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Executive Assistant

Preparing briefing materials and meeting prep

Automates◐ 1–3 years

What You Do Today

Before every important meeting, your executive has what they need — background on who they're meeting, context on the topic, relevant documents, and any landmines to be aware of.

AI That Applies

AI auto-generates meeting briefs from CRM data, past correspondence, news, and organizational documents. Compiles relevant background without manual assembly.

Technologies

How It Works

For preparing briefing materials and meeting prep, the system draws on the relevant operational data and applies the appropriate analytical models. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The output — meeting briefs from CRM data — surfaces in the existing workflow where the practitioner can review and act on it. The intelligence layer — what your executive needs to know that isn't in any system.

What Changes

Briefing packets assemble automatically from multiple data sources. AI pulls the relevant context without you manually searching through files and emails.

What Stays

The intelligence layer — what your executive needs to know that isn't in any system. The political context, the personal dynamics, the 'watch out for this topic.'

What To Do Next

This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.

1

Establish Your Baseline

Know where you are before you move

Before adopting AI tools for preparing briefing materials and meeting prep, understand your current state.

Map your current process: Document how preparing briefing materials and meeting prep works today — who does what, how long it takes, where the bottlenecks are. You need this baseline to measure improvement.
Identify the judgment points: The intelligence layer — what your executive needs to know that isn't in any system. These are the boundaries AI won't cross.
Assess your data readiness: AI tools for this area need data to work. Check whether your organization has the historical data, integrations, and data quality to support briefing generation AI tools.

Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.

2

Define Your Measures

What to track and how to calculate it

Time per cycle

How to calculate

Measure how long preparing briefing materials and meeting prep takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.

Why it matters

The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.

Quality of output

How to calculate

Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.

Why it matters

Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.

When to check: Check after 30 days of consistent use, then quarterly.
The commitment: Give new tools at least 30 days before judging. The first week is always awkward.
What NOT to measure: Don't measure AI adoption rate as a KPI. Adoption follows value — if the tool helps, people use it.
3

Start These Conversations

Who to talk to and what to ask

your board chair or lead independent director

What data do we already have that could improve how we handle preparing briefing materials and meeting prep?

They shape expectations for how AI appears in governance

your CTO or CIO

Who on our team has the deepest experience with preparing briefing materials and meeting prep, and what tools are they already using?

They own the technology infrastructure that enables AI adoption

a peer executive at a company further along on AI adoption

If we brought in AI tools for preparing briefing materials and meeting prep, what would we measure before and after to know it actually helped?

Their lessons learned are worth more than any consultant's framework

4

Check Your Prerequisites

Confirm readiness before you invest

Check items as you confirm them.