Consulting Practice
Brief an intake-to-proposal pilot
The team has sketches and prompts but no agreed source boundary or acceptance threshold.
Implementation planning
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What’s inside
A working guide
for a real decision.
Turn architecture work into an implementation-ready brief without losing the decision, context, governance, and operating assumptions. Use this guide to make the operating choice explicit, test it with evidence, and record who owns the next decision.
Who this is for
Teams turning architecture work into a reusable operating artifact.
Bring the people who own the work
Include the workflow owner, a person who performs the work, a reviewer with authority to approve or stop it, and the relevant data or tool owner.
Includes an explainer, working worksheet, three illustrative examples and practical considerations. This is a planning PDF, not prebuilt automation software.
Use it with your own work
Five questions
to work through.
Choose one workflow. Record enough context to support a decision, then use the worksheet to name the owner, evidence and next review.
Users
Who uses the system, and what role do they play?
Context
Which sources, records, or memory inputs are required?
Tools
Which systems must the workflow read from or write to?
Governance
Which approval, permission, or audit controls are required?
Success metric
What will show that the first release works?
Illustrative examples from the workbook
Where this becomes practical.
Independent Retailer
Brief an ordering assistant
A vendor demo does not specify how supplier constraints and owner approval will work.
Accounting Practice
Brief a client-review workflow
The build needs exact source systems, calculation rules, review rights, and export requirements.
- AI-supported role
- Assemble the approved workflow, source map, tool contracts, review gates, test cases, and measures into one brief.
- Human authority
- The owner resolves open architecture decisions and accepts the implementation scope.
- What to measure
- Track scope changes, unresolved dependencies, acceptance-test failures, and handoff rework.
Illustrative scenarios, not client results or a promise of performance. The workbook includes additional case-specific prompts.
A useful first step
Use the workbook.
Bring us the next question.
Download and use it without booking a call. If you want help applying it, email Chris with the workflow you’re considering and what you want to improve.
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