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Keep RICE honest for AI roadmap calls

Use RICE questions and anti-gaming checks to prioritize AI roadmap items.

RICE What does RICE force you to estimate? Four factors, one score. Recall A founder says: "The agent is strategically important, so the RICE score does not matter." The agent has unclear reach, unknown model quality, and two months of effort. Your line We can still choose it strategically, but let's make the exception explicit. RICE says confidence and effort are weak; if we proceed, it should be framed as a learning bet with a kill threshold. Using strategy language to avoid naming uncertainty. It does not worship the score, but it prevents hiding the trade-off. Compare normal effort and…

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