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Write the BLUF for week one
Four decisions, four fires.
Made for people in Government
Build a First-Week Brief for a New Political Appointee
35 min
Intermediate
Government
Career outcome:
Save Professional Time
Give them the decision calendar and landmines, not the agency history since 1974.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Appointees drown in briefing books.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Map the org and information flow
Who actually runs what.
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Build the decision calendar
Dates drive chaos.
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Draft the meeting plan
Curated, not exhaustive.
Make Your Play
Build a First-Week Brief for a New Political Appointee
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Known priorities, confirmation themes, relationships.
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Litigation, press, IG, budget, hiring freezes.
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Direct reports, career leads, White House or Hill contacts.
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What you'll do
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01
Write the BLUF for week one
Four decisions, four fires.
02
Map the org and information flow
Who actually runs what.
03
Build the decision calendar
Dates drive chaos.
04
Draft the meeting plan
Curated, not exhaustive.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
A new principal arrives Monday, or you inherited briefing prep with 48 hours left.
You'll need
- Principal profile and priorities
- Current fires and deadlines
- Org and key players
You'll get
- A a first-week brief: org map, fires, decisions due, and who to trust you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a first-week brief: org map, fires, decisions due, and who to trust you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
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