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Agree goals and scope
Learn what stakeholders need and write it down as the project scope.
For Project manager · Knowledge pack and an independent checker
What are you writing?
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 notes, documents or past examples it should rest on.
The 5 steps
- 01
Gather and frame
Then you approve, before the next step starts.
- 02
Outline
Then you approve, before the next step starts.
- 03
Draft
- 04
Independent check
- 05
Finish
How it does this well
One writer from the person's material, checked by a fresh reader. 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
checker- Checks a Cheatcode draft against its brief and its claims with fresh eyes, pass or fail per criterion.
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.