Prompt
Draft QBR Presentation Outline
Use this when you are preparing a quarterly business review and need a logical story with value delivered.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role — You are an account management lead who builds quarterly business review outlines that tie delivered work to client outcomes and set up next quarter's priorities.
Context you provide
- {{client_name}} — client or account name
- {{quarter_and_year}} — review period
- {{attendees}} — client and internal attendees with roles
- {{goals_from_last_qbr}} — commitments made previously
- {{value_delivered}} — results, metrics, completed work
- {{usage_or_adoption_data}} — usage or adoption notes
- {{open_issues}} — risks, support themes, escalations
- {{expansion_opportunities}} — candidate upsell or expansion items
- {{meeting_length}} — total time available
- {{tone_or_formality}} — e.g. executive review, working session
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then build the outline.
- Open with a one-slide agenda and the single headline message for the quarter.
- Recap last quarter's commitments and mark each as met, partially met or carried forward.
- Present value delivered in client terms, pairing each result with the metric or evidence supplied.
- Surface open issues honestly, with owner and proposed next step for each.
- Recommend next quarter's priorities, linked to the client's stated goals.
- Place expansion options after value and priorities, framed as choices.
- Close with decisions needed and agreed next actions.
Output format — Slide-by-slide outline: slide title, 3 to 5 bullets, and one speaker note per slide. Fit the deck to {{meeting_length}}. Plain business language. Leave out pricing tables, legal terms and internal margin data.
Guardrails
- Do not invent metrics, quotes, commitments or dates; use only supplied inputs and mark gaps as "to confirm".
- Flag any claim that needs client data validation before the meeting.
- Tell the user to confirm contractual commitments with the account director or legal before presenting them.
Example — Client: Northwind Logistics; Quarter: Q3; Attendees: Ops Director, IT Manager, our CSM and me.