Ambiguity → Clarity
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Sponsor request
“Help us understand the AI funding landscape.”
Team operating goal
By our next sponsor checkpoint, identify 20 relevant funding opportunities, evaluate each against agreed eligibility and strategic-fit criteria, and recommend the five warranting deeper investigation.
Ambiguous
Specific
Research
Deliverable
Interesting
Relevant
Eventually
Deadline
Opinion
Evaluation criteria
The goal should tell the team what “done” looks like.
Week 2 — Clarity Before VelocitySPXLab.Partners
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