🎮 The Next Input — Issue #023

An AI Board Pack + Your GPT-5 Readiness Plan

Aaron Bost
August 01, 2025

⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec

Enterprises now prefer Claude over everyone — including OpenAI. Claude Code is the new corporate crush; legal teams adore the Swiss-bank privacy vibe.
OpenAI plants its first EU data-center in Norway. GDPR gods sing hallelujah; latency-haters hum along.
Big Tech keeps breaking the bank on AI — investors keep cheering. Cash burn? Yes. Cash panic? Nah — Jensen and Satya say “hold my dividend.”

🛠️ The Playbook — Quarterly Board-Pack Builder

Mission Auto-compile finance, product, and OKR metrics into a polished slide deck—charts and CEO talking points—in < 30 min.
Difficulty Advanced | Build time 90 min
ROI Execs & analysts reclaim ≈ 15 h per quarter (5 h per exec + 10 h analyst prep).

Step	Action
1	Trigger – Zapier Schedule → First business day after Q-end, 06:00.
2	BigQuery Jobs – Run saved queries for revenue, churn, DAU/WAU, feature adoption.
3	Sheets API – Dump query results into `Board_Pack_Data_Q{n}.xlsx`.
4	Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Prompt: “Using the attached XLSX, draft: (a) KPI summary slide, (b) three wins, (c) three risks, (d) CEO narrative (≤120 w).”
5	Slidebean API – Generate deck: cover → KPI charts → Claude bullets.
6	Drive & Permissions – Save deck to `/Board Packs/{Year}/Q{n}.pptx`, share with board group.
7	Gmail – Email “Draft Board Pack Ready” to CEO & CFO with deck link.
8	Fail-safe – If any data source fails, Slack #ops-alerts and skip Claude call to avoid bad numbers.

Pro tip: Add a second Claude call to localise narrative bullets (🇯🇵, 🇪🇸, etc.) before emailing international board members.

📈 The Strategy Guide — GPT-5 Readiness Playbook

A seismic upgrade is coming. GPT-5 will redraw the line between “assistant” and “analyst.” In the full guide you’ll learn:

Stage, don’t speculate — have sandboxes ready today.
Clean a “Golden Ticket” corpus so GPT-5 ingests gold, not sludge.
Process-map one complex workflow (support escalations are perfect).
Day-zero pilot — Autonomous Discovery-Call Analyst that writes ROI recaps.
Guardrail — mandatory human sign-off on anything touching money or reputation.

Read the Full Step-by-Step Guide

🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Prompts

Asset	What it does	Link
RenewalIQ	Detects churn signals from invoices + usage.	https://renewaliq.app
Recombee GPT	Real-time product-recommendations powered by LLMs.	https://recombee.com/gpt
Noteable AI Notebooks	SQL + Python notebooks with autocomplete GPT hints.	https://noteable.io/ai
Prompt · 11-Word Risk Alert	Paste risk → instant Slack banner.

Condense this renewal risk into exactly 11 urgent, crystal-clear words.

💡 Free Office Hours

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Book a free 15-minute Office Hours slot—no sales pitch, just workflows solved.

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🕹️ Game Over

Automate one board-pack task tonight—next quarter’s prep will thank you.
Share your win; you could headline Issue #024.

— Aaron
Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.

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