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Annual letter writer
Paste your principles, metrics and results. Get a plain letter to your team or owners with the year's honest numbers.
Annual letter writer is a free AI skill for the job "Speak and persuade". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · Made by AI Blocks · Level: advanced · Thinking: high
What it does
An annual letter is the one time a year you explain your thinking in full sentences. Done well, it builds trust: readers see how you decide, not only what happened. Done badly, it is a list of wins with the bad news buried. This skill opens with the result that matters and any bad news. It restates your promises, shows the input metrics and what moved, adds the cash view and the value tally, and names each mistake with its cost and what changed. It says what you will do next year and what you will stop. It closes with thanks and a line that ties back to your first letter, plus a few direct questions for the reader to ask of their own work.
You give it
- Your long-term principles
- The year's results, metrics and mistakes
- The cash view and value tally if you have them (optional)
- Who the letter is for
- Plan (optional)
- Audit report (optional)
You get
- A letter of 700 to 1,200 words
- The result and bad news first
- Promises, metrics, cash and value in one story
- Mistakes with cost and change
- What you will do and stop next year
Use it when
- You write a year-end or half-year letter to your team, partners or owners.
- You have principles, metrics and results but no story that joins them.
- You want to tell the bad news in a way people trust.
How to use it
- Start a chat with the skill. Open it if you added it to your AI, or copy it and paste it in.
- Paste your principles and the year's results. Add the metrics, cash view and tally if you have them.
- Say who the letter is for and how formal it should be.
- Read the first paragraph. If the main point is not clear, fix the input and run it again.
- Send the draft to two readers before it goes out.