This prints black and white; the colour is your own ink. Colour each box with the pen you will use, then keep this page beside you as your key. No pen for a role? Write its letter in a circle.
| Your colour | Code | Role | Meaning | Pen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q | Ask | a numbered question for the AI | your pen, or write Q | |
| R | Stop | blocker, risk, broken, or not understood | your pen, or write R | |
| G | Keep | evidence, confident, something that worked | your pen, or write G | |
| X | Crux | the one thing that matters most | highlighter | |
| O | Maybe | an idea, a possibility, a what-if | your pen, or write O | |
| P | Sense | gut feeling, intuition, felt reaction | your pen, or write P | |
| D | Draft | provisional; do not trust yet | your pen, or write D | |
| B | Reason | what you think; the main content | black |
Every name you can think of for this project, good or bad, before you sort any of it.
Empty the tank. No structure, no judgement. 8 minutes. Then, beside each item, write its next step, or 'none'.
Getting the bad names out on the page clears room for the better ones.
1–9 should be bad on purpose. 10 is whatever surprised you.
Force a collision between the project and each word below. See what falls out.
Stop here. Take a real break, and make it something easy and different: a walk, chores, or sleep on it.
Don't reread the pages before this one. Put them face down and leave the desk.
Put each candidate name in the pile it belongs in, not the one you wish it did.
No cutting: write each candidate from the names from W1-P2 through W1-P4 straight into the pile it belongs to.
Score the strongest names against what the name actually has to do.
Score your gut first, before any criteria. Then score each criterion (0–3) and total them. The gap between gut and total is the point.
| Option | Gut (first) | Easy to say | Available | Fits the pitch | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survivor 1 | |||||
| Survivor 2 | |||||
| Survivor 3 |
Circle one: commit / hold / drop. Then plan the first move as if-then.
Write your questions for the AI with your Ask pen (or a circled Q), numbered. These come back with the photos.
Photograph each page flat and send them back together.