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This bundle covers employment, financial, legal subject matter. It uses cited sources to support research, but it is not professional advice and should not be the sole basis for consequential decisions.
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Framework guide
Shape Up source-backed framework guide
Evidence-grounded planning, review, and authority boundaries for Shape Up.
Read the fileOverview
Shape Up overview
Scope, evidence, and authority boundaries for Shape Up.
Read the fileWorkflow
Shape Up source-backed workflow
Verify-first workflow for producing a reviewable shaped pitch, appetite, risk, and betting decision brief.
Read the fileTemplate
shaped pitch, appetite, risk, and betting decision brief
Review template for evidence-grounded Shape Up work.
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Who it is for
- Practitioners using Shape Up to structure analysis, decisions, facilitation, or review
- Teams working in Cross-industry, Business operations
When to use it
- A team needs to apply Shape Up to a concrete decision without skipping evidence, constraints, or stakeholder judgment.
- An existing analysis needs its assumptions, reasoning, affected parties, and review criteria checked.
What you need to provide
- The decision or question, available evidence, operating constraints, affected stakeholders, and desired outcome.
- Existing analysis, definitions, assumptions, examples, and review criteria that the framework must reconcile.
Tasks and expected outputs
Questions it helps answer
- Apply a named framework without inventing inputs, applicability, classifications, calculations, thresholds, or outcomes.
- Produce a reviewable decision artifact with explicit evidence, assumptions, alternatives, validation, and authority boundaries.
What it helps produce
- shaped pitch, appetite, risk, and betting decision brief
Practical example
Use it with an agent
Load the bundle as context, provide the evidence named above, then adapt this example to your situation.
Provide the decision or question, available evidence, operating constraints, affected stakeholders, and desired outcome. Ask the agent to apply Shape Up and produce shaped pitch, appetite, risk, and betting decision brief that shows how evidence maps to the framework, where judgment is required, and what remains unresolved. Begin with basecamp.com — Shapeup, then confirm that the reference is current and applicable. Inspect Shape Up source-backed framework guide before drafting.
Context path: bundles/frameworks/shape-up
What the bundle includes
Frameworks
- Shape Up
Evaluations
- Shape Up source verification check
Sources used to build this bundle
These are the public references behind the role definition and operating guidance. The bundle does not replace current documentation or evidence from your site.
Limitations and safe use
Do not use this for
- Applying the framework mechanically when the decision requires missing evidence, stakeholder judgment, or qualified review.
Known limitations
- Framework sources describe generalized concepts and methods; they do not establish local applicability, inputs, classifications, calculations, thresholds, decisions, authority, or outcomes.
- Task-specific conclusions require current inspected evidence for current source definitions and scope, local objective and context, inspected inputs, assumptions, alternatives, calculations, constraints, implementation, outcomes, validation, decision ownership, and approval evidence.
- This bundle does not grant authority to assign teams or deadlines, commit bets, change roadmap or process, cancel work, make employment decisions, deploy releases, or represent feasibility, delivery, value, or approval.
Safety notes
- Minimize personal, customer, employee, financial, credential, security, privileged, medical, and unreleased information.
- Preserve prompt-supplied facts as Provided and mark missing facts Needs verification; do not invent owners, dates, versions, reviewers, or system state.
- Require explicit confirmation from an evidenced authorized reviewer before taking any action to assign teams or deadlines, commit bets, change roadmap or process, cancel work, make employment decisions, deploy releases, or represent feasibility, delivery, value, or approval.