# [Title stating the proposal] · Narrative · [Date] **Author:** [PM] **Meeting:** [date]; silent reading in the first minutes **Decision needed:** [one sentence] This outline is a recommended shape, not an official format. Write in full paragraphs; tables and charts are fine where they carry data. Six pages is a ceiling. ## 1. Context and question (half a page) The situation, the complication and the question this document answers. End with the answer in one sentence. ## 2. Tenets (a few lines) The principles we're using to decide, stated so a reader can disagree with them. ## 3. Where we are today (one page) The current state, with data and sources. What customers say, in their words. What we've tried. ## 4. The proposal (one and a half pages) What we'll do, for whom and why. How it serves the tenets. What success looks like, in metrics. ## 5. Alternatives considered (half a page) Each serious alternative, including doing nothing, and why we didn't choose it. ## 6. Risks and mitigations (half a page) What could go wrong, how we'd know early and what we'd do. What would change our mind. ## 7. Plan and ask (half a page) Milestones, owners, cost and the specific decisions needed from this meeting. ## 8. Open questions What we don't know yet, and how we'll find out. ## Appendix (not counted in the six pages) Supporting data, detailed models, customer evidence, glossary. --- *How this was made: [AI use and verification line]*