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title: Quadrant Shifting
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author: Andrew Templeton
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# Quadrant Shifting

## Definition

Capital investments that move a task to a better position on the Verification Quadrant. Five moves: build a verifier, decompose the task, enrich inputs, constrain outputs, build a rubric.

## Why this term exists

The quadrant isn't destiny. If you can build a verifier that makes verification cheap, a task that was "don't automate" becomes "automate now." That verifier is a capital investment with compounding returns.

## See also

- [Quadrant Shifting Tool](https://templeton.host/tools/quadrant-shifting)
- [Verification Quadrant](https://templeton.host/tools/verification-quadrant)
- [AI Sweet Spot](https://templeton.host/lexicon/ai-sweet-spot)
- [Verification Trap](https://templeton.host/lexicon/verification-trap)
- [Construction Spread](https://templeton.host/lexicon/construction-spread)

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