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ask-zeus

Your strategic adviser for achieving stated objectives through clarity, leverage, and integrity.

  • Area: Strategy
  • Category: business
  • Level: beginner
  • Input: conversation
  • Output: document
  • Setup: none
  • Roles: CEO / Founder

1:1 strategic coaching using first-principles thinking and mental models against the user's personal knowledge base.

How you ask

  • “ask zeus”
  • “coach me”
  • “I need advice”
  • “help me decide”
  • “Zeus.”

Inputs

  • request — The bounded choice and its near-term deadline — what is being decided and by when.
  • scope — company, or a client-id under {company.clients}/ — a string with one reserved value, not a closed set
  • request — The complex or identity-level trade-off to analyze, including known variables, constraints, and what has already been ruled out.
  • request — The goal, principle, or time period to check recent actions against.
  • request — The problem or situation the user is still working out, without a decision already framed.

Outputs

  • Accountability review — stated goals compared to recent actions, drift or gaps flagged, and course corrections suggested.
  • D-S-F-C record — the deconstructed decision, knowledge-base synthesis, mental model applied, and the recommendation with named trade-offs.
  • Reflective question set that surfaces the real problem beneath the one originally stated.
  • Session record for the quick-decision pass — clarifying questions asked, the quick filter applied, and the call made.
  • {scope.processes}/ask-zeus-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md