Leadership & Strategy

Executive Decision Log Summary AI Prompt

It’s hard to keep decisions clear once meetings pile up. Notes scatter across docs, Slack, and calendars. Then your team forgets what you decided, who owns what, and what changes next week.

A strong prompt turns your raw decision log into a crisp, repeatable update. You’ll capture the decision, the why, the trade-offs, and the follow-through in one place. AskSmarter.ai gets you there by asking the missing questions up front, like audience, cadence, risk level, and required actions.

In this page, you’ll learn how to prompt an AI to:

  • Extract decisions and owners
  • Flag open questions and risks
  • Produce a weekly leadership-ready summary

You’ll save time and reduce rework with a single source of truth.

The transformation

Before — Vague prompt

Summarize our leadership decisions from last week and tell everyone what to do next.

After — Optimized prompt

You’re a Chief of Staff creating a weekly decision log summary.

Input: I’ll paste meeting notes and a running decision log.

  1. Extract only confirmed decisions (ignore ideas).
  2. For each decision, write: Decision, Why now, Owner (name/role), Due date, Dependencies, Risks, Next step.
  3. Add a section: Decisions needing confirmation with 3-5 bullet questions.

Audience: exec team + functional leads. Tone: direct, neutral, no hype.

Format: 10-item max, table first, then 120-word narrative recap.

Why this works

The improved prompt works because it removes guesswork and forces consistency.

It adds clear intent by specifying the output: a weekly decision log summary, not a generic recap. It adds context by naming your role and the audience, so the AI writes at the right level. It adds structure with a fixed set of fields per decision, which makes owners and due dates easy to scan.

It also sets boundaries:

  • It tells the AI to include only confirmed decisions.
  • It caps the list at 10 items.
  • It requires a table plus a short narrative.

AskSmarter.ai helps you reach this quality by asking focused questions you might skip, like what counts as a “decision,” who reads the update, and which fields your team needs to execute. That upfront clarity produces a summary your leaders can act on right away.

When to use this prompt

  • Founders running fast weekly exec meetings

    Turn scattered notes into a weekly decisions summary with owners and dates, so nothing slips between meetings.

  • Product managers aligning roadmap trade-offs

    Capture confirmed product calls, the rationale, and dependencies to keep engineering and go-to-market in sync.

  • Customer success leaders tracking policy changes

    Summarize service decisions, escalation rules, and risks into a format your managers can roll out the same week.

  • Engineering leaders managing cross-team dependencies

    Extract decision owners and blockers from technical reviews and publish a single list of next steps for leads.

Pro tips

  • 1

    Define what qualifies as a decision so you don’t mix in brainstorms or options.

  • 2

    Specify your cadence and length limits so the summary fits your weekly rhythm.

  • 3

    Name the roles that must take action so the AI assigns owners in your preferred format.

  • 4

    Add your risk threshold so the AI flags only issues you’d raise in an exec forum.

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Your turn

Build a prompt for your situation

This example shows the pattern. AskSmarter.ai guides you to create prompts tailored to your specific context, audience, and goals.