Skill

Bound the addressable scope

Decides which part of the diagnosed problem the firm can and should address, and frames it as a credible engagement boundary with explicit in/out scope and expected outcome.

In / outDiagnosed problem + firm capabilities → engagement boundary statement (in scope, out of scope, expected outcome)

You might say…

We know the problem but we're trying to eat too much of it — we need to draw a line.

What it does

Decides which part of the diagnosed problem the firm can and should address, and frames it as a credible engagement boundary — what is in, what is out, and the expected outcome. Used once the problem is clear, to produce an articulable problem-and-scope pairing.

Trigger: Use once the problem is clearly diagnosed to produce an articulable problem-and-scope pairing before any proposition is drafted.

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The primitives are the commodity part. The fastest next step is a conversation about composing them into something that works for you.

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