Use when analyzing failures, outages, incidents, or negative outcomes, conducting blameless postmortems, documenting...
AI & LLM
LLM integrations, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration
Use when proposing new features/products, documenting product requirements, creating concise specs for stakeholder...
Use when stakeholders need aligned working agreements, resolving decision authority ambiguity, navigating...
Use when clarifying fuzzy boundaries, defining quality criteria, teaching by counterexample, preventing common...
Use when prompts produce inconsistent or unreliable outputs, need explicit structure and constraints, require safety...
Use when reasoning across multiple abstraction levels (strategic/tactical/operational), designing systems with...
Use when making decisions under time pressure or uncertainty, preventing errors in complex procedures, designing...
Use when writing or reviewing NIH, NSF, or foundation grant proposals. Invoke when user mentions specific aims, R01,...
Use when managing time and attention, combating procrastination or context-switching, prioritizing high-impact work,...
Use when evaluating business model viability, analyzing profitability per customer/product/transaction, validating...
Use when running meetings, workshops, brainstorms, design sprints, retrospectives, or team decision-making sessions....
Use when making decisions under uncertainty with quantifiable outcomes, comparing risky options (investments,...
Use when decisions could affect groups differently and need to anticipate harms/benefits, assess fairness and safety...
Use when making quick order-of-magnitude estimates under uncertainty (market sizing, resource planning, feasibility...
Use when you have validated symmetry groups and need to design neural network architecture that respects those...
Use when formulating clinical research questions (PICOT framework), evaluating health evidence quality (study design...
Use when designing database schemas, need to model domain entities and relationships clearly, building knowledge...
Use when brainstorming feels stuck or generates obvious ideas, need to break creative patterns, working with limited...
Use when transforming analysis/data into persuasive narratives—presenting to executives, explaining technical...
Use when cooking or planning meals, troubleshooting recipes, learning culinary techniques (knife skills, sauces,...
Use when planning high-stakes initiatives (migrations, launches, strategic changes) that require clear...
Use when making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty that require stakeholder buy-in. Invoke when evaluating...
Use when you need to generate many creative options before systematically narrowing to the best choices. Invoke when...
Use when teams need shared direction and decision-making alignment. Invoke when starting new teams, scaling...