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Partnership Fit & Readiness Card

Organize the evidence, conditions, risks, and unresolved questions for one partnership before an authorized human review.

Built for: Partnership reviewers, program owners, legal and privacy partners, procurement stakeholders, executive sponsors, and authorized governance groups.

Time30–45 minutes
FormatFillable PDF + editable DOCX
OutputPrepared status + executive brief
AccessFramework open · Artifact name + email once

USEFUL BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD

What this tool asks you to confront

It informs whether the evidence package is ready for an authorized group to review. It cannot approve, reject, renew, pursue, pause, close, or terminate a partnership.

  1. What documented need does this partnership address, for whom, and with what proposed contribution?
  2. Which claims are VERIFIED, partial, UNKNOWN, UNVERIFIED, or PARTNER-GATED—and where is each source?
  3. Are privacy, safety, legal, procurement, and organizational capacity conditions actually satisfied?
  4. Who owns every unresolved condition, what evidence is needed, and when will it be reviewed?
  5. What decision is the authorized group being asked to make—and what is explicitly outside this preparation step?

INSIDE THE FRAMEWORK

The complete decision framework.

The framework is open below. The working artifact adds guided fields, calculations where applicable, and a decision-ready output.

01

Partnership Profile

Frame the partnership, documented need, intended population and reach, owners, approver, evidence sources, and decision date.

  • Need and intended reach
  • Internal owner and executive sponsor
  • Partner contact and evidence sources
  • Decision requested and review date
02

Fit & Readiness Review

Review nine criteria with an evidence state and a cited source or open question. UNKNOWN is a valid result.

  • Need and strategic fit
  • Contribution and coverage
  • Ownership and capacity
  • Stakeholder voice and equity
  • Data and privacy
  • Workflow and agreement readiness
  • Evidence and measurement
  • Risk and duplication
  • Exit and continuity
03

Must-Pass Conditions

Any unmet privacy, safety, legal, procurement, or capacity condition prevents READY FOR AUTHORIZED REVIEW.

  • Privacy
  • Safety
  • Legal
  • Procurement
  • Capacity
04

Conditions Register

Track each unresolved condition through an owner, due date, evidence requirement, status, review date, and resolution.

  • Condition and status
  • Owner and due date
  • Evidence needed
  • Review and resolution
05

Decision Preparation

Summarize known, assumed, unverified, and partner-gated information; evidence confidence; risks; conditions; and rationale.

  • Evidence-confidence summary
  • Prepared status and rationale
  • One-page executive brief
  • Separate authorized-decision record

WHAT YOU END UP WITH

Prepared status + executive brief.

A concise, evidence-aware output that keeps claims, uncertainty, ownership, and next decisions visible.

Prepared statusExactly one non-binding status: READY FOR AUTHORIZED REVIEW, MORE EVIDENCE NEEDED, REDESIGN NEEDED, or PAUSE.
Evidence pictureKnown, assumed, unverified, partner-gated, and locally reviewed items remain visibly separate.
ConditionsEvery unresolved condition shows its owner, evidence requirement, due date, and next review.
Executive briefA one-page preparation summary followed by a separate record for the actual authorized decision.

GET THE WORKING ARTIFACT

Put the open framework to work.

Enter your name and email once to unlock the working artifact. Entries remain in your file and are never collected or transmitted.

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