Order for today
- First: Decide the contract extension for the largest client.
- Sensitive to: none of the tested weightings.
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AI Chief of Staff
An assistant that prepares briefs, follow-ups and drafts for an executive within that person's permissions.
Demonstration: Aldercroft Facilities Services (fictional) · Facilities management. Fictional data and a scripted answer.
The situation
- Organisation
- Aldercroft Facilities Services (fictional)
- Who is asking
- Chief executive
- Industry
- Facilities management
- What happened
- The CEO has a day of back-to-back meetings and a long list of things that want attention, and asks an assistant what to take first.
The question asked
Of everything competing for my attention today, what should I take first?
What it reads, and who can see the result
- Today's calendar and open items feedMeetings and requests, from connected tools.
- CEO's stated priorities documentWhat the CEO has said matters this quarter.
- Reads
- The calendar and open items the CEO has connected.
- Does not read
- Email content beyond subject lines and senders the CEO allows.
- Permission
- The CEO connects each source and can disconnect it.
- Who sees it
- The CEO and the chief of staff.
Try it
Change how much each criterion matters. The ranking is recomputed, and the page tells you whether the leader would survive a different judgement.
- 1Decide the contract extension for the largest clientExpires Friday.Serves this quarter's priorities: 5A deadline today: 4Only the CEO can do it: 5Costly to delay: 54.76
- 2Approve the revised capital planBoard paper due Monday.Serves this quarter's priorities: 4A deadline today: 3Only the CEO can do it: 5Costly to delay: 33.84
- 3Respond to a regulator's information requestLegal has drafted a reply.Serves this quarter's priorities: 2A deadline today: 5Only the CEO can do it: 3Costly to delay: 43.40
- 4Call the unhappy depot managerA morale risk, building.Serves this quarter's priorities: 3A deadline today: 2Only the CEO can do it: 4Costly to delay: 33.04
- 5Meet the new head of salesA courtesy; moveable.Serves this quarter's priorities: 3A deadline today: 1Only the CEO can do it: 4Costly to delay: 12.40
- 6Review the quarterly newsletterComms can proceed without.Serves this quarter's priorities: 1A deadline today: 2Only the CEO can do it: 1Costly to delay: 11.24
Leader's margin over the next option: 0.92. The leader holds under every weighting tested.
The answer
Simulated answer. Written for this fictional case, not produced by a live model. Only the figures in it are computed, from what you decided above.
With these weights the first thing for the CEO today is: Decide the contract extension for the largest client (score 4.76).
Each item is scored against the CEO's own priorities and the clock [S1][S2]. The order is holds under the weightings tested; it would change if none of the tested weightings.
The assistant proposes an order; the CEO decides. An item that only the CEO can do deserves more weight than one anyone could handle, and the weight on that is the CEO's call.
Relies on: S1 · Today's calendar and open itemsS2 · CEO's quarterly priorities
Review and approval
The chief executive decides. Approving sets the day's order and asks the assistant to draft holding replies for the items deferred. It does not send anything.
Ready for the reviewer.
In the product this is a different person with the right permission. Here you play that role to see the rule.
What it produces
Limits of this example
- The assistant sees only what is connected.
- A late-breaking event overrides any plan.
- This is a scripted demonstration on fictional data. No model was called and no real organisation, person or result is shown.
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