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Assumption Stress Test
Turn a confident plan into testable assumptions, counterarguments, and next experiments.
AI tools & resources
Use the tool.
Keep the judgment.
Practical prompts and resources for founders and innovation leaders. These are starting points for better thinking, not substitutes for expertise, evidence, or conversations with real people.
The Toolkit
Open a question worth testing.
Additional tools, deeper frameworks, and facilitated exercises are available through Julien’s workshops and educational engagements.
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The Differential Diagnosis
Ask whether you are solving the real problem or treating a symptom.
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Who Pays, Who Decides, Who Benefits
Map the people who use, fund, approve, block, and benefit from your idea.
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The Pre-Mortem
Imagine the initiative failed, then identify the signals you could see early.
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Stakeholder Perspective Shift
Examine a decision from the perspectives of the people who will live with its consequences.
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Make the AI Disagree With You
Add productive opposition to any prompt before agreement becomes false confidence.
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View and print ↗Decision Debrief Canvas
Separate outcome, process quality, surprise, and what should change next.
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Better Prompts in 5 Moves
Add context, perspective, constraints, productive friction, and a useful output.
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A working discipline
AI can widen the field. Human judgment decides what matters.
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Surface the assumptions. Make the current story and its hidden premises visible.
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Seek another perspective. Look for friction, missing voices, and consequences.
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Return to judgment. Decide what is true, useful, and worth testing with real people.
Go deeper
Bring the thinking into the room.
Julien adapts these tools into facilitated exercises for founders, healthcare leaders, scientists, and innovation teams.
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