Quick Answer
For search, voice, and "just tell me what to do".
Why the Greatest Use of AI Is Seeing What Youāre Blind To.
Key Takeaways:
- Blind Spot Detection: You cannot see what you cannot see. AI can.
- The 'Pre-Mortem': Fixing the plan before it fails.
- Pattern Recognition: Finding the hidden thread in 100 disparate data points.
In-Depth Analysis
The Mirror
The hardest thing to see is yourself. The second hardest thing to see is the flaw in your own "perfect" plan. We fall in love with our ideas. Love makes us blind.
AI as dispassionate Observer
AI doesn't love your idea. It doesn't care about your feelings. It processes your text as tokens. If your logic has a gap, the path of the tokens will break.
Use Cases
- Contract Review: "What clauses in here are dangerous for me?"
- Code Review: "Where is the security vulnerability?"
- Strategy Review: "I want to sell luxury ice to Eskimos. Validate this market." (AI: "This market does not exist.")
Use the machine to break your ego so the market doesn't have to.
Playbook
The 'Critique' Prompt: Paste your plan. Ask: 'What assumes are weak here? What data is missing?'
The 'Steel Man' Argument: Ask AI to make the strongest possible argument *against* your favorite idea. If you can't defeat it, your idea involves work.
The Translation: Ask AI to re-write your technical pitch for a 5-year-old. If the logic fails simply, it fails complexly.
Common Pitfalls
- Confirmation Bias: Prompting the AI to agree with you. ('Tell me why I'm right').
- Hallucination Acceptance: Believing the AI's critique without checking the facts.
- Ego Defense: Getting angry at the machine for calling out your flaws.
Metrics to Track
Flaws Detected Pre-Launch
Pivot Velocity
Confidence Interval
FAQ
Is AI better than a consultant?
It is cheaper and faster. It is less politically savvy. A consultant might lie to flatter you. AI won't (unless you tell it to).
Does this kill creativity?
No. Constraint breeds creativity. Finding out your plan is flawed forces you to be *more* creative to fix it.
Related Reading
AI as a Silent Partner
Explores the philosophy of AI as a background collaboratorānever the voice, always the amplifier. This approach centers on maintaining strict boundaries, using intentional prompts to guide output rather than surrendering to it, and sharpening human discernment. The goal is to remain the final moral and creative authority, using AI to handle the cognitive heavy lifting without eroding the human soul of the business.
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