Pressure-Testing a Plan (The Critic)
When you have a plan, an offer, a price, or a decision you are about to commit to, hand it to the critic.
“Roast my plan.” · “Pressure-test this.” · “Where does this break?”
What it does
Section titled “What it does”The critic wakes with no investment in your idea. It reads your constraint and attacks the plan through it — the work that is not moving your constraint, the assumption the whole thing rests on, the place where you are telling yourself something comfortable.
It will not redesign the plan for you. It shows you where it breaks so you can fix it yourself.
When to use it
Section titled “When to use it”Before you commit to a direction. It is a fast gut-check between sessions, not a substitute for the change sequence.
If you have not run the change sequence at all, the critic is not the shortcut. It will tell you that.
Why a separate reviewer
Section titled “Why a separate reviewer”The system that helped you build a plan is a poor judge of it — it shares every assumption you made together. The critic starts cold, which is the only way to get a genuinely independent read without waiting for reality to give you one.