Meeting Prep Brief

Most people walk into meetings cold: they skim the invite, guess at the agenda, and spend the first ten minutes calibrating. This skill turns any calendar invite into a one-page brief — who is in the room, what they care about, what the meeting is probably about, and the three to five questions that will make you the sharpest person on the call. Follow the playbook and you can prep for a high-stakes meeting in five minutes instead of thirty.

Produce a single, scannable pre-meeting brief from a calendar invite plus publicly available research. The brief's job is practical, not encyclopedic: give the user (a) a reliable picture of who they are meeting, (b) the most likely agenda and decision points, (c) their own objectives and talking points, and (d) sharp, meeting-specific questions — all on one page they can review in five minutes before joining.

• Before any meeting where walking in prepared matters: first calls, vendor evaluations, interviews (either side), investor/pitch calls, partnership talks, skip-levels, customer escalations, board/committee sessions.

• When the user says "prep me for," "brief me on," "what do I need to know before," or drops a calendar invite asking for context.

• When the user forwards an invite with little or no description — this skill shines on thin invites.

• Recurring status standups with the same internal team and no new attendees — the overhead is not worth it; offer a 30-second variant instead.

• Personal/social events where researching attendees would be inappropriate.

• Meetings whose topic is strictly confidential and where the user asks you to dig for non-public information about attendees — stick to public sources only, always.

• When the invite arrives less than ~5 minutes before the meeting and the user needs the brief now: give them the 30-second variant (attendees + one-line agenda guess) rather than the full brief.