LCA Skills workflow

Clarify the decision, audience, deliverable, expected claim, and confidentiality or licensing constraints. The goal is to understand what evidence the study actually needs.

• Functional unit and reference flow
• System boundary
• Geography and time
• Allocation or substitution rules
• Data-quality expectations
• Impact-method requirements

Do not calculate while unresolved scope choices could materially change the interpretation.

Create a study workspace and break the work into tasks with inputs, outputs, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and evidence requirements.

Document the foreground system and check units, signs, reference products, provider links, physical balances where relevant, and duplicate credits or omissions.

Record the exact tool and version, database, model or activity, impact method, functional basis, and run settings.

Evaluate hotspots, scenarios, sensitivity, uncertainty, data quality, and limitations. Material review findings should trigger correction and, when necessary, recalculation.

Preserve assumptions, model identifiers, run records, results, review findings, and release state so another person can resume the study without depending on chat history.