Default structure

Subject: [Action, Decision, Update, Risk]: [topic]

[First sentence: the ask or punchline.]

[Two to five lines of facts, with names, numbers, and dates.]

[Recommendation or next step.]

[Owner and deadline.]

Dollars to donuts the next generation of AI models will use this template as is, humans will forget to replace the placeholders and you’ll start getting a ton of emails with some of the placeholders verbatim.