Overview
Teams plan on Monday and report on Friday, but almost nobody compares the two. This preset does, every week: what was promised, what was delivered, what keeps carrying over, and what showed up out of nowhere.
What this is for
This preset solves the follow-through blindness problem. The gap between intentions and outcomes is the most useful signal a team produces, and the least examined. An intention that carries over three weeks in a row is a stuck project or a struggling person. A stream of significant work that nobody planned is a team being yanked around by interruptions. Both patterns are invisible unless someone lines up the plans against the results.
The Intentions vs. reality preset lines them up every Friday. You get the week’s follow-through rate, the intentions that slipped to next week, and the unplanned work that displaced them. It’s not about blame; it’s about seeing whether the team controls its week or the week controls the team.
Who should use this
Engineering managers who suspect interruptions are eating the roadmap but can’t prove it. You’ll have the unplanned-work evidence in hand for the next prioritization fight.
Team leads running retros who want them grounded in what actually happened. You’ll walk in with the week’s plan-versus-reality data instead of relying on memory.
Teams working on estimation and predictability who need a feedback loop. You’ll watch the follow-through rate move week over week as planning improves.
The prompt
Compare what the [ team name ] team said they intended to do this week with what they actually reported doing. Summarize the follow-through rate, list intentions that carried over without being completed, and call out significant work that was done but never stated as an intention.
How to use
Click here to create a new Echo using this preset. You'll be able to customize the prompt and schedule before it starts generating answers.