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Before the roomCohort
The Meeting Altitude Check
Match the altitude of your content to the altitude of your audience — before you pitch it.
A thirty-second gut check, not a rewrite. VP+ audiences think in synthesis and outcomes — they won’t ask for the mechanics, they’ll just stop listening.
When to use it
- Before presenting to anyone above your direct manager
- Any time a deck keeps growing because “the context feels important”
- As the last check before the Doctrine Scratch Pad’s audience-altitude field
What it gives you
- A named altitude for your audience, instead of a guess
- Permission to cut detail that belongs one level down
- A headline calibrated to how they actually think, not how you built it
Altitude tip
Who are you communicating with?
Pick an audience to see how this tool changes for them.
How to run it — Five minutes
- 01
Name their altitude
Mechanics, Approach, Outcomes, or Strategic Bet.
1 minute
- 02
Cut one level down
Whatever you drafted, remove one altitude of detail.
2 minutes
- 03
Rewrite the headline
State it at their altitude, not the altitude you did the work at.
2 minutes
- 04
Keep detail on standby
Have it ready if asked — don’t lead with it.
Ongoing
The trap
Pitching at your own altitude. The work happened down in the mechanics — but the person across the table lives in outcomes, and that’s the only altitude that earns you their time.