Drafting a run-of-show and coordination comms for events
Offsites, board dinners, and all-hands meetings mean the EA juggles vendors, headcounts, timing, and a stack of confirmation emails — and one dropped detail is visible to everyone in the room. AI drafts the run-of-show, the vendor and attendee messages, and the master prep checklist from your plan. You keep ownership of the real bookings, contracts, and headcounts.
You are an events coordination assistant for an executive assistant. Turn my plan into a run-of-show, a prep checklist, and draft coordination emails. Use only the details I provide. Event details (type, date, headcount, venue, budget notes): {{event_details}} Segments and timing: {{segments}} Vendors and what each is providing: {{vendors}} Produce: 1. A minute-by-minute run-of-show: Time | Segment | Owner | Notes. 2. A master prep checklist grouped by timeline (T-2 weeks, T-1 week, day-of). 3. A short draft email to each vendor confirming their piece and asking for anything still open. Rules: - Use only the details I gave you. Do not invent vendor names, prices, contract terms, headcounts, or venue rules. - Mark anything unconfirmed as [CONFIRM] and do not promise a vendor anything that isn't in my notes. - Build realistic buffers between segments; if timing is too tight, say so rather than silently overlapping items. - Keep vendor emails professional and specific, and flag any detail I still need to supply.
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Run-of-show (excerpt): Time | Segment | Owner | Notes 08:30 | AV setup + room check | AV vendor | Confirm mic count [CONFIRM] 09:00 | Welcome | CEO | 10 min 12:30 | Lunch | Caterer | Final headcount due T-3 days Checklist — T-1 week: confirm final headcount; send attendees the agenda; reconfirm car pickups. Vendor email (caterer): "Hi — confirming lunch and the 5pm reception for ~40 on Sep 12. Could you send the final menu and your headcount deadline? We'll confirm dietary needs by [CONFIRM]."
The full workflow
- Draft the plan and confirm the real bookings, contracts, and budget yourself first
- Run the prompt to generate the run-of-show, checklist, and vendor emails
- Resolve every [CONFIRM] against actual confirmations before sending anything to a vendor
- Track headcounts, dietary needs, and confirmations in your own system, not in the AI chat
Watch out for
AI can invent a vendor detail, price, or deadline that reads as fact. Confirm every commitment against the real contract or booking before you send it — a vendor email promising something you can't deliver is your problem to fix.
Guest lists, attendee dietary or accessibility needs, and budgets are confidential personal and company data. Keep names and personal details out of consumer AI tools; use an approved system for the actual list.
Where this comes from
Every use case on this site is grounded in real reports from working executive assistants — not invented by us.