How to write an exec brief on Starch

An exec brief is a short document — usually one to three pages — that gives a decision-maker everything they need to act without reading the full context behind it. The format sounds simple. In practice, most operators produce them too slowly, too late, or in a format that doesn't travel well across the people who need to read it.

What this workflow looks like varies. Sometimes it's a weekly update to a board member. Sometimes it's a pre-meeting memo so a CEO walks in already oriented. Sometimes it's a structured summary of a decision that needs sign-off. The core problem is the same: you need to compress a lot of context into something that lands clearly and quickly.

On Starch, the brief practically writes itself before you touch it. Meeting transcripts surface decisions and open questions automatically. Context from Notion, email threads, and prior briefs is pulled in by search. The result you get is a clean draft — key context, decisions needed, supporting data — sitting in your inbox or your docs folder, ready to edit and send. You spend ten minutes refining a tight memo instead of forty-five minutes assembling one from scratch.