High-agency professionals know attention is their scarcest asset, but most treat it as an informal norm instead of an explicit agreement. Teams guess what deserves a live meeting versus an async update; AI tools flood you with summaries you never asked for. The result: your focus—the real driver of judgment—gets spent by everyone but you. This episode introduces the “Executive Attention Contract”: a short, written agreement that defines how your attention can be requested, in what format, at what fidelity, and under which conditions it’s interrupted. You’ll learn a three-move model—Define, Design, Declare. First, Define: articulate your real attention stack (deep-focus, collaborative, admin) and the stakes each supports. Second, Design: set concrete rules for how work reaches each layer—packet templates, maximum durations, AI-prepared briefings. Third, Declare: publish and socialize the contract with your team and encode it into AI prompts, scheduling links, and message templates. By the end, you’ll have a practical mechanism that turns your attention from a fuzzy, negotiable resource into a shared, enforceable system. Clarity is leverage; this contract is how you protect where it starts: your focus.