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Board update

Drafts the monthly update from your notes and numbers.

You need this if…

  • The monthly update is due and you’re staring at last month’s for inspiration.
  • Your numbers live in one place and the story lives in your head.
  • You keep meaning to send investors an update and keep not sending it.
01What it reads
  • Notes
  • Files
  • Bank and card statements
  • Invoices
  • Email
02What you get

A draft update with the headline numbers, what went well and what didn’t, and where the board could help, in the format they’re used to.

03What stays with you

It doesn’t send to the board or anyone else. You check the numbers and send it yourself.

04How you ask

“Draft this month’s board update.”

Try it today.

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, then add your own material where it says so. Take out card numbers, passwords and anything private about other people first.

Free. Tell me where to send it and every guide’s prompt opens.

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When it runs on its own.

Near the end of each month it gathers your notes and the numbers you’ve connected, then leaves a draft in your files and a reminder on your calendar to review it.

That’s what Second Nature is: this job and 9 to 11 more like it, set up on your own computer around how you work, with me.