Recover the pre-test decision record
30-60 min
30-60 min
Document hypothesis, primary metric, guardrails, changed variable, control, treatment, split, planned runtime, minimum detectable effect, and stop conditions. Work from Google Ads using experiment ID, base campaign, trial campaign, experiment split as the minimum evidence set. Complete this work in Google Ads or the controlled working file; no Claude prompt is needed for this step. Save the finished artifact in the experiment decision and next-test brief with the run date, owner, evidence reference, confidence, and approval status. Treat budget caps as a separate exception class and do not count it as failure unless the policy says so.
Recover the pre-test decision record completed as a dated section of the experiment decision and next-test brief, with experiment ID, incremental conversions, evidence links, owner, and approval status for graduate the winner.
Do not let experiment ID stand in for base campaign; that shortcut creates false positives in campaign experiment readout. Document the result in the same run folder so the next cycle can compare like with like. Apply it specifically during “Recover the pre-test decision record.”