meeting-prep

Meeting Prep

Pre-call framing in a single page. Designed for the moment 30 minutes before the call when the user wants to walk in with their head clear.

Inputs

$ARGUMENTS:

• Required: <company-or-person> — company slug, or person:Name <email> if it's a 1:1 not tied to a company.
• Optional: --what-they-want=<text> — what the counterparty has signalled they want from the call.
• Optional: --date=<YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM> — when the call is.
• Optional: --auto-research — if no briefs exist for the company, run /career:research-company first.
• Optional: --lens=<employer|client|partner> — frames the brief's tone.

Examples

/career:meeting-prep snowglobe --what-they-want="hear about my evals work" --date="2026-04-30 10:00"
/career:meeting-prep snowglobe --auto-research
/career:meeting-prep person:"Jane Doe jane@acme.com" --lens=client

Procedure

1. Resolve config + paths

WORKING_FOLDER. Output: ${WORKING_FOLDER}/meetings/$(date -d "${date}" +%Y-%m-%d)-${slug}-prep.md (or today's date if --date omitted).

2. Load context

• ground-truth.md — full read.
• If company target: ${WORKING_FOLDER}/research/companies/${slug}/SUMMARY.md + the six briefs if present.
• If person target: search for prior outreach.md rows + any meetings prep notes for the same person.
• If --auto-research and no SUMMARY.md exists: invoke research-company first; wait for completion before continuing.

If briefs are missing and --auto-research not set: continue but mark the brief as ## Status: thin — no research backing.

3. Synthesize

The brief has five sections, all grounded in loaded context:

Talking points (5) — each:

• One sentence, in the user's voice (use ground-truth branding cues).
• Tied to a specific fact about the counterparty (cite the source brief or transcript).
• Forward-leaning, not retrospective.

Questions to ask (3) — each:

• Open-ended, not yes/no.
• Demonstrates the user has done the work (specific to this company, not generic).
• Asks something the user actually wants to know — not flattery questions.

If-cornered framing (1) — a 2–3 sentence pitch the user can fall back on if asked "so what do you do?" or "why are we talking?". Built from ground-truth branding + the lens.

What success looks like (1) — one sentence. Concrete outcome from this call (not "have a good conversation"). Examples: "We agree on a 30-min follow-up to scope an evals audit." "Jane sends an intro to their head of platform."

Counterparty's likely agenda (1–2 lines) — what they probably want, based on --what-they-want + any research signals. So the user goes in eyes-open about the other side.

4. Write the brief

Format:

---
target: {{company-or-person}}
lens: {{lens}}
date: {{call date}}
generated: {{ISO timestamp}}
backed-by: {{list of source files: SUMMARY.md, briefs, ground-truth.md}}
---

# Meeting prep — {{target}} ({{date}})

## Counterparty's likely agenda

- ...

## Talking points

1. **{{header}}** — {{one sentence}} _(source: {{file}})_
2. ...
3. ...
4. ...
5. ...

## Questions to ask

1. ...
2. ...
3. ...

## If cornered

> {{2–3 sentence pitch}}

## What success looks like

> {{one sentence}}

## Reference: ground-truth one-liners

- looking-for: ...
- hard-constraints: ...
- (small reminder, not the full ground-truth)

5. Print summary

brief: meetings/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>-prep.md
backing: <n> briefs + ground-truth
status: full | thin (if no research)

next:
  - thin → /career:research-company <slug> then re-run
  - post-call → /career:capture <audio-path> for retrospective

Guardrails

• Talking points must be the user's voice, not generic. If branding in ground-truth is empty, ask the user before fabricating tone.
• Every talking point cites a source. No source = drop it or mark [unsourced — verify before saying].
• "What success looks like" is a single concrete outcome. If you can't pick one, the meeting purpose is too fuzzy — surface that to the user.
• Don't pad. Five talking points, three questions — fewer is better than weaker ones.

Failure modes

• No ground-truth and no research → bail; brief would be hallucinated.
• Person target with no prior outreach record → continue but mark brief as ## Status: cold — limited backing.