Templates
The blank artefacts each piece of research fills in.
Documents
Actor: <name>
Plain description. Their actual activity, not their positioning statement.
- draft
Domain brief: <ID> — <Name>
Two or three sentences. What breaks, what it costs, who feels it.
- draft
Metric: <name>
Precisely what quantity this is. Precisely enough that two people measuring independently would produce the same number.
- candidate
Solution: <name>
Plain description. What gets installed, changed or done.
Source: <short title>
Who produced this, who paid for it, and what do they want the reader to conclude? Answer even when the answer is "no evident interest".