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AI-Forward Insights for the Modern Chief of Staff
THIS WEEK'S BRIEF
A founder asked me last month, half-joking: "If the AI writes the brief, what do I need you for?"
It landed because I'd been asking a version of the same thing.
Here's the honest answer I've come to. The briefs, the summaries, the first-draft decks, the parts of my job that AI is taking over, were always the most visible ones. The value lived in the judgment behind them.
THE USE CASE
For 2 years, my weekly exec brief was the proof I was on top of things. Now an agent produces it in minutes, and it's good.
Once I got over that, I looked at what I did with the time it gave back. I spent it on the call before the call, reading which decision the CEO was quietly avoiding. Deciding what not to put in front of the board. That was the judgment. The document just made it legible.
The brief was the receipt. The work was the judgment behind it, and that's the part AI still can't touch.
THE PROMPT (members only)
The full weekly audit prompt is for CoS Signal members, along with the prompt library and everything else members get. Founding rate is locked at $14.99/month or $99/year.
THE SIGNAL
McKinsey raised its estimate of the work activities generative AI could automate to 60 to 70% and found it hits knowledge work hardest: the drafting, summarizing, and first-pass analysis that used to feel like the safe, skilled part of the job. For Chiefs of Staff, the tasks that make you look busy are the first to go. The ones that make you trusted are not.
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THE RESOURCE
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ONE MORE THING
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Until next week,
Stephanie
CoS Signal, by the AI Empowered CoS
P.S. The ideas, frameworks, and words in this piece are my own. I used AI to assist with design and file production.