# Executive Reading Pass

Compress content for time-limited decision makers while preserving the decision, evidence, options, risk, uncertainty, constraints, and required context.

## Usage note

Use this pass on an evidence-backed draft when a time-limited decision maker needs a clear path through it. Concision is not permission to remove uncertainty, dissent, cost, or risk. Keep the supporting analysis accessible and ensure a responsible expert confirms that the compressed version preserves the conditions and evidence behind the recommendation.

## How to use this template

1. Identify the decision maker, required decision, deadline, current state, and consequence of action or delay.
2. Extract the recommendation, alternatives, decisive evidence, uncertainty, cost, dependencies, and risks.
3. Build a layered summary that removes repetition while keeping the decision logic intact.
4. Link evidence and assign clear owners, dates, and escalation points.
5. Ask expert and executive-context reviewers to restate the brief, then resolve meaning gaps.

## Blank template

### Decision layer

- **Decision required:** [Approve, choose, defer, monitor, or act]
- **Decision owner:** [Role or group]
- **Needed by:** [Date and reason]
- **Current state:** [Two or three verified facts]
- **Recommendation:** [One bounded action]
- **Why now:** [Trigger or consequence]
- **Requested next step:** [Named owner and action]

### Evidence and options

- **Decisive evidence:** [Claim, source, and relevance]
- **Option A:** [Benefits, costs, constraints]
- **Option B:** [Benefits, costs, constraints]
- **Do-nothing option:** [Consequence and uncertainty]
- **Key dependency:** [What must be true or available]
- **Strongest risk:** [Likelihood, impact, mitigation]
- **Important uncertainty:** [What is not known]
- **What changes the recommendation:** [Threshold or event]
- **Supporting analysis:** [Accessible source location]

### Preservation checks

- [ ] The decision and deadline appear before background.
- [ ] The recommendation is distinguished from verified facts.
- [ ] Meaningful alternatives and inaction are visible.
- [ ] Cost, risk, uncertainty, and dependencies remain in the top layer.
- [ ] Numbers and claims retain traceable evidence.
- [ ] Specialist terms are defined without changing meaning.
- [ ] Actions have owners, dates, and success conditions.
- [ ] Reviewer restatement matches the full analysis.