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Weekly Business Review AI Prompt

This prompt helps turn business data into reports, dashboards, and reporting systems that support decisions. It is best used when you need a clear reporting structure, an audience-specific narrative, or a specification that can be handed to analysts, BI developers, or leadership. It emphasizes clarity, consistency, and usefulness over raw data dumps. It produces a concise weekly narrative with scorecard, highlights, concerns, and next actions.

Prompt text
Generate a weekly business review report based on this data.

The report should follow this structure:

1. Executive headline (1 sentence): the single most important thing that happened this week

2. Scorecard (table format):
   - Each KPI: current week value | prior week value | WoW change % | vs target | status (🟢/🟡/🔴)

3. Highlights (3 bullet points):
   - What went well this week? Cite specific numbers.

4. Concerns (2–3 bullet points):
   - What needs attention? Cite specific numbers and why it matters.

5. Context:
   - Any external events, seasonality, or one-time factors that explain unusual movements

6. Actions:
   - 2–3 specific actions for next week with an owner and due date for each

7. Next week outlook:
   - What are we expecting? Any events or decisions coming up that will affect the metrics?

Tone: factual, direct, no jargon. Written for a general management audience. Maximum 400 words excluding the scorecard.

When to use this prompt

Use case 01

Use when you need a repeatable report, dashboard design, or executive-ready narrative.

Use case 02

Use when different audiences need different levels of detail from the same data.

Use case 03

Use when report quality, consistency, and clarity matter more than raw analysis output.

Use case 04

Use when you want a specification that can be handed off to BI, analytics, or leadership.

What the AI should return

The AI should return a clean reporting artifact with the requested structure, audience tone, and presentation logic. Metrics should be organized clearly, narrative sections should emphasize the main story, and any recommended actions should be concrete. The result should feel ready for a report, dashboard spec, email, or leadership update.

How to use this prompt

1

Open your data context

Load your dataset, notebook, or working environment so the AI can operate on the actual project context.

2

Copy the prompt text

Use the copy button above and paste the prompt into the AI assistant or prompt input area.

3

Review the output critically

Check whether the result matches your data, assumptions, and desired format before moving on.

4

Chain into the next prompt

Once you have the first result, continue deeper with related prompts in Reporting and Dashboards.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Weekly Business Review prompt do?+

It gives you a structured reporting and dashboards starting point for business analyst work and helps you move faster without starting from a blank page.

Who is this prompt for?+

It is designed for business analyst workflows and marked as beginner, so it works well as a guided starting point for that level of experience.

What type of prompt is this?+

Weekly Business Review is a single prompt. You can copy it as-is, adapt it, or use it as one step inside a larger workflow.

Can I use this outside MLJAR Studio?+

Yes. The prompt text works in other AI tools too, but MLJAR Studio is the best fit when you want local execution, visible Python code, and reusable notebooks.

What should I open next?+

Natural next steps from here are Anomaly Narrative Writer, Board-Level Report, Dashboard Specification.