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Define the problem and exit
Start and stop.
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Scope an Interagency MOU Before Lawyers Inherit a Vague Handshake
40 min
Intermediate
Government
Career outcome:
Save Professional Time
Set boundaries, money, and data sharing before the MOU becomes a permanent argument.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Interagency MOUs fail when purpose is aspirational and funding is "TBD." Scope upfront saves months of counsel ping-pong.
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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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Assign roles and deliverables
RACI without the jargon.
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Resolve funding and data
TBD isn't a plan.
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Package for counsel
Questions, not essays.
Make Your Play
Scope an Interagency MOU Before Lawyers Inherit a Vague Handshake
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
Agencies, offices, why now, statutory hook if any.
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Who does what, systems, timelines.
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Money, in-kind, PII, retention, FOIA.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Define the problem and exit
Start and stop.
02
Assign roles and deliverables
RACI without the jargon.
03
Resolve funding and data
TBD isn't a plan.
04
Package for counsel
Questions, not essays.
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
Two agencies agreed to "partner" verbally, or an MOU draft is stuck on roles and money.
You'll need
- Partners and purpose
- Deliverables and roles
- Funding and data sensitivities
You'll get
- A an MOU scope sheet: purpose, parties, deliverables, funding, data, and termination you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A an MOU scope sheet: purpose, parties, deliverables, funding, data, and termination you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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