Use AI to gather and organize input from multiple teammates before making a decision.

When you need to make a decision that affects your team—choosing a vendor, picking a project direction, or updating a process—collecting everyone's thoughts can turn into a mess of emails, slack threads, and half-remembered conversations. AI can help you organize diverse opinions into a clear picture before you decide. This workflow walks you through gathering input, organizing themes, spotting agreement and disagreement, and preparing a summary that shows you actually listened. 1. List out the decision you need to make and paste in all the feedback you've collected—emails, meeting notes, slack threads, whatever you have. Start with: 'I need to decide [X]. Here's what my team has said so far: [paste all input].' Ask AI to organize the feedback by common themes or concerns. 2. Ask AI to identify where people agree and where opinions split. Prompt: 'What do most people seem to agree on? Where are the main disagreements or different viewpoints?' 3. Request a summary of each person's key concern or priority if they're named in the feedback. This helps you see who cares most about what. 4. Ask AI to draft a short summary you can share back with the team that shows you heard everyone and explains what you're considering. Prompt: 'Draft a 3-paragraph message I can send back to my team summarizing what I heard and the direction I'm leaning.' 5. Before you send it, ask AI: 'Who might feel unheard or pushback on this summary?' This helps you catch blind spots. 6. Refine the message based on AI's feedback, then send it out. You've just turned messy input into a clear, inclusive decision process.

March 20, 2026