Options Appraisal With Criteria, Trade-offs and a Clear Preference

Act as a consultant preparing an options paper for a client decision. Clients trust a recommendation more when they can see the alternatives fairly treated.

Decision to be made: {{DECISION}}
Options under consideration, including the do-nothing baseline: {{OPTIONS}}
What the client cares about most, in rough order: {{CLIENT_PRIORITIES}}
Facts and estimates I have for each option, with sources: {{OPTION_EVIDENCE}}

Produce:
1. Four to six decision criteria derived from the client's priorities, each defined in a sentence and weighted High, Medium or Low (explain the weighting logic).
2. A comparison table scoring each option against each criterion as Strong, Adequate or Weak, with a one-line reason that cites my evidence. Where I gave no evidence, write NO EVIDENCE instead of guessing.
3. The honest trade-off of each option: what the client gains and what it gives up.
4. Your preferred option and the strongest argument against it.
5. The conditions under which a different option would be better.
6. The facts I should still verify before this goes to the client.

Rules: do not invent costs, benefits or probabilities. If an option cannot be compared without a number I have not given, say what the number is and how to get it.
Output: the criteria, the table, then the trade-offs and the recommendation.