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Summarize a long document
A summary prompt that names its reader and its budget — so you get the decisions and numbers that matter to you, not a shorter version of everything.
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Summarize the document below for a busy engineering manager who missed the meeting. Length budget: 150 words, then 5 bullets.
Lead with the single most important takeaway in one sentence. Then cover: what changed or was decided, any numbers that matter, and anything that requires action from the reader. Preserve exact figures and dates — do not round or paraphrase them. If the document contradicts itself or something important is missing, note that at the end instead of smoothing it over.
Document:
[paste the document, transcript or thread here]
Model-agnostic — works in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or any AI chat.
Why this prompt works
- →Naming the audience changes what survives the cut — the same report summarised "for a new hire" and "for the CFO" should keep different sentences, and the model can only do that if you say who is reading.
- →An explicit length budget beats "be concise": models pad vague requests and obey concrete ones.
- →"Preserve exact figures" targets the most common summary failure — numbers quietly rounded or dropped precisely where they carried the meaning.