assess-current-knowledge

Follow these steps:

1. Classify into four quadrants

• Verified facts: confirmed and directly supported
• Known unknowns: questions you know to ask — name each one
• Unrecognized knowledge: expertise or data you have but haven't applied here
• Blind spots: what you don't know you don't know — surface with probes, analogies, or outsider perspectives

2. Identify each item's source

• Direct observation
• Documentation
• Inference from related facts
• Assumption without evidence

Direct observation outweighs inference. Assumptions treated as facts propagate errors downstream.

3. Map the gaps