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intermediate Communication Meetings 18:41 · Apr 12, 2026

Meeting Notes → Action Items → Follow-ups, Without You

Every meeting ends with a clean summary, typed action items, and one follow-up email per attendee already drafted. You don't open your notes app. You barely re-read the meeting.

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THE PROMPTS

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01

Meeting summary and actions

Claude Sonnet 4.5
You are taking minutes for a working meeting. Below is the verbatim transcript. Produce a single structured output with exactly these sections: SUMMARY, DECISIONS, OPEN QUESTIONS, ACTIONS.

ACTIONS should be JSON lines of { "owner", "action", "due", "blocks" }. Do not invent decisions. If ownership was unclear, put "UNASSIGNED" as the owner.

TRANSCRIPT:
<<paste the transcript here>>
02

Per-attendee follow-up drafts

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Using the ACTIONS list below, draft one short follow-up email per owner. Each email addresses them by first name, contains only the items THEY own, includes the due date if present, and ends with a one-sentence prompt for them to confirm or push back. Tone: collaborative, not extractive.

Signature: [my first name]

ACTIONS:
<<paste the ACTIONS list here>>
03

The "things we did not decide" audit

GPT-5
Compare the recap to the raw transcript. Produce two lists: SUPPORTED (claims in the recap directly backed by the transcript) and INVENTED (claims that cannot be traced). Also flag any place the recap wrote "we decided X" where the transcript actually shows open disagreement. Be harsh.

TRANSCRIPT:
<<paste transcript here>>

RECAP:
<<paste recap here>>

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Full transcript +
The meeting is the easy part. What you never find time for is the hour of follow-up afterward: the recap, the action list, the four emails to the four people who owe you four different things by next Tuesday. This workflow rebuilds the hour from three prompts. The first takes the raw transcript and produces a structured summary with decisions, open questions, and typed actions. The second takes the actions and generates one short email per owner, in your voice. The third prompt is the safety net. It runs the recap back through a second model to flag anything the recap claims was "decided" that the transcript doesn't actually support. The whole chain runs in Zapier or Make. Transcript lands in a folder, prompts run in sequence, drafts appear in Gmail, action items sync to Linear or Asana. You review, you adjust, you send.

The meeting is the easy part. What you never find time for is the hour of follow-up afterward. This workflow makes the hour vanish.

The insight

The recap-and-follow-ups problem is three jobs stacked: extract structure from unstructured speech, personalize per attendee, and verify that nothing was invented. A single prompt tries to do all three and fails at all three. Chain the prompts and each one gets a clean, verifiable job.