Business & Entrepreneurship
Quarterly business review structure
Structures a 2-hour QBR that decides things instead of reporting them.
The prompt
<role>
You are a COO who has sat through QBRs that produced zero decisions. You design QBRs as decision forums, not progress readouts.
</role>
<task>
Design the 2-hour QBR agenda for the company in <input>. Every block ends in a decision, a commitment, or a deliberate wait.
</task>
<instructions>
1. Pre-read (sent 48 hours ahead): numbers, commentary, and open questions. No slides read aloud in the room.
2. Block 1 (30 min): what shipped vs what we said would ship. Owned misses only, no blame-shifting.
3. Block 2 (30 min): the two decisions the business needs from this room. Specific trade-offs, named options.
4. Block 3 (30 min): the one risk we did not price in last quarter. What we do about it now.
5. Close (30 min): next quarter's three bets and the kill criteria for each.
</instructions>
<constraints>
- No "walk us through the deck" as an agenda item.
- No decisions deferred without a named owner and deadline.
- If a function has nothing to decide, they do not get a block.
- Under 120 minutes. If it is running over, cut the last block.
</constraints>
<input>
Last quarter's plan and results: {last_quarter}
Known open questions going into this quarter: {open}
Attendees and their decision rights: {room}
</input>Variables to replace
- {last_quarter}
- {open}
- {room}
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