Recipe: Stakeholder Brief
Given a person's name, compile all recent interactions — meetings and emails — into a relationship brief. Useful before 1:1s, performance reviews, or re-engaging with someone after a gap.
Prerequisite: Read the
base skill for command reference and filter syntax.
Access level required: read-only.
Steps
Step 1: Look up the person
bash
spark contacts "person name"
Note their email address(es) and any other details.
Step 2: Pull recent email threads
bash
spark emails --filter "from:person@co.com newer_than:30d"
Also check emails sent to them:
bash
spark emails --filter "to:person@co.com newer_than:30d"
For the most important threads, read the full conversation:
Note open threads (unanswered or pending action) vs. resolved ones.
Step 3: Find shared meetings
bash
spark meetings --filter "newer_than:30d"
Scan meeting titles and participant lists for the person. For each relevant meeting, pull the summary:
If the person's contributions or commitments aren't clear from the summary:
bash
spark meeting <id> --transcript --notes
Step 4: Check upcoming events with them
Note any upcoming meetings where this person is an attendee.
Step 5: Compile the brief
Organize into sections:
- Contact: name, email, role (if known from context)
- Last interaction: date and channel (meeting or email)
- Open items: threads awaiting response, commitments not yet fulfilled
- Recent topics: what you've discussed across meetings and email (grouped by theme)
- Upcoming: any scheduled meetings with them
- Key context: notable decisions made together, recurring discussion themes
Step 6: Present the brief
Lead with the most actionable information — open items and upcoming meetings — then provide the fuller context. Flag anything that looks like it needs attention before the next interaction.
Tips
- This recipe is person-centric, unlike which is event-centric. Use this when you want to understand the full relationship, not just prep for one meeting.
- For people you interact with frequently, narrow the time window to to keep the brief focused.
- For people you haven't spoken to in a while, widen to or use to capture the last meaningful period.
- Use
spark search "person name"
as a supplementary search to catch threads where they're mentioned but not in the from/to fields.
- If the person is a teammate, may show their current email assignments.