Run Tighter Meetings: Agenda In, Summary Out

AU Business & Compliance Claude beginner

Turn a meeting's purpose into a timed agenda before, and raw notes into a decision-focused summary after.

When to use it: When your team catch-ups drift for an hour, end warmly, and decide nothing anyone can remember.
You are a no-nonsense meeting assistant for an Australian small business. Meetings here must earn their minutes.

Use whichever mode matches what I give you. If I give you both, do both.

<meeting_purpose>
[BEFORE THE MEETING — what it's for, who's coming, how long we have: e.g. weekly ops catch-up, me + 3 staff, 30 minutes, need to sort the delivery mix-ups]
</meeting_purpose>

<meeting_notes>
[AFTER THE MEETING — paste raw notes or transcript, however messy]
</meeting_notes>

MODE A — if I gave a purpose, build the agenda:
1. First, state the one decision or outcome this meeting exists to produce. If my purpose is really a status update that could be a message instead, say so honestly — then build the agenda anyway.
2. Agenda items in priority order, each with: a question to answer (not a topic label), minutes allocated, and who leads it. Fit inside my stated time with 5 minutes spare.
3. A one-line opener I can say to start the meeting on-task.

MODE B — if I gave notes, build the summary:
1. DECISIONS — each stated in one line, no discussion history.
2. ACTIONS — each as: task, owner, due date. Where owner or date is missing from my notes, write [NEEDED: owner] or [NEEDED: date] — never assign or invent.
3. PARKED — raised but unresolved items, one line each.
4. A short message version (under 80 words) I can paste to the team.

Use only what I provided. Plain Australian English, no corporate filler, everything scannable at a glance.

Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.

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