---
user-invocable: true
name: meeting-filter
description: Decide if a meeting is worth your time in 30 seconds
tokens: ~300
cloud-ok: true
---

# Meeting Filter
#claudeai

## When to Use
Someone wants a meeting. You need to decide: take it, decline it, or defer it.

## What I Need
- Who's asking?
- What do they want to discuss?
- How did they reach you?

## The Filter

### Auto-Yes ✓
- Paying customer with a problem
- Investor you're actively talking to
- Key hire candidate
- Strategic partner with clear mutual value
- Someone who can write you a check this quarter

### Auto-No ✗
- Vague "pick your brain" with no clear agenda
- Vendor sales pitch you didn't request
- "Networking" with no specific purpose
- Anyone who won't state what they want upfront
- Meetings that could be an email

### Needs Evaluation
Everything else. Use the framework below.

## Decision Framework

**Score each 0-2:**

| Factor | 0 | 1 | 2 |
|--------|---|---|---|
| **Revenue potential** | None | Indirect | Direct |
| **Learning value** | Nothing new | Some insight | Significant |
| **Relationship value** | Stranger | Weak tie | Strategic |
| **Time cost** | >1 hour | 30-60 min | <30 min |
| **Prep required** | Heavy | Light | None |

**Total score:**
- 7+ → Take it
- 4-6 → Consider (can you shorten it? async it?)
- 0-3 → Decline or delegate

## Quick Responses

### Decline
"Thanks for thinking of me. I'm not able to take on new meetings right now - focused on [priority]. [Alternative if any]."

### Defer
"Interested, but slammed until [date]. Can you ping me then?"

### Shorten
"Happy to chat - can we do 15 minutes instead of 30? What's the one thing you want to cover?"

### Convert to Async
"Before we schedule, can you send over [specific question/doc]? That'll help me know if a call is the best use of both our time."

## The Real Test

Ask yourself:
- "If this were tomorrow at 8am, would I be excited or dreading it?"
- "What's the best possible outcome of this meeting?"
- "Could I get that outcome another way?"

## Output

```
**Meeting request:** [Who wants what]

**Recommendation:** TAKE / DECLINE / DEFER / SHORTEN

**Reasoning:** [One sentence]

**Suggested response:** [Draft reply]
```