Athena starters for meetings and productivity are 9 ready-made prompts grouped into Meetings, Email and Projects. 2 run on a schedule: Athena runs them once, delivers a spreadsheet, PowerPoint deck and Word document, emails them to you, and repeats on the cadence you pick. A few need a connected app: calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar), email (Outlook or Gmail). The rest need no setup.
Contents
01Meetings
Prep for my next meeting
Attendees, last discussion, and open items.
- Setup
- Needs Calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar); Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- An answer in chat
Show the prompt
Prepare me for my next meeting: who is attending and their roles, what we discussed last time, open items, and what I should get out of it.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Notes to action items
Decisions and owners, plus the follow-up email.
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- An answer in chat
Show the prompt
Turn these meeting notes or this transcript into decisions, action items with owners and dates, and open questions: [paste or attach]. Then draft the follow-up email.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
My week at a glance
What to prepare, decline, and not miss this week.
- Setup
- Needs Calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar); Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- An answer in chat
Show the prompt
Look at my calendar and email for this week. Tell me what to prepare for, which meetings I could decline or shorten, and the deadlines I must not miss.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
02Email
Inbox triage
Unread mail sorted, with replies drafted.
- Setup
- Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- An answer in chat
Show the prompt
Go through my unread email. Sort it into needs a reply today, can wait, and FYI, draft replies for the first group, and list anything with a deadline.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Summarize a long thread
What was decided and who owes what.
- Setup
- Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- An answer in chat
Show the prompt
Summarize the email thread about [subject]: what was decided, what is still open, and who owes what by when.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Follow-ups I owe
People waiting on you, oldest first. See how it runs →
- Setup
- Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
- Runs
- Every Monday at 7am, or every weekday or monthly instead
- Outputs
- spreadsheet, PowerPoint deck, Word document; emailed to you after every run
Show the prompt
Find emails from the last 30 days where someone is waiting on a reply or deliverable from me. List them oldest first with what they asked for, and draft a short reply for each. Deliver three files in my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place. The files: (1) a spreadsheet with one row per follow-up (person, subject, asked for, date, days waiting, draft reply); (2) a PowerPoint deck with the logo on the title slide, a one-slide summary, a slide per section with a chart wherever there are numbers, and a so-what slide; (3) a Word document with the logo in the header, the full brief, and every source cited. Brand colors and fonts throughout, one idea per slide, no walls of text. Finish with a short summary in chat that links all three. When each run finishes, this one included, email me the three files from Athena: send them to my own email address with the chat summary in the body. If Athena cannot send email in this workspace, say so instead. When you are done, ask me if I want this every Monday at 7am (or every weekday, or monthly instead). Also ask which sections to keep and confirm my IANA time zone (for example America/New_York), and pass it explicitly when creating the schedule. If I choose a schedule, set up a scheduled agent that runs this same brief on it, keeps the spreadsheet asset ID and any template IDs in its instructions, reads the latest dated tab before each run, and reports only what changed since the last run. It says plainly when nothing material changed, and says comparison is unavailable if the prior tab cannot be read. Each run adds a dated tab to the same spreadsheet and makes a new dated deck and document. Whenever I give feedback on a run, in this chat or a later one, update the scheduled agent's instructions (and the template or design system when the feedback is about how the files look) so every later run follows it, then tell me exactly what you changed.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
03Projects
Project status update
Progress, risks, and decisions from email and meetings. See how it runs →
- Setup
- Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail); Needs Calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar)
- Runs
- Every Monday at 7am, or every weekday or monthly instead
- Outputs
- spreadsheet, PowerPoint deck, Word document; emailed to you after every run
Show the prompt
Build the weekly status update for the project I name. Ask me which project and where its tracker lives. Pull this week's progress, risks, and decisions from my email, meetings, and the tracker, and show status against milestones. Deliver three files in my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place. The files: (1) a spreadsheet with one row per milestone (milestone, owner, due, status, risk, decision needed); (2) a PowerPoint deck with the logo on the title slide, a one-slide summary, a slide per section with a chart wherever there are numbers, and a so-what slide; (3) a Word document with the logo in the header, the full brief, and every source cited. Brand colors and fonts throughout, one idea per slide, no walls of text. Finish with a short summary in chat that links all three. When each run finishes, this one included, email me the three files from Athena: send them to my own email address with the chat summary in the body. If Athena cannot send email in this workspace, say so instead. When you are done, ask me if I want this every Monday at 7am (or every weekday, or monthly instead). Also ask which sections to keep and confirm my IANA time zone (for example America/New_York), and pass it explicitly when creating the schedule. If I choose a schedule, set up a scheduled agent that runs this same brief on it, keeps the spreadsheet asset ID and any template IDs in its instructions, reads the latest dated tab before each run, and reports only what changed since the last run. It says plainly when nothing material changed, and says comparison is unavailable if the prior tab cannot be read. Each run adds a dated tab to the same spreadsheet and makes a new dated deck and document. Whenever I give feedback on a run, in this chat or a later one, update the scheduled agent's instructions (and the template or design system when the feedback is about how the files look) so every later run follows it, then tell me exactly what you changed.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Project plan
Milestones, owners, dependencies, and risks.
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- spreadsheet
Show the prompt
Build a project plan for [project] in a spreadsheet: milestones, tasks, owners, dates, dependencies, and the top risks with mitigations.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Prioritize my tasks
Your list by urgency and impact, with a weekly plan.
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- An answer in chat
Show the prompt
Prioritize this task list by urgency and impact: [paste]. Say what to drop or delegate, and lay out a plan for this week.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
04Why run it in Athena
| A chat assistant | Athena | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Text in a chat | Real Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files in your templates |
| Working together | One person, one chat | Your team and the agent in the same file, live |
| Mistakes | Regenerate and start over | Every edit attributed; undo or roll back any change |
| Next run | Starts from scratch | Builds on the last run and on your feedback |
| Your data | Copy and paste | Documents, email, and warehouse, under each person's access |
| Where it runs | Their cloud | Yours, if you need it |
05For your team
06Related dispatches
- Hey AthenaAn AI agent that handles meeting follow-ups.
- Athena AnywhereAn AI agent in Teams, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
07Questions teams ask
How do I use a starter?
Open a new chat in Athena, paste the prompt, and replace anything in square brackets with your details before sending. Athena asks for anything else it needs.
Which starters run on a schedule?
These run on a schedule: Follow-ups I owe, Project status update.
Do these starters need connected apps?
A few need a connected app: calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar), email (Outlook or Gmail). The rest need no setup.
Can I use my own templates?
Yes. The scheduled starters ask once which of your Word, PowerPoint or Excel templates in Athena to use and build every file from them. With no template, they use your company's logo, colors and fonts.