A Long Report Turned Into a Decision Brief

A Long Report Turned Into a Decision Brief

Turn a contract, policy or tender into an obligations table with pages and exact wording, then hunt the clauses summaries always drop.

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What it is for

A structured extraction pass that converts a long document into a table of obligations, costs, deadlines and exact wording with page numbers, followed by targeted sweeps for money, dates, missing annexes and discretionary language. Use it when you must sign, bid, comply or decide. It prevents the clause that only becomes visible after it has cost you something.

The skill

Use this when you have to act on a document - a contract, a policy, a tender,
a report - not merely understand it.

Paste this after uploading:
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Read the whole document and build a table with one row per item and these
columns: Item | What it requires | Who it binds | Deadline or trigger | Page |
Exact wording.
Include only items that create an obligation, a cost, a deadline, a condition,
or a right to end the agreement.
Use the document's own words in the last column. Write "not stated" in any
cell the document does not fill - never infer it. List nothing that is not in
the document.
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Then ask each of these as its own separate message:
- Every amount, rate, fee, penalty and threshold, with its page.
- Every date and every period, and what starts each clock running.
- Every reference to another document, schedule, annex or standard that was
  not included in this file.
- Every sentence containing "may", "at its sole discretion", "reasonable",
  "from time to time" or "subject to" - these are the places where the meaning
  gets decided later, by somebody else.
- What a reader would assume this document covers that it does not.

Finish by pulling the five rows that carry the most money or the hardest
deadline, and opening every one of those pages yourself.

The failure this prevents: a tidy summary that reads well in a meeting and
leaves out the auto-renewal clause, because nobody asked the question that
would have surfaced it.

How to install it

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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