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Weekly report: from log to decision material
Most weekly reports read 'did A, B, C this week' and leave the reader with nothing to act on.
Prompt
Turn this week's log into a report.
What I did this week (brain dump):
{{log}}
My role: {{role}}
Who reads it: {{reader}}
The real blocker this week: {{blocker}}
Four paragraphs, under {{words}} words total:
1. One-line conclusion: what moved, how far from the goal.
2. Three results: outcomes not activities ('cut X from 3 days to 1', not 'improved X').
3. One blocker: what or who it is stuck on, what support is needed, two options for the reader to pick.
4. Two things next week, each with a definition of done.
Do not write: process detail, hours worked, stacked adjectives.What to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- {{log}}: the messier the better; tidying is its job
- {{reader}}: manager / founder / other teams
- {{blocker}}: the highest-value line, do not skip it
- {{words}}: e.g. 250
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- Offering two options turns the report into a decision the reader can make in one line.
- Watch the outcome rule — models default to listing activities.