The two prompts
The whole system is two prompts: one that briefs you every morning, one that captures what happened after each call. Everything else on this page is the 10-minute setup that makes them run on their own.
The morning brief prompt
This is the engine. Once your calendar and email are connected, this one prompt produces a one-pager on every person you're meeting today.
The after-call debrief prompt
Thirty seconds of dot points after each call is what makes next month's briefs scary-accurate. This closes the loop.
The 10-minute setup
Connect your calendar
In Claude, open Settings → Connectors and connect Google Calendar. This is how it knows who you're meeting and when.
Connect your email
Connect Gmail the same way. This is where the context comes from — the last thread, the thing they asked about, the promise you made in March.
Test the brief once, manually
Paste the morning brief prompt into a chat on a day you have client calls. Read what comes back. If a brief is thin, that person's history mostly lives outside your inbox — add a line of context yourself and Claude includes it next time.
Schedule it
In Claude Cowork, turn the same prompt into a scheduled task that runs early each weekday morning. Now the briefs are waiting before you've had breakfast.
Claude only reads what the connectors you approve can see, when you ask it to. You can disconnect either connector any time in the same settings screen.
What a good brief looks like
Five lines. If your briefs come back longer than this, tell Claude to cut them — a brief you don't read is worse than no brief.
SARAH — 10:00am — Discovery call
Runs a bookkeeping practice, 4 staff, drowning in client email. Last contact 3 weeks ago: she asked about automating client onboarding, you sent the pricing page, she said "after EOFY". Bought: nothing yet. Raise: EOFY is done — is now the time? Owed: you promised her a checklist and haven't sent it.
Do
Debrief in dot points the same day, while you remember what they actually said.
Do
Trust "no history found" — it's the prompt working, not failing. Add context by hand once and it sticks.
Don't
Let briefs bloat past a page. The brief is for the two minutes before the call, not a dossier.
Don't
Skip the debrief because the call went fine. "Fine" calls are where the forgotten promises live.
Why this compounds
The morning brief makes you the most prepared person in every meeting. The debrief makes the NEXT brief better — decisions, promises and details fold back in, so the system gets sharper every single week. A month in, Claude reminds you of things you'd forgotten you said. That's the moment this stops feeling like admin and starts feeling like a chief of staff.
I run a version of this every morning — my briefs land before breakfast, and I walk into calls knowing where we left off without opening a single thread.
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