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Run the readiness check
Test the proposal against the exact conditions needed for a useful decision review.
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Decision-Ready Design Review
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15 min
Beginner
Decisions
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Need to Make a Decision
Check whether a technical proposal is ready for a real decision before putting it in front of reviewers.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Prevent design reviews from stalling because the decider, tradeoffs, evidence, open questions, or decision deadline weren't made clear.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Confirm the blockers
Separate meeting blockers from improvements that can wait until after the decision.
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Set up the next move
Either request revisions before the meeting or run a focused review with a defined decision point.
Make Your Play
Decision-Ready Design Review
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Paste the technical proposal, design summary, or review document you want checked.
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Describe the meeting, attendees, current disagreement, and decision the team expects from the review.
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List the known decider, decision deadline, and impact of waiting. State when any detail is unknown.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Run the readiness check
Test the proposal against the exact conditions needed for a useful decision review.
02
Confirm the blockers
Separate meeting blockers from improvements that can wait until after the decision.
03
Set up the next move
Either request revisions before the meeting or run a focused review with a defined decision point.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Paste the current proposal, even if it’s rough. Include what the meeting is supposed to decide and who has final say if that’s already known. Treat every “Missing” result as a fact to clarify, not an invitation to solve the design yourself.
Advanced instructions
Ask the AI to separate reversible and hard-to-reverse choices, flag evidence that could change the recommendation, and identify questions that should be resolved asynchronously before the meeting.
Use this when
You have a technical design review coming up and need to confirm the proposal is ready for a decision, not just discussion.
You'll need
- Proposal text
- Review context
- Decision details
You'll get
- A review-readiness verdict recorded
- A specific decision statement defined
- A decider and deadline confirmed or flagged as missing
- Required tradeoffs, evidence, and open questions listed
- A revision request or focused review agenda ready to use.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A review-readiness verdict recorded
- A specific decision statement defined
- A decider and deadline confirmed or flagged as missing
- Required tradeoffs, evidence, and open questions listed
- A revision request or focused review agenda ready to use.
Examples
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