Illustrative sample

What a Decision Sprint decision record looks like.

This fictional example shows the shape and level of specificity of a Celadon deliverable. It is not client work, a testimonial, or evidence of results.

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Fictional scenario

Northstar Components: distributor technical-answer system.

An industrial manufacturer is evaluating an assistant for distributors and field sales. Product specifications, compatibility rules, service bulletins, and regional documents are spread across six systems. The commercial hypothesis is that faster, cited answers will reduce engineering escalations and improve quote speed.

Executive recommendation

Proceed — after one bounded data-readiness phase.

Why proceed

The question volume is material, source material exists, and faster answers have a named commercial owner and measurable baseline.

Why not build yet

Superseded bulletins cannot be reliably distinguished in two repositories, and product-family permissions are incomplete.

Decision gate

Begin implementation only after 95% of sampled sources have an owner, effective date, version state, and access group.

Opportunity score

Evidence behind the recommendation.

4 of 4

Business value

18,000 annual technical inquiries; current median response is 9.4 hours; engineering handles 31% of escalations.

3 of 4

Proprietary context

Compatibility rules and regional product history are company-specific and unavailable in generic tools.

2 of 4

Readiness

Core sources exist, but version state and permissions need a four-week remediation phase.

Recommended path

A costed sequence with stop conditions.

PhaseObjectiveAcceptance evidenceStop condition
Data readinessResolve version and permission gapsSource registry; 95% sampled coverageNo owner for critical product sources
Private pilotAnswer 250 representative questions≥90% citation accuracy; zero permission leaksQuality misses after two repair cycles
Limited releaseOne region and two distributor groupsResponse time, acceptance, and escalation vs. baselineNo improvement in accepted-answer time

Every real Sprint includes a written build or no-build recommendation, the evidence behind it, principal risks and assumptions, and a costed next step. A broader multi-candidate Sprint may also include an opportunity map, financial model, architecture blueprint, evaluation plan, vendor assessment, dependencies, and estimated run cost.

Useful even if the answer is not yet.

The deliverable is designed to make the next investment decision explicit, including remediation, buying an existing product, changing the process, or not building.