Petit test
Guess first, no penalty. You get three minutes with the CFO (chief financial officer) about a cost overrun. What do you say first?
AI can draft your slides and turn a table into tidy sentences. It describes everything evenly, which is the opposite of what a busy decision-maker needs. Finding the one number that matters, and the decision it calls for, is your job.
A fixed order helps. It works for a CFO, a client or a plant manager who never opens spreadsheets: headline first, so they know why they're listening, and the ask last, so the meeting ends with a decision, not a nod.