Produces long-form business and consulting reports with a standalone executive summary, three-level heading hierarchy, and skimmability rules that let a busy reader navigate in under two minutes. Use when someone asks "write up this analysis as a report", "structure my strategy brief", "turn these findings into a client deliverable", or "make this document skimmable for executives". Do NOT use for presenting user-research findings to a product team - use research-readout instead; for a one-paragraph-to-one-page condensation of an existing document, use executive-summary; for slide-based delivery, use slide-deck-builder; for academic papers, use academic-essay.
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name: Formatted Report Writer
description: Produces long-form business and consulting reports with a standalone executive summary, three-level heading hierarchy, and skimmability rules that let a busy reader navigate in under two minutes. Use when someone asks "write up this analysis as a report", "structure my strategy brief", "turn these findings into a client deliverable", or "make this document skimmable for executives". Do NOT use for presenting user-research findings to a product team - use research-readout instead; for a one-paragraph-to-one-page condensation of an existing document, use executive-summary; for slide-based delivery, use slide-deck-builder; for academic papers, use academic-essay.
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# Formatted Report Writer
A business report has two audiences: the executive who reads only the summary, and the analyst who reads everything. The costly failure this skill prevents is the report that serves neither - findings buried in chronology, a summary that teases instead of concludes, and a busy reader who gives up before reaching the recommendation they were supposed to approve.
## Operating procedure
### Step 1: Gather inputs - do not draft until these are settled
Answer in one sentence each; if the requester cannot, propose an answer and label it a guess:
1. What decision or action does this report enable?
2. Who is the primary reader, and what do they already know?
3. What must the reader believe by the end?
4. Register: formal (board, regulatory) or plain (internal ops)? Default: plain.
5. Source material: the findings, data, and analysis to be structured.
If these are unclear, the structure will be unclear - settle them first.
### Step 2: Build the skeleton
… install to load the full skill