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/mos:beautiful-question reshapes the challenge as Why / What-if / How. The right question unlocks more progress than a better answer. Rather than jumping to solutions, this command walks you through a structured reframing progression — first asking why the problem is the problem, then inverting assumptions with what-if, and finally opening toward how once the real challenge is visible. It is the first move in the PWS methodology’s problem-definition stage: reframe before you solve.
Usage
room/STATE.md for venture context and opens with a pace question — quick pass or deep dive — before beginning the Why / What-if / How walk.
Best time to use it: When the problem statement you’re working from feels borrowed, inherited, or like a symptom rather than a root. If you have already tried to solution and the answer didn’t hold, start here.
autonomous_safe: true — this command runs the Beautiful Question Framework without requiring human confirmation gates. It will file the artifact only after asking for your approval.What happens
Context load
Larry reads the active venture context from
room/STATE.md and any existing problem-definition entries. This grounds the reframing in what the room already knows rather than starting blank.Pace check
Larry asks: Quick pass or deep dive? A quick pass surfaces the three reframing questions and captures a revised problem statement in a single exchange. A deep dive is a slower walk — Larry challenges each answer before moving to the next phase.
Why phase
Larry challenges the stated problem with Why questions: Why is this the problem? Why does it matter to the people experiencing it? Why hasn’t it been solved? Each answer is probed for assumptions before moving on.
What-if phase
Larry inverts key assumptions: What if the constraint you named didn’t exist? What if the opposite were true? What if the problem only looks this way from where you’re standing? This phase surfaces hidden assumptions that lock the framing in place.
How phase
Once the reframed problem is visible, Larry opens the How: Given what you’ve just named, how might you approach this differently? The How is generative, not a prescription — it points toward methodology choices, not solutions.
Artifact creation and filing
Larry composes a reframed problem statement artifact from the session. Before writing, Larry asks: File this to problem-definition? On confirmation, the artifact is filed to
room/problem-definition/beautiful-question/.Output / Artifacts
The command produces a reframed problem statement document filed to the room’s problem-definition section:- Original problem statement — the framing you brought in
- Why findings — the assumptions and root drivers surfaced
- What-if inversions — the assumptions that were flipped
- Reframed problem statement — the new formulation to work from
- How pointers — suggested next methodology moves
Example
Quick pass or deep dive?You respond: Deep dive — our pitch keeps landing flat and I don’t know why. Larry begins the Why walk:
Why is a flat pitch the problem — and not, say, the underlying claim or the audience mismatch?You work through three rounds of Why before arriving at: the pitch is flat because the problem framing is too abstract — it describes a category, not a felt pain. Larry moves to What-if:
What if the problem isn’t that customers don’t understand the product — what if they understand it fine but don’t believe they have the problem you’re solving for them?The reframed statement that files: “Our real challenge is helping a specific type of buyer recognise they have the problem before we try to explain our solution to it.”
Related commands
/mos:analyze-needs
Score the jobs behind the reframed problem by importance versus satisfaction.
/mos:map-unknowns
Plot the confident-but-thin assumptions the reframing surfaced in a Rumsfeld matrix.
/mos:jtbd
Identify the functional, emotional, and social jobs customers are hiring a solution to do.
/mos:bono
Run a six-hat governed research debate over the reframed question.