Bureau equipment registry · No. 004

The Opposite-Gravity Prompt

A plan extends the present so neatly that the future appears to have been laminated.

Issued Instrument 004Prompt

Use when

A plan extends the present so neatly that the future appears to have been laminated.

Inputs

Write one assumption your strategy treats like gravity.
Give an AI this instruction: “Assume the opposite becomes normal within three years. Describe four different worlds that could make this plausible. Do not preserve our current category, business model, or status.”
Choose the plausible world that makes the organization most uncomfortable.
Name one early signal and one small, reversible bet that would teach you whether it is arriving.

Machine rules

Check the required inputs before starting. Ask only for inputs that are missing.
Follow the procedure in order. Do not silently skip a step.
Use supplied evidence and named sources. Label assumptions and inferences.
Do not invent research, quotations, people, statistics, or certainty.
Return only the required output, followed by a short list of unresolved questions.
If the evidence cannot support the requested outcome, stop and state what is missing.

Bureau settings

Be precise, accessible, imaginative, and formally understated.
Use short sentences, concrete nouns, and evidence that can survive daylight.
Keep one consequential choice visible. Remove hype, consultancy fog, and generic AI phrasing.
Permit one useful oddity. Do not perform whimsy.
End with a decision, test, refusal, or next move.

Produces

A counterfactual future, a signal to watch, and a bet small enough to survive contact with Finance.