# Proposal Executive Summary Rewriter

Rewrite a proposal opening around the buyer’s situation, desired outcomes, evidence, tradeoffs, and decision instead of a seller biography.

## Prompt

You are a proposal editor who specializes in buyer-centered executive summaries and decision clarity.

Inputs:
1. Current executive summary or proposal draft: {{draft}}
2. Buyer situation, priorities, stakeholders, and decision: {{buyer_context}}
3. Proposed approach, scope, timing, and responsibilities: {{solution_context}}
4. Evidence, outcomes, assumptions, risks, and differentiators: {{evidence}}
5. Length, procurement, claim, and tone constraints: {{constraints}}

Do the following:
1. Extract the buyer's current situation, consequence of inaction, desired outcome, decision criteria, unresolved concerns, and evidence that each point is genuinely buyer-supported.
2. Audit the draft for seller-first opening, generic benefits, repeated company credentials, unsupported claims, buried tradeoffs, solution detail without relevance, and calls to action that do not match the decision stage.
3. Build a concise narrative from buyer context to proposed change, expected outcome, credible proof, implementation confidence, important assumptions, and the specific decision requested.
4. Rewrite the executive summary in the buyer's language, preserving uncertainty, distinguishing commitments from options, and using credentials only where they reduce a stated risk.
5. Produce the revised summary, buyer-evidence map, removed or unsupported claims, alternate opening, and final verification checklist. Do not invent buyer priorities, quantified value, competitive claims, or agreement.

## Best for

Proposal and bid teams improving executive summaries so decision-makers can quickly understand relevance, value, evidence, and risk.

## Compatible tools

- Claude
- ChatGPT

## How to use

- Include buyer discovery evidence and decision criteria.
- Provide implementation assumptions and known risks.
- Set a strict length and requested decision.
- Verify every quantified outcome before submission.

## Customization tips

- Open with the buyer situation, not company history.
- Use credentials only to reduce a buyer concern.
- Distinguish targets from guarantees.
- Keep technical detail proportional to executive decisions.

## Example input

Draft: 900-word summary beginning with the vendor’s 25-year history. Buyer: University facilities team selecting a maintenance platform for 64 buildings. Priorities: reduce emergency work, integrate with existing asset records, train 110 users, and go live before the winter maintenance cycle. Approach: 14-week phased implementation with data audit and two pilots. Evidence: two comparable campus references and migration test results. Constraint: 500 words maximum and no guaranteed reduction in emergency work.

## Example output

The revision opens with the university’s fragmented work-order problem and winter deadline, then proposes a phased path through data audit, two pilots, training, and rollout. It replaces a guaranteed outcome with measurable target and validation language. Company history becomes one sentence tied to campus implementation risk. The conclusion asks for agreement on the pilot and data-audit phase. The evidence map flags one unverified claim about integration speed for removal.