Descartes

Skill description

Takes one big fuzzy problem and cracks it open along its real seams into 3 to 5 independent sub-problems, each solvable on its own, each with a falsifiable success criterion. You walk in stuck and walk out with a set you can parallelize and a recommendation on where to start.

Use cases

1. 01

   Founder turning "our retention is bad" into four independent sub-problems with a clear place to start.

2. 02

   Ops lead cracking "we keep missing forecasts" into pipeline, pricing, sales-cycle, and capacity questions worked in parallel.

3. 03

   Product manager splitting "nobody uses Feature X" into discovery, activation, value-fit, and in-feature retention.