--- name: executive-roadmap-summarizer description: "Converts detailed product roadmap content into a one-page executive summary structured around strategic themes, business outcomes, risks, and decisions needed — calibrated for a leadership audience that reads in under two minutes. Use when preparing a quarterly business review, a leadership roadmap update, a board-facing product summary, or condensing a dense planning doc for executives." argument-hint: "[roadmap-content] [audience]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Executive Roadmap Summarizer ## Purpose Compress a detailed product roadmap into a single-page executive summary that leads with business outcomes, surfaces risks and decisions needed, and strips out feature-level noise — so leadership can grasp direction, tradeoffs, and asks in one read without wading through the source doc. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Prepare a roadmap summary for a quarterly business review (QBR) or leadership update - Condense a detailed planning doc, PRD, or epic list into an executive-friendly format - Create a board-facing or C-suite version of a product roadmap - Translate feature-level roadmap work into business outcomes and themes - Highlight risks, dependencies, and decisions leadership needs to weigh in on - Turn a sprint or quarter's worth of roadmap detail into a leadership talking-points doc ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Roadmap content**: The source material — a doc, list of initiatives, epics, or planning notes - **Time horizon**: The period covered (e.g., Q2, next two quarters, H2) - **Audience**: Who reads this — exec team, board, CEO, cross-functional leadership - **Strategic goals**: The 2–4 company or product goals this roadmap should ladder up to - **Known risks or blockers**: Dependencies, resourcing gaps, or timeline threats worth flagging - **Decisions needed**: Any tradeoffs or asks that require leadership input this period - **Prior-period context**: What shipped last period or what commitments were carried over (optional) If strategic goals aren't provided, infer them from the roadmap content and state the inferred goals explicitly so leadership can correct them. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Extract and Cluster into Strategic Themes Read the full roadmap and group individual initiatives into 3–5 strategic themes. - A theme is an outcome or bet (e.g., "Reduce activation friction," "Expand enterprise readiness") — not a feature name - Each initiative in the source must map to exactly one theme; if something doesn't fit a theme, it's likely noise to cut or a signal the theme set is wrong - Name each theme in outcome language a non-PM executive would understand at a glance - Discard implementation detail (specific tickets, technical tasks, UI states) — these belong in the source doc, not the summary ### Step 2: Translate Each Theme into Business Outcome For every theme, write one crisp line answering: *what changes for the business if this succeeds?* - Frame in metrics or business terms where possible (revenue, retention, activation, cost, risk reduction) - Avoid feature-speak — "ship SSO" becomes "unblock enterprise deals that require SSO" - Where a metric target exists in the source, include it; where it doesn't, state the directional outcome ### Step 3: Map Themes to Strategic Goals Show the ladder: each theme should connect to one of the strategic goals provided or inferred. - Use a simple alignment marker (theme → which goal it advances) - Flag any theme that doesn't clearly ladder to a stated goal — this is a strategic gap worth naming, not hiding - If a stated goal has no theme supporting it, note the coverage gap ### Step 4: Assign Status and Confidence For each theme, assign: - **Status**: On track / At risk / Behind / Not started - **Confidence**: High / Medium / Low — the team's confidence in hitting the horizon - Use "At risk" and "Low confidence" honestly; a summary that's all green erodes trust and buries the real conversation ### Step 5: Surface Risks and Decisions Needed Separate two distinct sections leadership cares about most: - **Risks & blockers**: Dependencies, resourcing gaps, timeline threats — each with the impact if unresolved - **Decisions needed**: Specific asks requiring leadership input this period — each phrased as a clear question or tradeoff, with the recommendation if one exists - Rank both lists by consequence, highest first ### Step 6: Write the Headline Open the summary with a 1–2 sentence bottom line: the single most important thing leadership should take away about where the roadmap stands and what it needs from them. Write this last, after the themes are clear. ## Output Format - **Structure**: One-page summary opening with a headline, followed by a themes table, then risks and decisions sections - **Length**: 350–550 words — must fit on a single page and read in under two minutes - **Format**: Headline as prose; themes as a table (Theme | Business Outcome | Strategic Goal | Status | Confidence); risks and decisions as ranked bullet lists - **Sections**: Headline → Strategic Themes table → Risks & Blockers → Decisions Needed → (optional) What Shipped Last Period - **Tone**: Executive-facing — confident, plain-language, outcome-first; no jargon, no feature lists, no hedging on status ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] Total length is under 550 words and fits one page - [ ] Every theme is written as a business outcome, not a feature name - [ ] Every theme maps to a stated or inferred strategic goal, and any gaps are flagged - [ ] The themes table includes Status and Confidence for all themes, with at least honest use of At-risk/Low where warranted - [ ] Decisions Needed are phrased as specific asks with a recommendation, not vague open questions - [ ] The headline states a clear bottom line and does not simply restate the theme list ## Notes - The most common failure mode is smuggling feature detail into an executive doc — if a line would only make sense to someone on the product team, cut it or translate it up a level - An all-green status report is a red flag; executives trust summaries that name real risk more than ones that look clean - When strategic goals are inferred rather than provided, always show the inference so leadership can correct the framing — a misaligned ladder is worse than no ladder - This summary is a companion to the detailed roadmap, not a replacement; the source doc stays available for anyone who wants depth --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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