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Choose the approach
Pick a delivery approach and set up the team.
For Project manager · Knowledge pack and an independent checker
What are you deciding?
One line is enough. Step 1 asks the rest in your AI app, and nothing is done until you approve the brief it writes.
In the case folder's materials/: The options and anything you already know about them.
The 4 steps
- 01
Agree the criteria
Then you approve, before the next step starts.
- 02
Lay out the options
- 03
Score independently
Then you approve, before the next step starts.
- 04
Recommend
How it does this well
Criteria first, independent scorers, sensitivity in code. Not found and out of scope are valid answers here: it says so instead of guessing.
- How the field does this well
- Synthesize in two stages: one snapshot per interview or source, then the structure across them; a bad snapshot corrupts everything above it.
- Classify the materials before synthesis: a sales demo or a stakeholder meeting is not a customer interview.
- Link feedback to existing items; never invent new features or themes without the quotes behind them.
- Write the spec from an interview with the person, then review it against its own stated goals.
- Ground it first
Ask for, or look in materials/ for: the product's goals and success metrics, and any past specs or research notes. If there is none, say plainly that the result rests on general defaults, and name them.
- What stays with the person
Which opportunity to pursue, scope tradeoffs, and the bet itself. Prepare these; never decide them.
- The check that makes it trustworthy
Every theme, opportunity or requirement cites the source and quote behind it, and the result is checked against the goals the person approved.
- The person's own data
If the person has connected Linear, Jira + Confluence, Notion, Amplitude, PostHog, Figma, read their data through that connector instead of asking for exports, and say which source each number or fact came from. Without one, work from materials/.
The agents
scorer- Scores every option in a Cheatcode decision on every criterion, independently, with evidence.
red-team- Makes the strongest case against the leading option in a Cheatcode decision.
Where things stay
- On your computer
- Your files in materials/, every result in outputs/, the work itself. It runs in your AI app, on the plan you already pay for.
- With Cheatcode
- The steps, the gates and how far each case has come, so a case survives closing the app. See your cases.