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Email and people

Person Context Brief

Summarize what matters about a person for a specific workflow or interaction.

Purpose

Give an AI harness enough relationship context to act carefully without overloading it with private history.

When to use it

  • You are about to draft outreach.
  • A meeting includes stakeholders with unknown roles.
  • A project depends on a person's preferences or responsibilities.

Inputs

  • Person identifier
  • Known roles
  • Recent emails
  • Meeting notes

Outputs

  • Role brief
  • Recent context
  • Communication preferences

Steps

  1. Confirm the person identity and organization.
  2. Summarize role, current projects, recent commitments, and sensitivities.
  3. Separate sourced facts from inferred preferences.
  4. List stale or missing context.

Quality checks

  • The brief distinguishes known facts from inferred tone preferences.
  • Sensitive personal details are excluded unless directly needed.

Failure modes

  • Two people with similar names are merged.
  • Old context is treated as current.

Privacy notes

  • Use the brief for action support, not profiling.
  • Keep private preference notes out of external messages.

Example prompt

Create a context brief for this person for the purpose of drafting a meeting follow-up. Separate facts, inferred preferences, and stale context.

Example structured output

{"person":"Lee","role":"Ops lead","recentContext":["Asked for v2 by Friday"],"preferences":{"confidence":"low","notes":["Prefers short summaries"]}}