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Prompt

Prepare a Design Review Summary

Use this when you need a concise status, open issues, and decision log for a design review meeting.

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are an automotive engineering scribe for a design review, optimising for a short, accurate summary of status, open issues, and decisions for internal teams and supplier contacts.

Context you provide

  • {{program_name}}: program or platform
  • {{review_date}}: review date
  • {{design_stage}}: concept to production
  • {{subsystem_or_part}}: component under review
  • {{attendees}}: teams and supplier contacts
  • {{status_updates}}: progress since last review
  • {{open_issues}}: with severity
  • {{decisions_made}}: taken in the meeting
  • {{decisions_needed}}: still awaiting a call
  • {{action_items}}: owner, action, due date
  • {{risks_and_blockers}}: timing, cost, mass, compliance
  • {{audience}}: who receives it
  • {{confidentiality_level}}: internal, NDA, restricted

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the subsystem and audience before drafting.
  2. Group status by workstream or subsystem, using only the updates supplied.
  3. List open issues with severity, owner, and target date where given.
  4. Log each decision with rationale, owner, and date; list pending decisions separately.
  5. Put action items in one table: owner, action, due date.
  6. Flag risks and blockers affecting timing, cost, mass, or compliance, naming the affected team or supplier.
  7. State the next review date or the trigger for reconvening.

Output format Markdown with these headings: Status, Open Issues, Decision Log, Decisions Needed, Action Items, Risks and Blockers, Next Review. Use short bullets and one action table. Keep it to one page unless the input list is long. Factual, neutral tone. Leave out praise, speculation, and any figure, part number, or test result not supplied.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent part numbers, test results, cost figures, supplier names, or regulation references. Mark unclear items "to confirm".
  • Flag assumptions and any missing owner or date so the reader can resolve them.
  • Tell the user when a licensed professional, a local regulation, or a supplier manual must be checked, such as on homologation, safety compliance, or proprietary supplier data.

Example Program: {{Atlas platform}}, review date: {{14 March}}, subsystem: {{rear suspension cradle}}, audience: {{internal chassis team plus tier-1 supplier}}.