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Starter Kit
The Clarity Quick Assessment is a lightweight way to examine the beliefs behind a project, decision, proposal, architecture, methodology, or strategy. It is designed to be usable in 15–30 minutes.
The site explains Clarity. The Starter Kit lets someone try it.
Clarity is a framework for making beliefs, assumptions, evidence, confidence, ownership, and reassessment explicit so people can adapt when reality changes.
That includes triggers. A trigger is based on a claim about what a signal means, so trigger design should be revised when reality shows the threshold or signal is no longer useful.
Clarity Quick Assessment v1
Claim
What are we acting as if true?
Posture
Discovery / Commitment / Reassessment
Evidence
What evidence supports this claim?
Assumptions
What must be true for this claim to hold?
Confidence
Low / Moderate / High
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?
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?
Recommended Action
Proceed / gather evidence / reduce scope / reassess / adapt
How To Use It
5. Check whether confidence exceeds evidence.
6. Name the monitoring signal, threshold, and trigger claim.
7. Define the response and one reassessment trigger.
8. Decide how you would reassess the trigger itself.
9. Decide the next action.
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 strategy that depends on assumptions
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