Daily Prompt Pack: Board Updates – Turn a status dump into investor-grade notes

Board updates usually mean late nights reformatting scattered Slack threads and half-remembered metrics. I wrote these to cut that whole ritual down to about twenty minutes. Today’s topic: board updates that read like they were written by someone with a plan, not a firehose.

[Claude]

Given a raw status dump from my week (metrics, wins, blockers, customer quotes), reorganize it into a board update with these sections: Executive Summary (3 bullets max), Metrics that moved, Decisions needed, and Asks. For each metric, show last value, new value, and the one-line story behind the change. Output as plain text with bold section headers, no tables, and flag any data point you cannot verify from the input.

[ChatGPT]

I run a 9-person SaaS and send a board update every month. Take this week’s raw notes and rewrite them as a single-page update written for a busy investor. Lead with the ONE number that matters most this week, then give wins, risks, and the specific decision I need from the board. Cut every metric that does not connect to cash, retention, or runway. Output in 250 words or fewer.

[Cursor]

Create a board_update.md template in this repo that I can reuse each week. It must read a data.csv of metrics and a notes.md of raw updates, then produce a formatted board update with the week-over-week delta for each metric, a wins/blockers/asks section, and a footer listing the two things I am doing next. Add a Makefile task named ‘board’ that runs it from the repo root.

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