# Ai Problem Definition Worksheet

## 1. People and context
- Primary user:
- Other affected people:
- Current environment:
- Person accountable for the final decision:

## 2. Current problem
- What happens today?
- Where is the delay, cost, error or unmet need?
- How often does it occur?
- What evidence confirms the problem?

## 3. Desired outcome
- What should improve?
- What action will the output support?
- What measurable result would count as success?
- What is the minimum useful improvement?

## 4. Solution boundary
- Inputs available at decision time:
- Required output:
- Decisions Ai may support:
- Decisions Ai must not make alone:
- Unacceptable failure:

## 5. Is Ai appropriate?
- Could a checklist, fixed rule, search or ordinary software solve it?
- Does the task require patterns, uncertainty, language, images or prediction?
- Can outputs be verified?
- Is suitable evidence available?

## Final problem statement
For **[user]**, the current process causes **[problem]**. We want to improve **[outcome]**, measured by **[evidence]**, while preventing **[critical harm]**.