One prompt. Six lenses. 72 ways to think — without losing your soul.

🔹 The Problem Setup

Prompt:

My best friend’s startup is running out of cash. They’ve asked me to invest £25,000 to help them make it through the next 6 months. It’s a tech platform for local freelance services, think Uber for odd jobs, but uptake’s been weak and their team’s been shrinking.

They still believe in it 100%, but I honestly don’t. I think the idea’s flawed and the market’s moving on. The money would come from my savings. We’ve known each other 15 years, gone through everything together.

I love them. I want them to succeed. But we don’t see eye to eye on this. I’m scared I’ll lose the money AND the friendship. What do I do?

🔹 Six Lenses, Six Ways of Thinking

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• 🔍 Reflective Lens

  Explores contradictions, regret minimisation, relational ethics

• 🎯 Strategic Lens

  Separates financial/relational/business domains, pressure-tests risk timelines

• ❤️ Emotional Lens

  Validates fear, love, guilt, surfaces emotional double binds

• 💡 Creative Lens

  Fractures the binary framing, proposes alternate pathways

• ⚖️ Contradiction Lens

  Exposes logical inconsistencies in motivations, frames, and stakes

• 🔗 Causal Lens

  Maps outcome chains, failure modes, and damage projections

Each output includes:

• 🧠 Reasoning Summary
• 🔍 Logic Tags
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