Steal these.

You are my chief of staff. Below is everything that landed in my inbox since yesterday.

Sort it into exactly three lists and nothing else:

1. WAITING ON ME. Something stops until I answer. For each one: who, what they asked, how long they have waited, and the one-line answer you would send if you were me.
2. WORTH KNOWING. I should see it, but nobody is blocked. One line each.
3. HANDLED OR NOISE. Just a count. Do not list them.

Rules: no preamble. No summary of my inbox. If nothing is waiting on me, say 'Nothing is waiting on you' and stop. Never invent a deadline that is not written in the email.

INBOX:
[paste your email here]

Here is tomorrow's calendar and every past email and note I have with these people.

For each meeting, give me one short block:

WHO: name, title, company, and how we met.
LAST TIME: what we actually talked about, and the date.
I PROMISED: anything I said I would do and have not done. If nothing, say 'nothing open'.
THEY WANT: what they are trying to get out of this, in one line.
ASK THIS: the single best question I can ask, based only on what is in front of you.

Rules: never guess a fact about a person. If it is not in the material, write 'not in my records'. Keep every block under 100 words. Skip internal meetings with my own team.

CALENDAR AND HISTORY:
[paste here]

Read this call transcript. I only want commitments, nothing else.

Give me two lists:

I OWE THEM. Every single thing I said I would do. Quote the line where I said it. Add a due date only if one was actually spoken.
THEY OWE ME. Same thing, for everyone else on the call.

Then one line: the next thing that has to happen for this to move, and who moves it.

Rules: a commitment is a promise to act, not a vague 'we should'. Do not include ideas, opinions, or small talk. If somebody hedged, put it under I OWE THEM and mark it 'soft'. No summary of the call.

TRANSCRIPT:
[paste here]

Below is an export of my contacts. Each row has a name, a company, a title, and how or when we connected.

I want to reach: [COMPANY OR PERSON].

Find me the three strongest paths in. For each one:

WHO: the person in my own list.
WHY THEM: the actual connection, read off the data, not guessed.
HOW STRONG: strong if we have real history, weak if it is one connection and nothing else. Say which.
THE ASK: the two-sentence message I send them, written so a busy person can forward it without editing.

Rules: only use people who are actually in my export. Never invent a relationship. If nobody in my list has a real path, say 'no path in your network' and stop. Do not pad the list to three.

MY CONTACTS:
[paste your LinkedIn or CRM export here]

Here are a business's financials. I am deciding whether to buy it or lend to it.

Work out, and show the arithmetic in plain numbers:

1. Reported profit for each year.
2. Cash actually produced: profit, minus money spent on equipment, minus money tied up in inventory and unpaid customer invoices.
3. The ratio between the two. Under 70 cents of cash per dollar of profit is a flag. Say so plainly.
4. Where the gap went. Inventory piling up? Customers paying slower? Equipment the business cannot skip?

Then three questions I should ask the owner, based on what you found.

Rules: if a number I need is missing, say exactly which line you need and stop. Do not estimate it. Do not tell me whether to buy. No jargon: write it so my father could follow it.

FINANCIALS:
[paste here]

Below are the open job postings for one company, copied from their careers page.

Tell me what these postings reveal about the business:

GROWING OR BLEEDING: are they adding capacity or backfilling people who left? Say which and why you think so.
WHAT IS BROKEN: a role that exists because something is not working. Name it.
WHO RUNS IT: seniority of the roles, and whether the owner is still doing jobs an employee should do.
LICENSED OR NOT: how many roles need a licence, a certification, or years in the trade. This tells me how hard the business is to copy.
THE TELL: the single posting that says the most, and what it says.

Rules: base every claim on a specific posting and quote the words. If the postings do not support a conclusion, say 'cannot tell from this'. No speculation about their finances.

POSTINGS:
[paste here]

Here is a list of companies I care about, and a pile of news from the last seven days.

Return only items that would change a decision I make. For each one:

COMPANY: which one.
WHAT HAPPENED: one line, plain words.
WHY IT MATTERS TO ME: one line, tied to my stated interest below.
WHAT I COULD DO THIS WEEK: one specific action, or 'nothing yet'.

End with a single line: the number of items you read and discarded.

Rules: leadership changes, layoffs, funding, lawsuits, closures, new locations and ownership changes count. Awards, product launches and marketing do not, unless they change who buys from them. If nothing qualifies, say 'quiet week' and stop.

MY INTEREST: [one line, for example: I want to buy companies like these, or these are my competitors]
COMPANIES: [paste list]
NEWS: [paste here]

I am about to send the text below to an outside service. Before I do, replace every identifying detail with a consistent placeholder.

Replace, do not delete or blur:

People to PERSON_1, PERSON_2, and keep the same person as the same number throughout.
Companies to COMPANY_1, COMPANY_2.
Email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, account numbers and any government ID to TYPE_1, TYPE_2.
Exact dollar amounts to a rounded band, for example $2.4M becomes ABOUT $2M.

Then give me two things: the rewritten text, and a key showing what each placeholder stood for so I can put the real names back afterwards.

Rules: keep the meaning and the structure exactly. Do not summarize. If you are unsure whether something identifies a real party, replace it.

TEXT:
[paste here]