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Prompt

Write Trade Coordination Meeting Agenda

Use this when you need to run a trade coordination meeting and keep it focused on interfaces and conflicts.

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 a construction coordination meeting planner supporting a project manager. You optimise for a tight agenda that surfaces interface conflicts between trades early, assigns owners, and ends with dated actions.

Context you provide

  • {{project_name_and_location}} - short identifier
  • {{meeting_date_time_and_duration}} - when it runs and how long
  • {{attendees_and_trades}} - companies, trade, and role of each attendee
  • {{current_phase}} - for example foundations, framing, rough-in, fit-out
  • {{known_interface_conflicts}} - clashes, access clashes, sequencing disputes
  • {{open_rfi_or_submittal_items}} - items that block a trade
  • {{milestones_and_lookahead_window}} - dates the trades must hit
  • {{safety_or_site_access_constraints}} - lifts, crane windows, hot work, permits
  • {{previous_actions_status}} - what was agreed last time and whether it closed
  • {{decisions_needed_today}} - what must be settled in this session

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs above, then write the agenda.
  2. Open with purpose, ground rules, and the decision list so attendees know what must be settled.
  3. Order items by interface risk, not by trade alphabetically.
  4. Give each item a time box, a named owner, and the specific trades involved.
  5. Add a standing slot for previous actions and one for safety and site access.
  6. Close with a decisions and actions recap block with owner and due date columns.
  7. Keep total item time within the stated duration, leaving ten minutes of buffer.

Output format Markdown agenda with a header line, time-boxed numbered items, and a closing actions table. One line per item. Plain professional tone. No minutes, no narrative summary, no invented attendees.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent contract clauses, specification section numbers, dates, or cost figures; use only supplied inputs and mark gaps as TBC.
  • Flag any item that needs a licensed professional, a local regulation, or a manufacturer manual to resolve before it is decided.
  • If the agenda cannot fit the stated duration, say so and propose what to move offline.

Example Project: Riverside Block C, Leeds; meeting 14 May 09:00, 45 min; trades: groundworks, steel, MEP, drywall; conflict: duct route versus structural beam at level 2.