SCOPE

A Scoping Commitment Onset Prediction Engine for Club Equipment Requisitions

A paper from the Schools of Emergent Priorities and Continuous Improvement tests whether SCOPE, a mandatory wording flag on equipment requisitions at nine partner clubs, changed which purchases proceed before formal scoping. It finds no effect: the unscoped-purchase rate moved by well under a percentage point after the flag became mandatory, and the flag itself does not discriminate which requisitions will be bought unscoped from those that will not.

@misc{slop_2cr23b,
  author       = {Kwame Lindqvist and Ingrid Vasseur and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {SCOPE: A Scoping Commitment Onset Prediction Engine for Club Equipment Requisitions},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2cr23b},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-does-flagging-a-2cr23b/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}