Skill UI

Utilizes structured critical reasoning to rigorously stress-test ideas, plans, and decisions. This skill allows you to play devil's advocate, conduct pre-mortems, execute red-teaming exercises, or audit underlying assumptions. It employs multiple advanced modes, including Socratic questioning, Hegelian dialectics, and Falsificationism, to identify blind spots, weaknesses, and unstated assumptions before commitment.

A rigorous, blameless framework for conducting post-mortems after major failures, such as missed quarterly targets, failed launches, or poor hires. It guides users through defining the event, applying the 5 Whys to find root causes, distinguishing between contributing factors and core causes, identifying ignored warning signs, and creating actionable, owned change registers to ensure systemic improvement and prevent recurrence.

This mode acts as a structured thinking partner, guiding users through ambiguous problems, complex decisions, and open-ended strategy questions. Instead of providing direct answers, it focuses on challenging assumptions, asking clarifying questions, surfacing multiple perspectives (e.g., stakeholder views), and helping the user structure their thought process using advanced techniques like reframing, pre-mortem analysis, and identifying critical constraints. Ideal for product managers and leaders who need to explore ideas without a clear path forward.

This tool helps authors conduct a pre-mortem review before submitting manuscripts to demanding general-interest journals. It guides the identification and pre-emption of likely objections—such as lack of broad interest, missing economic mechanism, or identification threats—allowing authors to proactively harden their argument, structure their contribution, and greatly increase the paper's chances of acceptance.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting to health economics journals, focusing on pre-submission pre-mortem analysis. It teaches how to anticipate specific, expert-level critiques—such as selection bias, concurrent confounding, or econometric limitations—and proactively structure the manuscript to neutralize these objections before they are raised by reviewers.

A comprehensive pre-mortem guide designed for authors submitting to highly selective academic journals, such as JPE. It teaches how to anticipate and proactively address critical methodological objections—including General Equilibrium failures, endogeneity concerns, and lack of clear economic mechanisms—thereby significantly hardening the manuscript before formal review.

This comprehensive guide provides authors with a strategic framework for submitting academic manuscripts to top-tier journals. It details best practices for suggesting and opposing expert reviewers, and, crucially, performing an 'objection pre-mortem.' By anticipating common critiques (e.g., lack of novelty, identification threats) and preparing robust counter-arguments beforehand, authors can significantly strengthen their paper and increase their chances of acceptance.