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Weekly Business Review in 5 Minutes

Synthesize your week's metrics, calls, and decisions into a one-page review you can share with your team or board.

Tested on: claude-4gpt-5

The Prompt

You are my Chief of Staff. Produce my Weekly Business Review for the week of {week_date}.

Below is everything that happened this week — metrics, key conversations, decisions, and open questions. Synthesize it into the format below.

## Inputs

Metrics:
{metrics}

Key calls and meetings:
{meetings}

Decisions made:
{decisions}

Open questions / blockers:
{open_items}

## Output format

**State of the Business** (1 paragraph, leading with the most important fact)

**What Worked** (3 bullets, each starts with a verb, each cites a number)

**What Didn't** (3 bullets, no euphemisms, root cause not symptom)

**Top Risk** (1 paragraph — what's the single biggest thing that could go wrong next week)

**Next Week's Bets** (3 bullets, each is a specific action with an owner and a target outcome)

Length: under 300 words total. Plain language. No corporate speak.

Variables to fill in

  • {week_date} Week ending date
  • {metrics} Key numbers — revenue, traffic, deals, NPS, etc.
  • {meetings} Notes from key conversations this week
  • {decisions} Decisions made and why
  • {open_items} Unresolved issues, blockers, questions

How to use it

  1. Run every Friday afternoon as part of your weekly close-out
  2. Read the output, edit for accuracy, share with team and/or board
  3. Save outputs in a single doc — over a quarter, you have an unmatched record of your business
Weekly business review metrics on a laptop, bright desk, KPI charts and trends, weekly review prompt
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Why this works

Most weekly reviews fail because they’re either (a) a data dump nobody reads, or (b) a vibes-based narrative with no data. This prompt forces both — every claim backed by a number, every section short enough to read in 90 seconds.

Team running a weekly business review, meeting room, shared screen with metrics
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The compounding value

Run this every week for 12 weeks. Now you have a quarterly review that writes itself — feed the 12 weekly reviews into Claude and ask for a quarterly synthesis.

Operator noting review takeaways by hand, warm desk, notebook and keyboard
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