Technical-to-Layman Translator: Strategic Communication Brief Generator

It's Thursday afternoon. You have a all-hands in forty minutes and your CTO just Slacked you a three-paragraph update about the infrastructure migration. You read it twice. You understand maybe half of it. You need to stand in front of sixty people — including three investors — and explain what's happening, why it matters, and what comes next. You're rewriting his message in a Google Doc, guessing at the parts you don't fully follow, hoping you don't say something that makes the engineers cringe.

The damage: your credibility lives in the gap between what your technical team knows and what your non-technical stakeholders hear. When that gap widens, trust erodes — with your board, your customers, your team leads who need clear direction to move. Decisions stall. Rollouts get delayed. You become the bottleneck between the people doing the work and the people funding it.

The obvious fix is to ask your engineers to translate it themselves. But engineers optimize for accuracy, not clarity. What comes back is still dense, still conditional, still littered with caveats your CFO will use to pump the brakes. You spend the next hour on Slack asking follow-up questions you're embarrassed to ask.

This skill gives you a structured communication brief workflow — one that takes raw technical input, identifies what actually matters to each audience, and produces clear, confident rollout language you can deliver without second-guessing yourself.

What you get: SKILL.md — complete translation protocol with audience-mapping sequences, prioritization logic, and output specifications for briefs at every stakeholder level. SETUP_GUIDE.md — deployment instructions for integrating this workflow into your existing communication and planning environment. EXAMPLES.md — worked examples showing raw technical input transformed into board-ready, team-ready, and customer-ready communication outputs. CHANGELOG.md — version history tracking protocol refinements and output format updates. External dependency: None. Runs entirely within your agent's context.