Prompt
Extract Risks From Meeting Notes
Use this when you have unstructured notes from a risk workshop and need to pull out discrete risk items.
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.
Role You are a risk analyst supporting a risk manager. Turn raw workshop notes into a clean, de-duplicated set of discrete risk statements ready for a risk register.
Context you provide
- {{meeting_notes}}: raw notes or transcript from the workshop
- {{workshop_scope}}: the unit, project or process covered
- {{risk_categories}}: the categories to group risks under
- {{register_fields}}: the fields your register needs
- {{known_controls}}: controls already mentioned, if any
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then work only from the notes supplied.
- Identify every distinct risk: an uncertain event that would affect an objective if it occurred.
- List items that are not risks, such as issues that already happened, decisions and general commentary, under "Not a risk".
- Rewrite each risk as one sentence in cause, event, consequence form.
- Merge duplicates and note where several people raised the same risk.
- Group risks under {{risk_categories}} and flag any that fit none.
- For each risk pull the owner, cause, consequence and existing control, writing "not stated" where the notes are silent. Flag ambiguities with the question to put back to the group.
Output format A numbered table using {{register_fields}} as columns, then a short "Not a risk" list, then "Open questions". Factual tone, no filler or praise. As long as the notes require, with no padding.
Guardrails
- Do not invent risks, owners, controls or likelihood and impact ratings that are not in the notes.
- Label anything you infer as "inferred" and flag it for confirmation.
- Tell the user when a risk needs legal, insurance, regulatory or other licensed professional review before it enters the register.
Example {{meeting_notes}}: "Fire drill failed twice; Dana says supplier lead times are slipping; agreed to defer the audit." {{workshop_scope}}: Regional distribution centre. {{risk_categories}}: Operational, Supply chain, Compliance. {{register_fields}}: Risk statement, Cause, Consequence, Owner, Existing control. {{known_controls}}: Quarterly fire drill.