# Opportunity assessment
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Separate a customer problem from your preferred solution.

## Your working template

### Problem and audience
[Add your evidence, decision, or open question here.]

### Recent evidence with source IDs
[Add your evidence, decision, or open question here.]

### Current alternatives and workaround
[Add your evidence, decision, or open question here.]

### Frequency and severity: evidence versus estimate
[Add your evidence, decision, or open question here.]

### Value range and assumptions
[Add your evidence, decision, or open question here.]

### Main uncertainty
[Add your evidence, decision, or open question here.]

### Investigation plan
[Add your evidence, decision, or open question here.]

### Decision and owner
[Add your evidence, decision, or open question here.]

## Illustrative example
A support record describes repeated manual edits across many items. The request is bulk editing; the underlying opportunity is reducing repetitive configuration work. Observe the workflow and examine affected segments before estimating value.

## Before you share
Check source links, label assumptions, confirm owners, and remove confidential information you are not authorized to share. Examples are fictional learning scenarios, not customer results.