gstack-plan-ceo-review

A strategy review stress-tests a product plan by challenging assumptions and reshaping scope to pursue a 10-star outcome. It applies four decision modes—scope expansion, selective expansion, hold, or reduction—to adjust ambition with rigor before implementation.

Scope expansion is a decision mode used during a founder review to think bigger and actively pursue the 10-star version of a product. You use it when you are unsure whether your plan is ambitious enough and want to rethink the problem before proceeding.

To challenge premises during a founder review, you rethink the core problem and perform an adversarial review of the plan. This involves pulling prior CEO plans and recent design docs to ground the critique and avoid repeating past mistakes.

Yes, you can selectively expand or reduce scope. The review supports four explicit modes: scope expansion, selective expansion, hold scope, and scope reduction, allowing you to adjust specific areas of ambition rather than changing the entire plan uniformly.

A CEO plan review retrieves prior CEO plans and recent design documents to ground its analysis in project-aware context. While it reads recent review activity to avoid repeating mistakes, the core requirement is selecting a decision mode to proceed.

You should avoid using scope management decision modes after implementation proceeds. The review is designed to rethink a plan's ambition before implementation begins, enforcing plan-mode safety rather than modifying active development cycles.