Background-guide decoder
Paste a dense background guide; get the agenda, the fault lines, and what to prep. Built for Model UN delegates who want a draft that reads like real diplomacy — not a Wikipedia summary.
Key highlights
The real question
What the agenda item is actually asking, distilled to a single paragraph.
Fault lines surfaced
The three or four lines blocs will split along once debate opens.
What the chair wants
The questions the dais clearly expects the committee to answer.
Prep checklist
Documents, precedents, and acronyms to know — and what to research first.
About this template
Background guides are long, dense, and written to test whether you'll actually read them. Paste yours and this template decodes it: what the agenda item is really asking in one paragraph, the fault lines blocs will split along, and the questions the chair clearly wants answered.
It also tells you what to know cold — the key documents, precedents, and acronyms — and hands you a prep checklist for everything to research before session one. You stop re-reading the guide hoping it clicks and start preparing against what actually matters.
Model Diplomat vs. generic AI
The same prompt in a general chatbot can produce something that reads right and isn't. Here's the difference.
| Aspect | This template | ChatGPT / generic AI |
|---|---|---|
| Sources | Primary documents, cited and openable | Often fabricated, or none at all |
| Format | Conference-ready, in your committee's standard structure | A blank page — you supply the format |
| Verifiability | Every claim checkable against its source | No way to tell what's real |
| Built for the work | Tuned for diplomacy, politics, and law | General-purpose, not domain-aware |
| Cost | Free to start | — |
Who it's for
MUN delegates
Preparing a background-guide decoder for an upcoming committee and want it conference-ready.
First-time delegates
Learning the formats and registers that experienced delegations already know.
Chairs and dais staff
Modeling what a strong, well-sourced submission looks like for the committee.
Crisis and GA delegates alike
Wanting structure and citations under conference time pressure.
What you'll fill in
A preview of the one field you'll complete in the composer — the rest is written for you.
The prompt
This is what lands in your composer — edit the [blanks] and send.
Here's my committee background guide: "[paste the background guide (or the key sections)]". Decode it for me: (1) what the agenda item is really asking, in one paragraph; (2) the three or four fault lines blocs will split along; (3) the questions the chair clearly wants us to answer; (4) the key documents, precedents, and acronyms I should know cold; (5) a prep checklist of what to research before session one.
Start from this template
Model Diplomat fills it in with answers grounded in primary sources — every claim comes with a citation you can check.
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