Get up to speed on a new topic with an executive briefing
A fast primer on an unfamiliar topic: what it is, why it matters to your business, key players, debates, jargon, and smart questions to ask.
The prompt
Help me get up to speed quickly on a topic I need to understand for work.
Topic: [e.g. "EU AI Act", "agentic AI in customer service", "nearshoring"]
My role and why I need it: [e.g. "operations director; meeting with a vendor next week"]
What I already know: [nothing / basics / some]
Time I have to read: [e.g. 10 minutes]
Material I have, if any: [PASTE articles or notes, or "none"]
Return:
1. Bottom line - what this is and why it matters to someone in my role, in 4-5 sentences.
2. The essentials - the 7-10 things I most need to know, ranked.
3. Key terms - the jargon I'll hear, each defined in one line.
4. Key players - organizations, vendors, regulators, or people to know, and their position.
5. Where people disagree - the main debates and the strongest argument on each side.
6. What it means for my business - opportunities, risks, and what peers are doing.
7. Smart questions to ask in my next meeting on this.
8. Where to go deeper - the types of sources worth reading.
Rules:
- Separate settled facts from contested claims and predictions.
- If you can browse, cite sources with dates. If you can't, say what your knowledge is based on, note it may be out of date, and mark recent developments [VERIFY].
- Never invent statistics, quotes, or sources.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- e.g. "operations director; meeting with a vendor next week"
- nothing / basics / some
- e.g. 10 minutes
- PASTE articles or notes, or "none"
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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