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Quick Assessment Template

Use this when you want the Clarity quick-assessment structure without the interactive browser workflow. It is designed for one claim, one owner, and one practical recommendation. The monitoring and trigger model is optional.

The interactive assessment and this template now use the same framework fields, so teams can move between them without changing the underlying model.

Clarity Quick Assessment Template

Start with the core: claim, posture, available support, assumptions, confidence, correctability, owner, and recommendation. Use the monitoring and trigger fields only when they would help.

Evidence can be quantitative or qualitative. If it is limited or absent, say so; do not relabel an assumption or preference as evidence.

Claim

What are we acting as if true?

Posture

Discovery / Commitment / Reassessment

Evidence

What relevant information or observation supports this claim? “Limited” or “none yet” is an honest answer.

Assumptions

What must be true for this claim to hold?

Confidence

Low / Moderate / High

Correctability

How recoverable is action if the claim is wrong?

Owner

Who owns this claim and its consequences?

Monitoring Signal

What will we watch?

Threshold

What level or event requires attention?

Trigger Claim

Why does this threshold matter?

Action Trigger

What condition requires immediate action?

Immediate Response

What happens when the trigger fires?

Reassessment Trigger

What condition requires reviewing the claim?

Trigger Reassessment

What would tell us the trigger is too sensitive, too weak, or no longer useful?

Generated Recommendation

Proceed / gather evidence / reduce scope / reassess / adapt, based on the reasoning chain above

How To Use the Core

1. Pick one claim.

2. Assign a posture.

3. List the evidence.

4. Surface assumptions.

5. Check confidence against the current evidence.

6. Assess correctability before extending commitment.

7. Let the recommendation follow from the reasoning, including the cost of waiting, not the other way around.

Optional advanced use: Add a signal, threshold, trigger claim, immediate response, and reassessment condition when the decision benefits from an operating model.

Why Split Triggers

A trigger is a predefined condition that prevents teams from continuing blindly when reality changes.

Some triggers exist to force immediate action. Others exist to force reassessment. Both support adaptation.

Both are based on claims about what a signal means, so both should be revisited when reality shows the threshold is poorly calibrated.

Good First Uses

A project that feels stuck

A proposal that sounds convincing but untested

A product idea

An architecture decision

A methodology change

A postmortem explanation

A strategy that depends on assumptions

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Simple printable browser version of the same template.

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TODO: Add PDF generation only if the site later adds a supported PDF workflow.