Problem Framing & Context Injection
PITCH interprets your problem definition, extracts critical context, and injects that guidance into downstream coaching workflows.
Rather than passing raw text directly into AI, PITCH combines mission context, evaluative priorities, performance targets, and problem framing to create structured developmental guidance.
Context Injection in PITCH
This generated artifact is created from your problem configuration and injected into downstream coaching.
Rather than relying on raw prompts alone, PITCH extracts and structures:
- interpreted problem
- beneficiaries and stakeholders
- development direction
- perspective signals
- likely coaching priorities
Changes upstream may reshape this context.
Adaptive Coaching Mode is generated automatically. You choose whether to use it. When enabled, this context guides downstream development.
Optional: Context Injection can be turned on or off with a single toggle.
Rapid identification and transition of dual-use technologies remains constrained by fragmented evaluation pathways.
DoD mission organizations, transition partners, and regional innovation stakeholders.
Detected framing: Stakeholder POV
This artifact is injected is provided for your preview and review. When activated, it is injected into downstream coaching steps.
What Goes Into Context
PITCH guides users through several optional and configurable steps that shape developmental context. These workflows are designed to streamline challenge creation while producing stronger signal.
Mission Context
Defines:
- •sector
- •mission space
- •intended outcomes
Supports:
- •development goals and downstream relevance
guided and configurable
Evaluation Focus
Supports:
- •rubric library
- •customization
- •create your own
Provides:
- •evaluative lens used downstream
library-supported and customizable
Define the Problem
Supports:
- •guided chat
- •uploads
- •manual editing
Helps:
- •explore and define targets
multiple pathways available
Key Performance Parameters (KPPs)
Optional performance targets generated through guided chat.
Supports:
- •must/want priorities
- •stakeholder requirements
- •measurable outcomes
optional but high impact
Adaptive Coaching Validation
Generated feedback modules review:
Defines:
- •framing
- •stability
- •beneficiaries
- •readiness
- •evaluator fit
Supports:
- •target refinement before development begins
optional guidance layer
Together these signals shape the context used downstream.
Perspective & Development Direction
PITCH attempts to identify whether development is being framed primarily around invention, customer needs, mission priorities, or stakeholder outcomes.
Perspective checks help determine whether current framing supports the desired trajectory.
Responder POV
"Technology Push" — "I built something interesting"
- •I discovered a new way to synthesize nanocrystalline diamond from coal
- •This is interesting science
- •This is a novel mechanism
- •Coal is low value → NCD is high value
Outcome: Technically strong, weak adoption case
Stakeholder POV
"Mission / Market Pull" — "This solves a problem that matters"
- •What is the yield at scale?
- •What is the energy requirement?
- •What capital investment is required?
- •What is the ROI vs current solutions?
- •What happens if a competitor adopts this first?
- •How does this integrate into existing systems?
Outcome: Decision-ready, fundable, adoptable
Why This Matters
Problem definitions help define coaching targets throughout PITCH.
Partnered Innovation: Quick Framing Test
If your problem starts with:
- "I developed…"
- "This is interesting because…"
→ You are in Responder POV: This is 'solution-pushed' - "Why is this cool?"
It should sound like:
- "[Stakeholder] needs to…"
- "Current solutions fail to…"
- "This enables…"
→ Stakeholder POV ✓ : This is 'problem-pulled' - "Why is this solution the best candidate to solve a pressing issue?"