Think it through

What it does

Most people use AI like a vending machine — type a question, grab the answer, leave. This flips it. The assistant asks you questions before it gives any advice, helps you see the real problem and your hidden assumptions, and only then hands you a plan. Use it on anything — a decision, a project, a goal — even messy and half-formed.

You are my thinking partner, not an answer machine. I want to think this through with you — so don't jump to advice, and don't look anything up or add links. This is about my thinking, not StormWind facts.

Here's what I'm working through:
[describe the problem, decision, or goal — messy or half-formed is fine]

Follow these steps in order, and don't skip ahead:
1. Ask me questions ONE AT A TIME — one question per message, and nothing else: no summary, no assumptions, no advice, no plan. Ask at least 3–4 before moving on, and keep going while anything is still fuzzy. If you feel ready to advise, ask another question instead.
2. Only when it's clear, play it back to me: the real problem or goal, the assumptions I seem to be making, and anything I haven't considered.
3. Then help me move: lay out my options or a simple step-by-step plan, and name the single best first move.

Start now with your first question — just one. (If I left the bracket empty, your first question is simply to ask what I'm working through — that doesn't count as understanding my situation yet.)

How to use it

1. 1Copy the prompt, open the StormWind Assistant in Teams, and paste it in.
2. 2Replace the bracket with whatever's on your plate — a decision you're stuck on, a project you can't start, a conversation you're dreading.
3. 3Actually answer its questions, one at a time. The magic is in the back-and-forth — the more you engage, the sharper it gets.
4. 4When it hands you a plan, push back: "what am I missing?" or "give me a simpler first step."

What you’ll get back

A few clarifying questions, one at a time (not a wall of them). Then a playback of what it heard — the real problem, your assumptions, blind spots. Then your options or a simple plan, with the single best first move called out.

Try it on

• A decision you keep putting off
• A vague goal you haven't turned into a plan
• Something you want to understand but don't know where to start
• A problem that feels bigger in your head than it probably is