10decodersDo you have a use case worth scoring yet?
A framing day only produces a shortlist if the inputs are already in the room. Ten questions about the work itself — candidate, data, cost of error, ownership — tell you whether you're ready to score or whether you'd spend the day rediscovering your own process.
Most framing days discover your process rather than score it.
A framing day is meant to produce a shortlist, a kill list and a plan. When the inputs are missing, it becomes a process discovery session — useful, but not what you paid for. These are the gaps that cost you the day.
No scoreable candidate
An area of concern rather than a named process with a volume count. Scoring a department produces a ranked list of guesses, not a defensible shortlist.
The designed process, not the real one
The account on offer matches the written procedure. The rework loops, side spreadsheets and the one person everyone forwards the hard ones to have not surfaced yet.
Data readiness asserted, not shown
Confidence without a sample to back it. The commonest cause of a prototype that works on clean test records and fails on the actual estate within a week.
No accuracy baseline
The current rework rate is unknown, so there is nothing for a machine to be measured against. Any accuracy number produced later is unfalsifiable — including a good one.
Alternatives never checked
Neither prior attempts nor cheaper non-AI options have been assessed. A rules engine often does the job for a fraction of the cost. This is where most of a kill list comes from.
No owner for the ninety days
Nobody has capacity to carry the shortlist, the kill list and the plan. Without an owner, the output is a document — and the initiative stops when one person takes leave.
Rate your use case in 10 questions
Ten questions across candidate, data state, cost of error and ownership. Answer the way things actually are — the score is only useful if you do.
Question 1 of 10 · Candidate
Which processes handle your highest volume of repetitive decisions, and who would notice tomorrow if they stopped?
A process with a monthly count and a named person who feels the pain.
