Most teams fall in love with a solution before they understand the problem. This workbook walks you through both diamonds, so you find the right problem first, then the right way to solve it. Your work saves automatically on this device.
This tool is a mirror. What you get out of it depends entirely on what you put in. Fill it in at the surface and you get surface answers. Dig, and you get something you can actually decide on. That is not a limitation of the tool. It is exactly how AI works too: feed it shallow input and it returns confident, shallow output. The thinking is still yours. The tool only gives it structure.
Each diamond opens wide to explore (diverge), then narrows to a decision (converge). The first diamond is about the problem. The second is about the solution. Most teams skip straight to the second.
The problem you can see is the tip. The one worth solving sits below the waterline. Start with the visible problem, then ask "why" five times. Each answer takes you one layer deeper.
With the real problem clear, open up again. Generate many possible directions before you pick one. The first ideas are the obvious ones. The good ones usually come after.
Everything you wrote, pulled into one clean page. Save it as a PDF, share it with your team, or use it as the starting point for a real validation.
AI should not make this decision for you. It is good at one thing here: challenging your thinking and exposing blind spots. Copy the prompt below into ChatGPT, Claude or any model. It already contains everything you filled in.
This blueprint gets you thinking the right way. When the decision is too big to get wrong, Anté runs the full Decision Sprint: real interviews, three evidence-based concepts, one defensible direction.