Status Update

{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf-narrative/v1",
  "id": "status-update",
  "name": "Status Update",
  "summary": "Concise progress-report arc for keeping a stakeholder informed: headline, brief, progress, results, plan, feedback. Optimized for short, repeated updates rather than one-time deep dives.",
  "audienceFit": [
    "stakeholders",
    "managers",
    "customers",
    "executives"
  ],
  "durationRange": {
    "minMinutes": 5,
    "maxMinutes": 15
  },
  "tags": [
    "reporting",
    "operations",
    "customer-relationship",
    "weekly"
  ],
  "beats": [
    {
      "id": "headline",
      "name": "Headline",
      "description": "Open with the single most important sentence the audience needs to know — on track, off track, or shifted. The headline replaces 'how's it going' with a clear answer.",
      "layoutHint": "title-left",
      "instructions": "Title & date",
      "slideType": "text"
    },
    {
      "id": "brief",
      "name": "Brief",
      "description": "State the objective for the period and what was promised. One slide, three lines. Frames the rest of the update so progress is read against a clear bar.",
      "instructions": "Summary/objectives",
      "slideType": "text",
      "layoutHint": "text-1x-left"
    },
    {
      "id": "progress",
      "name": "Progress",
      "description": "Walk through the actions taken since the last update. Specific, attributable, dated. Avoid effort theater — list outcomes and material moves, not activity for its own sake.",
      "instructions": "Explain actions taken",
      "slideType": "text",
      "layoutHint": "text-1x-left"
    },
    {
      "id": "results",
      "name": "Results",
      "description": "Show the outcomes those actions produced. Metrics, customer signals, decisions made. Keep the comparison crisp — versus plan, versus last period, versus benchmark.",
      "instructions": "Show outcomes",
      "slideType": "text",
      "layoutHint": "text-1x-left"
    },
    {
      "id": "action-plan",
      "name": "Action Plan",
      "description": "Outline the next steps and who owns them. Be specific about the next decision point and what would have to happen to slip the schedule.",
      "instructions": "Outline next steps",
      "slideType": "text",
      "layoutHint": "text-1x-left"
    },
    {
      "id": "feedback",
      "name": "Feedback",
      "description": "Invite the audience to weigh in: where you'd like input, where you need a decision, where help would unblock you. End the update with an open hand, not a closed file.",
      "layoutHint": "title-left",
      "instructions": "Ask for response",
      "slideType": "text"
    }
  ]
}