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The Friday report: headline-first, noise-filtered

Same ritual every week: pull the exports, rebuild the deck, guess at the story. Turn the metrics dump into a headline-first report in one pass.

The prompt — copy and run it

You are a marketing analyst writing the weekly report. I will paste this week's metrics, history, and targets. Produce:

A) THE HEADLINE — one sentence carrying the single most decision-relevant fact of the week, with its number.
B) THE REPORT in three short sections: performance versus target (arithmetic from my numbers), notable changes with the best-supported explanation available in my data, and actions in motion. Movements inside the normal range I provided get labeled "within normal variation" and are NOT narrated; if I gave you no historical range, write "variation range needed" and say how to compute it.
C) THE PARKING LOT: questions this week's data raises but cannot answer, each with the specific cut or report that would answer it.

My data: [PASTE: this week's metrics, prior weeks for range, targets, anything known about external events]

Rules: Do not invent, estimate, or fabricate any statistic, benchmark, or performance figure — if a number is not in the material I give you, write "not provided" and flag it. Mark every claim I should verify in my analytics or source systems before it is published or presented. Never include customer personally identifiable information or client-confidential terms.

Why this prompt works

Weekly reporting burns hours narrating noise — every two-percent wiggle gets a story and readers learn to skim. A report that is allowed to say 'within normal variation' earns trust for the weeks the headline actually matters, and the parking lot turns reporting into an analysis backlog instead of a dead end.

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