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 |
Everything you currently think about sync, 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'.
Score each path against what actually matters here, then a gut score in a second pen.
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) | Reliability | Time to ship | Team morale | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rewrite from scratch | |||||
| Patch the worst parts | |||||
| Leave it alone |
Imagine the rewrite shipped and made things worse. Write the post-mortem.
Why did it fail? What did we miss? Don't be kind.
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.