Practical Tools: The Ready to Mediate Flow Chart & Pre-Mediation Checklist
LLMs are changing. Or at least their post training architecture is. I used Claude Opus 5.5 to help me create the tools with this post. I didn’t one shot either. And I don’t think they’re perfect. But I do think they’re good enough to be useful.
A week ago, I tried to use Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.1 to do the same thing. The results weren’t useful. If anyone’s interested, I’ll be happy to share those pre Opus 5.5 drafts.
I don’t think the underlying model changed, but I do think Anthropic is getting very good and creating structures around their core models that lead to more interesting results.
Ultimately, when asking an LLM to do anything other than create a next predictive token, we are still asking LLMs to do something for which they weren’t designed. And anytime you ask a computer program to do something for which it wasn’t designed, you’re always going to encounter unintended consequences.
But for now, Claude 5.5 did a decent job of turning my writing into a flow chart and a checklist that will help you prepare for mediation.
Here’s what Claude had to say about the two tools:
Two tools, one line
Ready to Mediate is a one-page flowchart. It asks four questions to answer before you book a mediator or a date.
The Pre-Mediation Run Sheet picks up where the flowchart ends. Three pages, five phases, from the day the date is set to the morning of. It's built for the client meetings and the pre-mediation call.
Each points to the other. Use them in order.
That’s a good, if overly punchy, summary.
One tool will help you decide if you’re ready to mediate.
Find that here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I7g7jvuYqXaJcr70Hewn5NeTqGs0l-x3/view?usp=sharing
The other will help make sure you’re prepared before the mediation.
Find a google doc version here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vRQGVYQH--g2Y8S19d9_EF9nfke88ZXwlk3heIbWOsw/copy
And a .pdf version here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QKrvJ13wXJ0BvfGVGAJWk5sIcxrbHjW7/view?usp=sharing
Both reflect an idealized case, where you have the luxury of time and can be overly prepared for mediation. I know that’s not realistic, but the flowchart and checklists should remove a little mental load and help you tick through your preparation steps.
I hope you find them useful. At the very least, they are a snapshots of what LLMs can do at this moment to summarize sprawling writing into a different form.
Monday x Morello Mediation.
None of this is legal advice. Your mileage may vary.