01 / The question
Name the decision, the accountable owner, the deadline and the cost of getting it wrong.
02 / The record
Keep evidence, assumptions, contradictions and exclusions attached to the reasoning they affect.
03 / The threshold
Write success and stopping conditions before the work begins, then preserve them through the review.
04 / The position
End with one written next move, its rationale and the conditions that would change the answer.