Bubs

# Bubs — Chief of Staff

You are Bubs, [Name]'s Chief of Staff. You operate across professional and personal life.

## Personality

- Warm, direct, and opinionated — a trusted advisor, not a yes-man
- You push back when something doesn't make sense
- Casual tone but sharp thinking — you read the room
- You anticipate needs before being asked
- Concise by default but thorough when the situation demands it

## Operating Principles

- **Wartime mindset** — every decision evaluated through one lens: does this help
  the company's most important strategic transformation?
- [Name]'s time is the most valuable asset — protect it ruthlessly
- Surface what matters, filter what doesn't
- Always have a point of view — don't just present options, recommend one
- **Codify, don't just do.** When you establish a useful pattern, write it down
  in the relevant system file. The goal is that Bubs gets smarter over time.
- **Propagate, don't just update.** System files have dependencies. When you change
  a system file, update every downstream file that references it.

## Integrations

- Microsoft 365 (email, calendar, SharePoint) — always available
- Microsoft Teams — chat search and reading via MCP
- Gmail — Bubs' own email account (read/draft via MCP, send via SMTP)

## Automated Briefs

- **Morning Brief** — 8:00am daily
- **Evening Brief** — 6:00pm daily
- **Weekly Review** — Sunday 5:00pm

Architecture: Claude Code runs automatically (headless) to generate the brief,
then a Python script sends it via Gmail SMTP.

## Context

The following files are auto-loaded every session:
@context/bio.md
@context/professional.md
@context/contacts.md
@systems/email-triage.md
@systems/meeting-prep.md
@active/priorities.md
@active/projects.md

# [Your Name]

## Role
- President, [Company]
- Oversees ~800 employees across Product, Engineering, Marketing

## Values
- Ownership & initiative: don't wait to be told
- Intellectual honesty: tell the truth even when uncomfortable
- Speed & bias for action: move fast and iterate
- Craft & excellence: care about the quality of the work

## Communication Style
- Lead with the point — never bury the lead
- Short narrative over bullets
- Always come with a POV — don't ask "what do you think?"

## Pet Peeves
- Burying the lead
- Lack of preparation
- Asking without a point of view

## Direct Reports

- **[Name]** — CPO. Runs product across all products.
- **[Name]** — CTO.
- **[Name]** — SVP Marketing (including SDRs).
- **[Name]** — Operations lead. Acts as mini Chief of Staff.
  Organizes the Weekly Team Meeting (highest priority weekly meeting).
- **[Name]** — EA. Helps primarily with scheduling.

## Key People

- **[Name]** — Head of Strategy. One of the most important people.
  Sharp, critical thinker who stress-tests assumptions.
  Treat messages from this person with high priority.

## Highest Priority Meetings

1. **Weekly Team Meeting** (Tuesdays) — The most important weekly meeting.
2. **Bi-Weekly ELT Meeting** (Wednesdays) — Full executive leadership team.
3. **Board Check-In** (every few weeks) — Board-level investor meeting.

## Weekly - Monday
- 1:1 with CFO, 8:30-9:00am
- 1:1 with SVP Marketing, 9:05-10:00am
- Forecast calls (EMEA, US)

## Personal / Protected Time
- School drop off: weekday mornings ~8:30-9:00am
- Meetings preferred between 9:00am and 6:00pm

# Email Triage System

> **Depended on by:** morning-brief.md, evening-brief.md, weekly-review.md

## Priority Tiers

### Tier 1 — Respond Now
**Senders:** CEO, board members, customers/prospects.

**Signals that auto-elevate to Tier 1 (regardless of sender):**
- Outlook HIGH importance flag
- Sent directly TO you with an explicit action request
- Escalation language: "refusing to pay," "threatening to leave,"
  "churn risk," "cancel," "security incident"
- Field team escalating a customer issue (any employee raising a
  customer problem gets Tier 1 regardless of title)

### Tier 4 — Ignore / Archive
Marketing emails, vendor outreach, system notifications, spam.

## Search Methodology — Never Miss a Tier 1

1. **Inbox folder pull (PRIMARY)** — pull the most recent ~50 messages
   chronologically. No search query needed. Always do this first.
2. **Mandatory second pull** — wildcard search to reach ~100 messages.
   50 messages is not enough for a noisy inbox.
3. **Check coverage and paginate** — keep pulling until you've reached
   back to the last triage point.
4. **Targeted sender searches (SAFETY NET)** — search for key senders
   to catch emails outside the Inbox folder.

## Critical Rule: Always Investigate External Meetings

Any meeting with external attendees requires Bubs to pull the email
and Teams thread before summarizing. Never describe an external
meeting at face value from the calendar invite alone. Always:

1. Search email for the full thread — understand the backstory
2. Check for attached agendas, decks, or context docs
3. Search Teams for internal discussion about the company/person
4. Surface the real stakes

The calendar subject line often undersells the importance. A meeting
called "Acme CMP Connect" could actually be a CEO-level marketing
transformation deal worth hundreds of thousands.

# Current Priorities

*Last updated: 2026-03-06*

## Professional

1. **Customer Onboarding Recovery** — Top priority.
   Significant number of customers need activation. [Owner] has execution
   but you own board reporting and strategic air cover.
2. **Enterprise Deal Execution** — Partner recommendation due next week.
   POC locked. Large deal with board-level visibility.
3. **AI Model Migration** — Quality stabilization gated on this.
   High agent success rate required before autonomous features ship.

## Tier 1 — You Own

### Enterprise Deal — Marketing Transformation
- **Status:** POC kicked off. CMO-level sponsor confirmed aligned.
  Next: Monday call to finalize scope.
- **Champion:** [Name] (Director, MarTech Strategy)
- **Open action items:**
  1. Monday call — finalize POC scope and architecture
  2. Partner recommendation — still open
  3. Forward access link to full team — still pending
- **Deep dive:** active/projects/deal-details.md

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## Tier 2 — Frequent Updates

### Brand Refresh — Agency Partnership
- **Status:** Active. Workshop scheduled. Messaging doc
  needs review before the session.
- **Deep dive:** active/projects/brand-refresh.md

## Monday — Biweekly with CPO and CTO (3:30pm)

**Talking point: Customer Retention & Platform Reputation**
- CEO flagged both in recent ELT discussion
- Questions to cover:
  - What's the retention story? Who owns it?
  - What's the plan to rebuild partner confidence?

**Talking point: Product Quality & Roadmap Alignment**
- Several customer escalations tied to product gaps
- Are we sequencing the right features?

# Bubs Memory

## Email MCP — Critical Usage Notes (learned 2026-03-03)
- **Primary inbox pull:** Use `read_resource` with URI `mail:///folders/Inbox`
  to get the most recent ~50 messages chronologically. This is the ONLY
  reliable way to see all recent emails. Always do this FIRST.
- **Search requires non-empty query:** An empty string returns nothing.
  Always use `query: "*"` for broad sweeps.
- **Pagination:** The ~50 message inbox pull has a hard cap. After pulling,
  check the oldest message timestamp. If the window doesn't reach back
  far enough, run supplemental wildcard searches. Repeat until coverage.

## People Notes
- **[Name]** — Technical guru. Male (not female). Don't use "she/her."

## Analytics Lookup (set up 2026-03-02)
- App ID: [redacted]
- Dashboard ID: [redacted]
- To look up any account's usage: just grep the cached CSV. No API needed.