Complete the Three-Option Solution Paper (Including Stop)
Explore how to create a comprehensive three-option solution paper that presents decision contracts, feasibility, and scoring to AI review boards. Understand how to define option scopes, assumptions, and evidence requirements, enabling auditability and traceable decisions. Learn to formulate options including minimal builds, higher-capability builds, and alternatives like buy or stop decisions, ensuring measurable outcomes and governance readiness.
Every component is now defined: the decision contract, the feasibility verdict, the decision ladder step, the delivery models, and the scorecard. What is missing is the single document that presents them to a review board. That artifact is the three-option solution paper, written so the board can approve, challenge, or reject the recommendation without needing to reconstruct missing context. It must meet three criteria. Completeness means each option defines its scope boundaries, operating assumptions, and the next evidence needed. Traceability means every claim can be traced through the decision chain, from the KPI, through feasibility triage and the decision ladder, to option framing and the scored recommendation. Auditability means assumptions are clearly distinguished from evidence, decision gates are explicit, and a stop or defer memo is treated as a valid outcome when the constraints or expected value do not support moving to a more complex option.
The visual shows a template of the three-option solution paper, including where the KPI table, feasibility notes, and scorecard sit, and where assumptions and evidence links must appear.