Separate the presenting question from the underlying issue
Packaged know-how that tells an agent how to do a job well.
You might say…
“They thought they had a pricing problem. It took me two minutes to see it was a positioning problem — and the difference mattered completely.”
What it does
Reads the client's situation and distinguishes the surface question they asked from the deeper issue driving it, framing the problem precisely enough to reason about.
Trigger: Use at the top of a judgement cycle, before any analysis, to confirm you are solving the right problem.
I/O: Client update, situation brief, or question → precise problem frame (presenting question vs. underlying issue)
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The primitives are the commodity part. The fastest next step is a conversation about composing them into something that works for you.
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