# {Project} — project brief

> Source material: {list every document, transcript, call}
> Written: {date} · Last revised: {date}

## Problem

{The client's own words, quoted. Then one sentence of your reading of the problem
underneath it — labelled as your reading, not theirs.}

## Success metric

| Metric | Baseline | Target | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| {primary} | {or UNRESOLVED} | {or UNRESOLVED} | {who said so} |

Secondary / guardrail metrics: {what must not get worse}

## Users and jobs

| Who | The job they're hiring this for | How we know |
|---|---|---|

## Constraints

| Constraint | Kind | Confirmed by |
|---|---|---|
| | platform / data / integration / compliance / timeline / team | |

Unconfirmed constraints needing an engineer: {list}

## Assumption register

Sorted by cost of being wrong, descending.

| # | Assumption | Owner | Cost if wrong | Cheap to test? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|

## The three questions

1.
2.
3.

## Out of scope

{Named explicitly, so nobody is surprised in week eight.}

## Open — unresolved

{Everything you could not determine from the material. An honest gap beats a guess.}