Results for “bad-news”

Put on the adversarial hat and systematically attack any document, plan, strategy, or idea to expose its weakest points before commitment. Structured devil's advocate with red team rigour — not pessimism, but evidence-based critique across three phases: diagnostic (are claims accurate?), creative (is the problem artificially constrained?), challenge (are solutions robust?). Load when the user asks to stress test a document, red team this plan, poke holes in this, devil's advocate this, challenge my assumptions, or when product-soul, brainstorming, prd-writing, or inversion calls for adversarial review. Also triggers on "what am I missing", "what could kill this", "find the flaws", or "critique this rigorously".

Identifies common creative thinking anti-patterns and provides detection methods and alternatives.

Run Mom Test–style customer-discovery interviews to validate or kill an unbuilt idea — generate a non-leading interview guide, conduct or coach the conversations, and synthesize signal vs compliments. Load when the user asks to do customer discovery, run problem interviews, validate an idea with users, run a Mom Test, design an interview guide, or says "talk to customers", "validate the problem", "interview users", "Mom Test this", "did real users want it", "synthesize my interviews", "I just talked to N people". Sub-skill of `venture-exploration`. Hard-bans "would you use this?", solution-pitching, friend/family-only ICP, and treating compliments as validation. Calls `secure-*` before synthesizing any pasted external transcripts.