Bring any problem — business, system, life, anything. It descends through nine gates cut from a complete grammar of reality, and returns as a clear answer in plain words.
Every solution that has ever worked was, knowingly or not, an answer to the same seven questions. This engine asks them in the right order — nothing skipped, nothing extra.
Your goal, your current situation, and how you'll measure success. That is all the engine asks to begin.
Your problem is sorted, its causes are fixed, its laws are applied, its definition is made airtight — and even its ending is planned.
A solution anyone can read: what to do, where it lives, what it will not do, how it can fail, and what proves it worked.
No gate may be skipped. Most failed projects die at a gate nobody opened — and the first two are the ones nobody opens.
Every load-bearing fact is graded: you saw it, you worked it out, or you were told. "I remember" is not a source. And seeing has four joints — the thing, the instrument, your attention, and the conclusion you added. Most "I saw it" is "I saw something, and I concluded this."
Whoever must carry the plan needs the authority, the time and the appetite. Missing one and there is no driver, only a name in a box. A plan is sized to the person who has to run it — or routed to someone who can.
Four shapes, not two. It doesn't exist yet · it existed and ended · two kinds are being treated as one · it can never exist. The last one stops the work. The third is the most commonly misread.
Things, Properties, Actions, Categories, Identities, Bonds, Gaps — each sorted relative to a stated relation. Anything you can't sort is either not yet understood — or not real.
Foundation — the one real thing the solution lives in. Trigger — the conditions that set it off. Driver — who runs it, with what tool. No result exists without all three, and the driver can never be the foundation.
Like produces like — but finished things generate nothing further. Actions never directly cause actions; they chain only through stored state. One action, one thing — then it must end.
Borrow the shape of solved problems (similarities), build only the custom part (differences), then close every LEAK and cover every MISS.
Everything built is temporary, and how it dies depends on what it is. A thing comes apart at its joints. A standing quality dies from its bearer, its cause, or an opposite arriving. A process must end the moment it delivers.
The number moved — a real, measurable gain, now. And the work left behind a clearer picture of the domain than existed before.
The engine is not open-ended. Reality offers exactly nine kinds of things, twenty-four kinds of properties, and five kinds of actions. Nothing has a twenty-fifth kind of property — which is why the checklist can be complete.
A property always identifies its bearer — sound proves a medium, cognition proves a conscious agent. Properties are fingerprints of the things that carry them.
Answer in plain words. Your draft is saved in your browser as you type — nothing is uploaded.
Three fields are required. Leave the rest blank if you don't know — exposing blanks is part of the job.
You'll make an account next, so your problem and its answer are saved and you can come back to them. Or work through it yourself, offline, without an account.
Every problem is exactly one of these. If it's both, split it and run twice.
Use the inscription above as checklists. Two detectors: a category with one member is just a name; anything unsortable is not yet understood — or not real.
All three must exist BEFORE the result. A solution without a real foundation is not a solution.
Like produces like — a result of kind K needs causes of kind K. Actions never cause actions directly; they chain only through stored state. Each action ends when its result exists.
Five endings: its carrier dies · its trigger dies · its driver dies · an opposite arrives · its own success completes it. Guard the first four; design the fifth.