Executive summary
A structured way to document and test what a proposed partnership assumes about demand, costs, benefits and alternatives before anyone writes the investment case.
What is inside
What the research pack covers
The asset walks an evidence team from the proposed terms and partner materials to a scored assumption register, a source log with independence flags, and a prioritized research plan, then through a short research sprint that raises confidence on the assumptions that move the value case most.
- Scope: the assumption base for one proposed partnership, before the investment case is written
- Five assumption classes: demand, partner contribution, delivery cost, value capture and alternatives
- How observations are separated from hypotheses, with graded confidence
- A dated source log that records where every claim came from and how independent it is
- Prioritized research questions with owners, deadlines and stop rules
- A time-boxed research sprint that closes the gaps that matter most
- Handover standard for the options appraisal, with residual uncertainty stated