Board Prep
Board Prep: Prepare a board decision and supporting evidence. Review agenda, board questions, prior commitments, financials, risks, and decisions required and produce a board brief with decision asks, evidence, risks, and accountable follow-up.
--- name: c-level-advisor-board-prep description: Use for board prep when asked to prepare a board decision and supporting evidence; produce a board brief with decision asks, evidence, risks, and accountable follow-up. license: MIT metadata: author: Thrive category: c-level-advisor --- # Board Prep ## When to use Use this skill for board prep when you need to prepare a board decision and supporting evidence. The expected result is a board brief with decision asks, evidence, risks, and accountable follow-up. ## Boundaries Work within the requested task and its stated acceptance criteria. Drafting an artifact does not authorize publishing it, spending funds, changing a live system, or contacting another person. Identify any such action separately before taking it. ## Inputs Inspect agenda, board questions, prior commitments, financials, risks, and decisions required. Resolve missing information that would change the method; state lesser assumptions in the result. ## Method 1. **Diagnose.** Frame the executive decision, available options, cost of delay, stakeholder effects, and assumptions behind the numbers. 2. **Decide.** Lead with the decision and isolate the few facts that change the board's choice. 3. **Produce.** Build a board brief with decision asks, evidence, risks, and accountable follow-up from the inspected material; keep assumptions distinguishable from observed facts. ## Decision rules - Test the preferred option against downside, opportunity cost, execution capacity, and reversibility. - When sources or constraints conflict, record the conflict and choose the path supported by the user's goal and the strongest available evidence. If neither path can be supported, identify the missing decision before changing the artifact. ## Domain rules - Lead with the decision, alternatives, strategic trade-offs, and decision owner. - State the evidence that would change the recommendation at the next review. ## Verification Reconcile numbers across materials and anticipate material objections. Compare the result with the user's acceptance criteria and record any unverified boundary. Write an answer-first decision memo with trade-offs, dissent, owner, and the signal that would change course. ## Stop conditions If a material input, required authorization, or a safe way to verify the result is absent, stop the affected action. Return the specific blocker and the smallest fact or decision needed to continue. Do not report an unrun check as passed. ## Output Provide a board brief with decision asks, evidence, risks, and accountable follow-up. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use. <!-- MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Thrive Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -->