Brief a collaborator in one message.
The message you send when you hand off work to someone else — with the context, the assumption they might miss, and the specific first move.
You're handing something to a teammate. They're bright and busy. If your first message is a wall of text or three vague sentences, they'll come back with questions. This prompt writes the message that doesn't need a follow-up thread.
THE PROMPT
Write a one-message brief for a collaborator taking over a piece of work from me. Paste the context below. The message must include: - One sentence naming what they're taking over and why. - The 3 most-important facts they need before starting, no more. - The specific first move (not a list of "here are some options"), phrased as "I'd start by X". - One assumption I'm making that they should push back on if wrong. - One sentence at the end offering a specific, low-friction way to reach me (not "let me know if any questions"). Warm, direct, short. No greeting, no signoff — this goes into an existing chat. Context: [PASTE CONTEXT HERE]
Taking over the Q3 pricing analysis from me — I'm out next week and this is due Friday.
Three facts: (1) the CSV in /pricing-q3/raw has been cleaned as of Wed EOD, don't re-clean it. (2) The comparison is against Q1 not Q2 — that's Alex's ask, not a mistake. (3) The 'enterprise' segment is 12 accounts, not the 40 the CRM shows; the other 28 are prospects and shouldn't count.
I'd start by re-running the ARR-weighted price change calc against the cleaned CSV — the raw output goes into Slide 4. Everything else builds from that.
Assumption I'm making: Alex wants a chart per segment, not a combined view. Push back if you think a combined view lands better.
Anything unclear, ping me on Slack — I'll check twice a day, ~9a and ~5p PT.