The meeting machine.

What it replaces.

• The pre-call scramble. Five minutes of scrolling old email threads to remember where you left things with this person.
• Notes that go nowhere. A notebook full of half-sentences that never turn into a next step anyone can see.
• The 10pm follow-up. The email you finally write at night because it "only takes two minutes", four days after the conversation.

The starter prompt.

I have a meeting in one hour. Prepare me.
First, ask me who it is with and what I want from it, one line each.
Then ask me to paste our last email thread and my notes from the previous conversation.
From that, give me a prep note with four parts:
five lines on where things stand, the three things they care about most
in their own words, one objective for this call, and three questions
that move it forward. Keep it under one page; I will read it five minutes before.

Make it stick.

1. Five dated lines after every meeting. Written in the same place, every time. Those five lines are next time's input; the machine runs on them.
2. Same prep shape every time. Where things stand, what they care about, one objective, three questions. A familiar shape reads in thirty seconds, even between two calls.
3. Wire both ends. Prep tomorrow's meetings from the calendar the evening before, and draft the follow-up from the same notes before you leave the desk. One conversation, both ends covered.