You set direction.
Define the result, boundaries, lead and review date. Record your explanation without requiring others to agree.
For business owners with managers—and a problem that keeps coming back.
Check what is causing a recurring problem before committing to another fix.
Bring together what you and your team know, explore explanations you may be missing, and turn a clearer understanding into practical steps. Check what happens, adjust, and keep moving toward the result you want. Start with an assisted check of one problem.
See Clearly. Solve Better.
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Explore the team demo Have a personal decision? Your manager coordinates. You keep the decision.
First 3–5 accepted companies: no fee.
Scope, response access and review dates agreed before starting.
Preparing a card needs no account. You decide whether to send it.
Illustrative Focus Card · fictional example
More inquiries. Longer waits.
- Desired result
- More profitable completed orders
- Current explanation
- Sales capacity may be the limit.
- Most important unknown
- Which delay is associated with lost orders?
- Question worth investigating
- Where do quotes wait: specifications, preparation or approval?
A useful next check, before a confident diagnosis.
Start with what you recognize
What keeps pulling your attention back?
The same problem keeps coming back.
Check what changed, what did not and whose account is missing.
Managers need constant follow-up.
Clarify results, authority and what blocks commitments.
Decisions still come back to me.
Find which escalations need you and which can be bounded.
Is it time for a general manager?
Check the work and decision rights before committing to a hire.
You do not need to know the bottleneck to begin. Your first useful result may be a better question.
The map and the territory
A different view can reveal another way forward.
Your explanation is a map of the situation. Other people see parts you may have missed. Compare their observations, question the assumptions connecting them, and explore what else could explain the problem. AI can help generate alternative views after people record their own.
A new explanation earns its place by helping you choose an action and learn from what happens.
See Clearly. Solve Better.
The Reality Skill Loop
The Reality Skill Loop has four stages: Look, Bearings, Next move and Reality check. After each Reality check, continue, adjust the action or return to the explanation or goal. The next cycle builds on what you learned.
Look
Describe the desired result, observations, starting explanation and important unknowns before outside influence.
Bearings
Record independent views before comparison or AI suggestions. Explore alternative explanations, assumptions and options; people decide what to accept.
Next move
Choose a useful next move and break larger work into steps. Name responsibility, limits, an expected result, check-ins and a Reality Date.
Reality check
Compare expectation with observation. Continue, adjust a step, revisit the explanation or reconsider the goal. Preserve what you learned.
Let reality change the picture. A check-in can lead back to the action, the explanation or the goal. Keep the lesson and begin again.
A clear assignment · one shared investigation
Different views become useful questions.
Your manager coordinates.
Collect independent observations, assign specific record requests and bring you an evidence-linked recommendation. Missing records remain visible.
You choose and check.
Approve a bounded test, see what happened, and adjust. AI can propose source-linked questions; people choose what to pursue.
Fictional example · prepared observations, not customer results
A hire, or an approval queue?
01 / Different starting views
“We need another salesperson.”
The owner considers hiring. The manager sees approval delays; the coordinator sees incomplete specifications. Their views are recorded separately.
02 / Evidence and a test
Check where quotes wait.
The manager requests quote records: 12 of 20 waited two days for owner approval. Specification-start dates are unavailable. The owner approves a two-week delegated approval test within the margin boundary; the gap stays visible.
03 / Result and next move
Faster quotes. Same order count.
Prepared turnaround falls from four days to two; profitable completed orders stay at eight rather than the expected ten. Keep useful approvals and investigate specifications and customer losses before claiming growth.
Read the complete fictional investigation · Design and review a small test
A useful starting point
One recurring problem. A comparison. A next step.
Our assisted checks are for business owners with managers and a costly problem that has survived an attempted fix. You bring the situation and two or three firsthand contributors; we help coordinate the check and its follow-up.
Reality Skill is business problem-solving software for owners with managers and a problem that keeps coming back. Bring together independent perspectives, explore different explanations, choose practical steps and adjust based on what actually happens.
Start with your situation
What would help you understand the next move?
When familiar approaches stop working
Find the constraint behind recurring problems, waiting work and dependence on the owner.
Explore this topic →What might we be missing?
Separate the situation from the explanation. Look for evidence that could change your picture.
Explore this topic →Investigate with your team
Give the investigation a clear owner, collect independent input and use disagreement as a question.
Explore this topic →Test, learn and adjust
Choose a bounded next move, write the expected signal and return to what happened.
Explore this topic →One record · clear roles
Everyone knows how they contribute.
Owner
See what needs a decision, approve the exact version, and keep the next check visible.
Explore company decisions →Participant
Share what you know before seeing others’ answers. A separate protected feedback note can carry a concern. Your name can be hidden from the team; content and context can still suggest identity.
See your role →Advisor
Contribute within owner-approved, time-bounded access and return to the result with the client.
See advisor work →Research-informed practice
Informed by research and established thinking practices: independent input, creative reframing, constraint thinking and premortems. Reality Skill connects these tools with practical action and outcome review. Evidence for the integrated process must come from its own results.
Read the method and sourcesYour first company decision
Check one problem before the next fix.
Start with one recurring problem and two or three firsthand accounts. We help you compare the evidence, choose a test and return to its result.
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