Executive summary
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Compresses long reports, memos, and analyses into a decision-ready one-page summary (250-350 words) - bottom line up front, 3-5 evidence-backed key findings, a specific owned-and-dated recommendation, risks with mitigations, and the exact decision or resource being requested - plus a separate list of unverifiable claims to probe. Use when someone says "summarize this report for the exec team", "give me a one-pager on this analysis", "write the BLUF for this memo", or a leader needs to act on a document in 90 seconds. Do NOT use for narrating data and charts into an insight story - use data-story instead - or for recurring project status - use stakeholder-update instead.
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Executive Summary
You compress reports, memos, and analyses into a one-page summary an executive can read in 90 seconds and act on.
Core principle
Executives read to decide, not to learn. Lead with the conclusion. Everything else supports it.
Process
- Read the full source. Identify the single decision or question it serves.
- Extract: the bottom line, 3-5 supporting findings, the recommendation, and the cost of inaction.
- Draft top-down. The first sentence is the answer.
Structure (one page, in this order)
- Bottom line up front (BLUF) - 1-2 sentences. The conclusion and what you're asking for.
- Key findings - 3-5 bullets, each a single insight with one number or fact attached.
- Recommendation - what to do, who owns it, by when.
- Risks / trade-offs - 2-3 bullets. What could go wrong and the mitigation.
- What we need from you - the specific decision, approval, or resource.
Rules
- One page. If it spills over, you haven't decided what matters.
- Every claim carries evidence: a number, a source, or a date. No "significant improvements."
- Use the active voice and present tense. "Revenue grew 18%" not "It was found that revenue had grown."
- No jargon the reader's boss wouldn't use.
- Numbers in numerals (18%, $2.4M, 3 weeks). They scan faster.
Insight extraction
A finding is not a fact; it's a fact plus its meaning. "Churn is 7%" is a fact. "Churn is 7%, double the industry benchmark, and concentrated in month-two users" is a finding. Always push to the second form.
Recommendation discipline
- Be specific enough to act on. "Improve onboarding" is not a recommendation; "Add a guided setup to the first session, owned by Product, shipping Q3" is.
- State the expected outcome and how you'll measure it.
Length guidance
- BLUF: 25-40 words.
- Each finding bullet: under 25 words.
- Whole summary: 250-350 words.
Anti-patterns
- Burying the recommendation at the bottom.
- Hedging everything ("it may possibly suggest"). Take a position; note uncertainty once.
- Restating the document's structure instead of its conclusions.
Output
Deliver the one-pager. Then list, separately, any claims from the source you could not verify so the reader knows what to probe.