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
- 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 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
- Ask for any missing inputs above, then write the agenda.
- Open with purpose, ground rules, and the decision list so attendees know what must be settled.
- Order items by interface risk, not by trade alphabetically.
- Give each item a time box, a named owner, and the specific trades involved.
- Add a standing slot for previous actions and one for safety and site access.
- Close with a decisions and actions recap block with owner and due date columns.
- 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.