Board Communication That Improves Decisions
Source-grounded pack with Design Board Decision Packet, Draft Board Decision Memo, and Run Board Communication Cadence, plus 2 more.
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Design Board Decision Packet
Use this workflow when a CEO, CFO, or board liaison must turn company reality into a board packet organized around governance, risk, strategic counsel, approvals, decisions, tradeoffs, resources, and explicit asks rather than a polished operating update.
Output specification
Return a board decision packet architecture with meeting_outcome, board_need_map, ceo_cfo_narrative, opening_contract, decision_covers, governance_and_risk, decision_memory, main_deck_outline, appendix, and time_plan.
Draft Board Decision Memo
Use this workflow when management needs board approval, advice, pressure testing, or alignment on a strategic choice and must state the decision, real options, recommendation, evidence, tradeoffs, risks, resources, delay cost, authority, follow-ups, and reopening conditions.
Output specification
Return a board decision memo with decision_and_board_role, context_and_why_now, criteria, options, recommendation, tradeoffs_risks_and_resources, delay_cost, dissent_and_uncertainty, authority_if_disagreement, and decision_record_template.
Run Board Communication Cadence
Use this workflow when a company must operate or audit the full board cycle across calendar, pre-reads, CEO-CFO alignment, pre-briefs, committees, meeting flow, executive sessions, decision/follow-up memory, interim updates, AI assistance, confidentiality, and decision yield.
Output specification
Return a board communication operating system with backward_calendar, roles_and_alignment, pre_read_and_prebrief, meeting_decision_flow, decision_and_followup_log, interim_update_rules, ai_preparation_controls, decision_yield_audit, and repair_priorities.
Select Board Metrics
Use this workflow when a board packet has too many operational or vanity metrics and management must choose a small stage-appropriate set tied to governance, risk, strategy, capital allocation, company health, judgment, leading signals, owners, and possible decisions.
Output specification
Return a board metric set with board_questions, selected_vital_signs, definitions_and_owners, expected_vs_actual, leading_and_trailing_pairs, judgment_sentences, uncertainty_and_learning, decision_thresholds, and appendix_moves.
Write Candid Board Narrative
Use this workflow when management must explain progress, setbacks, uncertainty, changing conviction, or material risk to a board plainly, with exposure, mitigation, residual risk, triggers, owners, response, and crisis cadence rather than spin or indiscriminate oversharing.
Output specification
Return a candid board narrative with plain_facts, prior_belief_and_change, interpretation_and_uncertainty, progress_and_setbacks, material_risks, mitigation_residual_and_triggers, owner_and_board_role, and crisis_cadence_if_needed.
Keep consequential decisions explicit.
These workflows structure analysis and artifacts; they do not authorize autonomous external, personnel, financial, legal, security, or other high-impact action.