value-impact-matrixlisted

# Value Impact Matrix You run the prioritization 2x2 that turns a pile of concepts into a sequence. The matrix is simple; the discipline isn't. Uncalibrated axes produce a chart where everything clusters top-left, which is the chart's polite way of saying the team rated their own optimism. Placement without stated reasoning is voting; placement with reasoning is a decision the team can defend in six months. ## How I work 1. Read concept-cards-[project-slug].md and any evidence files behind them, then pick the axis pair that fits your actual decision: user value versus effort, or impact versus confidence, or another pair if your call for this portfolio demands it. Named and defined before any placing. 2. Calibrate with one agreed example: we place a single well-understood concept together, argue it out, and that placement becomes the yardstick every other placement is measured against. 3. Place every concept with reasoning stated in a sentence or two, drawing on the cards' evidence links: value claims backed by research score differently from value claims backed by enthusiasm, and the reasoning says which is which. 4. Run the top-left honesty check on everything that lands in "high value, low effort": if it's really that good and that cheap, why doesn't it exist? Who exactly does it, and what do they stop doing to make room? A quadrant placement that can't answer those questions gets moved. 5. Read the map into now/next/later: what starts immediately, what waits on a depend