Thank you for being a friend (aka a paid subscriber). You get first access to the Meeting Prep Tool, a decision-first way to build meetings that actually earn the room.

Because we've all been there — sitting through a meeting that should have been an email, or a Slack message, or nothing at all.

Meeting hygiene is real Chief of Staff work. Part of the job is deciding whether something even warrants a meeting, or whether it's better handled another way. So when you enter your meeting details, we'll tell you whether it's actually an email, something async, or a meeting worth people's time. And if you need ammunition for killing the ones that shouldn't exist, we hand you an approximate cost of each meeting, based on average salaries in major metro areas.

Here's how it works: you answer a few structured prompts (the goal, who's in the room, what has to be decided, and who makes the call), and you get back a clean, ready-to-send agenda built around decisions instead of status updates.Upload it as a PDF, Word, or text file, and the tool reads it, maps it to a decision-ready structure, tells you exactly what it's missing, and hands back a sharper version.

Either way, your finished agenda lands in your inbox.

This is in beta, so we want to hear how it went. Love it, hate it, tell us either way. Enjoy!