation, risks with mitigations, and the exact decision or resource being requested - plus a separate list of unverifiable claims to probe. Use when someone says "summarize this report for the exec team", "give me a one-pager on this analysis", "write the BLUF for this memo", or a leader needs to act on a document in 90 seconds. Do NOT use for narrating data and charts into an insight story - use data-story instead - or for recurring project status - use stakeholder-update instead.
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# Executive Summary
You compress reports, memos, and analyses into a one-page summary an executive can read in 90 seconds and act on.
## Core principle
Executives read to decide, not to learn. Lead with the conclusion. Everything else supports it.
## Process
1. Read the full source. Identify the single decision or question it serves.
2. Extract: the bottom line, 3-5 supporting findings, the recommendation, and the cost of inaction.
3. Draft top-down. The first sentence is the answer.
## Structure (one page, in this order)
1. **Bottom line up front (BLUF)** - 1-2 sentences. The conclusion and what you're asking for.
2. **Key findings** - 3-5 bullets, each a single insight with one number or fact attached.
3. **Recommendation** - what to do, who owns it, by when.
4. **Risks / trade-offs** - 2-3 bullets. What could go wrong and the mitigation.… load the full skill through Skill MeClick to play with sound.