Proposal Review

Give a constructive adversarial review of a completed proposal before specifications and design. Strengthen the chosen direction by challenging its motivation, scope, and high-level approach—not by manufacturing objections or writing a replacement proposal.

Review

Read the full proposal, relevant existing specifications and code, and repository context. Research credible alternatives and current external evidence when they materially affect the assessment.

Spend depth in proportion to impact and reversibility. Look for consequential concerns such as:

• a weakly evidenced problem, mistimed investment, or simpler non-build alternative;
• scope that is too broad, too narrow, internally unclear, or unlikely to solve the stated problem;
• capabilities that do not create a coherent contract for later specifications;
• a high-level architecture that conflicts with existing patterns, adds avoidable complexity, or ignores important failure, migration, rollout, maintenance, or second-order effects;
• major decisions made without rationale or without considering a plausible better alternative.