Jack Semantics analyses stakeholder input and converts it into an objective statement expressed at the correct analytical level.

Purpose: Step up and reformulate stakeholder input into objective statements
Input: Stakeholder statement
Output: Solution-agnostic Minimum Meaningful Message (MMM)
Mnemonic: RAISE

Jack Semantics establishes the first analytical step of the Stackable Jacks Method, providing the basis for Jack Points and Jack Tree.

The technique is designed to refine raw stakeholder input, allowing practitioners to effectively process and objectively reformulate statements that may include:

• Solution or design language.
• Personal or emotional framing.
• Unnecessary specificity or redundancy.
• Mixed operational and business context.

Jack Semantics teaches practitioners to recognise these patterns and apply controlled adjustments to:

• Remove solution references.
• Depersonalise the statement.
• Generalise narrow examples.
• Separate blended ideas.
• Express the meaning at the correct analytical level.

These adjustments remove subjectivity, reveal underlying context, and reduce conceptual complexity. The technique may be used independently when a neutral, clear context statement is required.