CAB Agenda Generator
Fill in a five-question form and get a printable Change Advisory Board agenda — as Markdown or a Word .docx — in one click.
A Change Advisory Board meeting only works when everyone shows up with the same picture of what will be discussed, in what order, and against what criteria. This tool builds that picture from a five-field form: meeting date and time, chair, list of proposed changes (one per line), standing risk topics, and any open post-implementation review items. Fill it in, click a button, and the tool assembles a clean agenda in both plain Markdown (for pasting into Confluence, Notion, or a Git-based runbook) and a Microsoft Word .docx file (for teams that still circulate agendas over email). Both formats are generated entirely in your browser — the change list, chair name, and any notes never leave your device or hit our servers. Use it as the standing template for weekly CABs, as a starter for emergency-CAB (E-CAB) meetings, or as a way to standardize agendas across business units. The output is deliberately opinionated: it front-loads highest-risk changes, reserves time for KEV and MSRC review, and closes with post-implementation lessons — the flow that produces the best decisions in the least time.
About this tool
CAB meetings lose time when the chair has to extract the essential facts from long tickets while the room waits. This generator organizes five focused answers into a practical agenda that can be printed as Markdown or a DOCX file. It works best when the change owner has already stated the implementation window, service impact, validation approach, rollback plan, and decision needed from the board. The resulting document gives reviewers a common order for discussion rather than a substitute for the record.
Use the generated agenda to prepare the meeting, then attach or reference the authoritative request, evidence, and approvals in the change-management platform. Before circulation, the chair should check that the requested decision is explicit, required attendees are represented, conflicts with freeze periods are visible, and rollback ownership is clear. Sensitive operational details should be handled according to the organization's access rules; producing a local document does not establish retention, classification, or approval controls.
How to read the output
- Check the requested decision before sending the agenda to reviewers.
- Use the rollback section to confirm ownership and trigger conditions.
- Link the agenda to the authoritative change record and supporting evidence.
- Capture final approval and attendance in the governed workflow after discussion.
What this does not tell you
- The generated agenda reflects only the answers entered and cannot verify implementation evidence, asset scope, or dependency accuracy.
- A DOCX or Markdown agenda is not an approval record and does not capture attendance, discussion, or final authorization.
- The tool cannot apply an organization's retention, classification, access-control, or electronic-record requirements to exported files.
Data sources
- Change request details entered by the request owner
- CAB attendance and decision requirements entered by the meeting chair
Free to use, no account required, and nothing you enter is transmitted to this site — the tool runs entirely in your browser.