Then What Prompt

Traces the second-order consequences of a decision beyond the obvious win, before you commit to it.

A decision that looks clean at first glance often has a second layer no one checked: what it quietly forecloses later, who absorbs a cost that is not visible yet, and whether any part of it cannot be undone. This prompt runs the check in two passes, the immediate first-order effects, then the second-order effects weighted at 60% of the verdict, because that is the layer most decisions skip entirely.

If the decision has no real precedent to check it against, every second-order projection gets flagged as provisional rather than treated as settled analysis, and the verdict leans toward caution accordingly. Irreversible consequences get named explicitly instead of assumed away.

Built for the moment before you commit to a price change, a channel cut, a hire, or a launch that looks obviously right on the surface. You walk away with a proceed, safeguard, pause, or reject verdict, and the specific evidence that would move it.