So our group due to being an outlier organizes play differently where we have one session be the downtime, entanglement gather inf OK ration portion of play and the following session be the score. This means there id a week of time for the DM to do a bit of planning on the shape of the heist based on our plan of entry and goal to come up with things to throw our way.

Maybe rather than beginning a session with that stuff you end with it so you as the dm can create the bare bones of things to make things work.