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title: Brief rubric description: A self-scoring rubric for a finished role brief, used before the brief is posted for approval.

Brief rubric

Score the brief before posting it. Each criterion scores 0, 1 or 2. A brief scoring under 14 of 20, or with any zero on criteria 1, 3 or 9, goes back to the intake.

#	Criterion	0	1	2
1	Outcomes	Skills or duties only	Outcomes without numbers	Three twelve-month outcomes with numbers
2	Why now	Missing	Generic ("growth")	A specific driver and, for a backfill, why the last person left
3	Must-haves	More than three, or untested	Three, but one fails the substitution test	Three, each survives the substitution test
4	Accepted weaknesses	Missing	Named vaguely	Named specifically
5	Profile line	Logo or title only	Partial motion detail	Price point, stage and self-sourced share or equivalent
6	Pay	Missing or "competitive"	Figures without source or split	Base, OTE, split and equity with a named source and the gap stated
7	Pitch	Missing or generic	Describes the job	Two sentences in the manager's words a good candidate would answer
8	Process contract	Missing	Stages only	Owners, feedback limits, work sample owner, submission route
9	Sign-off	One person	Some stakeholders	Everyone who can say no agreed the same version
10	Flags	Not run	Run, no fixes	Every flag has a severity and a fix, and every overruled blocking flag has a dated tripwire

Always check also: no requirement acts as a proxy for a protected attribute.