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3 steps
Start with the synthetic worked example or other non-sensitive inputs. Run one prompt at a time in your chosen AI tool. Replace any bracketed placeholders with the requested material, check each reply, and supply the source or earlier outputs that step needs. Paste them again if the tool lacks that context.
Start with the synthetic example, then adapt each prompt to your task.
01
Open a chat and use the complete sample
Open https://chatgpt.com. If you have access, choose New chat. Copy all the instructions below (the prompt), including the SAMPLE INPUT, into the message box and send it. You do not need to upload a file. You should see a five-item agenda whose minute ranges total exactly 25 minutes. The wording can differ from the worked example, but the facts and constraints must agree. If you cannot access this service, use another text assistant available to you; account requirements and limits may differ.
Your starting prompt
Write a 25-minute agenda with elapsed minute ranges, purpose, lead role and expected result for each item. Distinguish update, discussion and decision. Explain how to handle a heading decision that cannot be reached. Use only the supplied facts; mark missing information rather than inventing it. Return written text only. Do not send, publish or change anything in another service.
SAMPLE INPUT
Made-up example for practice. All people, organizations, records and product behavior below are fictional.
Meeting: Cedar help-page review. Duration 25 minutes. Attendees: page editor, support lead, design lead. Confirmed goal: choose one of two supplied page headings. Heading decision needs 10 minutes; support lead brings three recurring questions for discussion, needing 7 minutes. A factual update that the layout is approved needs 2 minutes. Reserve 3 minutes at the end to restate decisions and unresolved questions. Use the remaining 3 minutes to confirm the goal and heading decision criteria. No other decisions are authorized. The group may defer the heading if evidence is insufficient. Proposed leads: page editor chairs goal-setting, heading choice and read-back; design lead presents the layout update; support lead presents the questions.
02
Compare, correct and save
Compare the answer with the complete sample input and the checks below. The agenda uses 3 + 2 + 7 + 10 + 3 = 25 minutes with no gaps or overlaps. If a fact is missing, changed or invented, paste the correction prompt below into the same chat. Read the revised result again; if it still fails, correct the text yourself before using it. Copy the reviewed result into a new note or text document. Keep real publication, decisions and sending for a separate human review.
Your starting prompt
Check your previous answer against the SAMPLE INPUT in my first message. Test each point below. For a failure, show the problem and then return a complete corrected answer; for a missing source fact, keep it explicitly unknown. Do not invent a successful check.
- The agenda uses 3 + 2 + 7 + 10 + 3 = 25 minutes with no gaps or overlaps.
- The layout is an information item, not reopened for a decision.
- Deferring the heading remains an allowed outcome.
03
Optional: use your own facts
Open a new chat. Copy the prompt below and replace [PASTE YOUR INPUT HERE] with your own non-sensitive source text, facts and limits for this task. Include any desired headings, count or length. Send the whole message. Expect the same kind of written result, using your facts. Check every source fact and limit yourself; the example’s names and totals do not apply. If a detail differs, show the exact mismatch and ask for a complete correction. Save the checked draft before any separate decision to use or send it.
Your starting prompt
Make an agenda from my topics, available minutes, lead roles and decision rules below. Show elapsed time ranges, purpose, lead and expected result for each item. Separate updates, discussions and decisions. Check the total and flag any conflict. Preserve what should happen if a decision cannot be reached.
Use only my input. Ask for information needed to finish rather than guessing. Return written text only; do not send, publish, book, submit or change another service.
MY INPUT
[PASTE YOUR INPUT HERE]
Optional: improve the result
Prepare a decision card
Give participants a one-screen record for the only decision in scope. This extension uses the worked example. Return to that example chat, or paste its input and your checked example answer into a new chat first. Do not apply its sample values unchanged to your own input.
Advanced prompt
Make a blank heading-decision card with fields for option A, option B, agreed criteria, evidence, selected option or deferred, and missing information. Leave the actual heading text blank because it was not supplied. Keep the same SAMPLE INPUT from my first message unless I explicitly replace it.
Show, then try
See the shape of the result.
This input is synthetic. The output is a written illustration of the intended result, not a verified AI-tool run.
01 / The starting point
Synthetic input
Made-up example for practice. All people, organizations, records and product behavior below are fictional.
Meeting: Cedar help-page review. Duration 25 minutes. Attendees: page editor, support lead, design lead. Confirmed goal: choose one of two supplied page headings. Heading decision needs 10 minutes; support lead brings three recurring questions for discussion, needing 7 minutes. A factual update that the layout is approved needs 2 minutes. Reserve 3 minutes at the end to restate decisions and unresolved questions. Use the remaining 3 minutes to confirm the goal and heading decision criteria. No other decisions are authorized. The group may defer the heading if evidence is insufficient. Proposed leads: page editor chairs goal-setting, heading choice and read-back; design lead presents the layout update; support lead presents the questions.
Copies text only. For image or file tasks, use the source files named in the steps too.
Worked example written for this guide, not output recorded from a live AI session.
Cedar help-page review | 25 minutes
00–03 | Confirm goal and heading criteria | Page editor
Purpose: Agree what the heading needs to communicate. Result: Criteria for today’s one decision.
03–05 | Layout update | Design lead
Purpose: Information only. Result: Everyone knows the layout is approved.
05–12 | Three recurring support questions | Support lead
Purpose: Discussion. Result: Understand the questions the heading should help address.
12–22 | Choose between the two headings | Page editor
Purpose: Decision. Result: Select one heading or state the evidence still needed.
22–25 | Read back the outcome | Page editor
Purpose: Confirm the selected heading and unresolved questions. If deferred, record what is missing; do not label either heading approved.
Bring: the two heading options and the support lead’s three questions.
These checks use the worked example and its particular facts. With your own material, check your actual names, numbers, sources and rules; do not reuse the sample’s values as the answer.
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A few things to watch for.
An agenda is a proposal for using time, not evidence that a meeting happened.
Do not quietly add decisions or promise that a disagreement will be resolved.