Plankton.
MMXXV
№ 01
Plankton

Interrogate
everything.

Plankton is a structured system for interrogating documents, products, businesses, policies, processes and ideas before conclusions are reached.

§ 02
Compression

Every finished thing is a compression.

  • Documents.
  • Products.
  • Companies.
  • Processes.
  • Policies.
  • Images.
  • Ideas.

Everything arrives carrying conclusions.

Very little of the thinking survives.

§ 03
Reconstruction

Interrogation reconstructs what disappeared.

  • Assumptions.
  • Trade-offs.
  • Failures.
  • Alternatives.
  • Constraints.
  • Unknowns.
  • Context.
  • Contradictions.

These become visible again.

§ 04
Method

The method follows the problem.

There are no preferred tools.

Only useful tools.

People
AI
Search
Patents
Standards
Scientific literature
Archives
Documents
Data
Code
Simulation
Experiments
Models
Interviews
Photography
Video
Physical inspection
Financial records

The problem chooses the method.

Never the other way around.

§ 05
Pressure

Every interrogation needs different kinds of pressure.

  1. 01Domain expert
  2. 02First-principles thinker
  3. 03Systems thinker
  4. 04Sceptic
  5. 05Wild card
  6. 06Person who lives with the consequences

No single perspective is enough.

§ 06
Iteration

Interrogation is iterative.

Questions create evidence.

Evidence creates better questions.

Every answer produces another interrogation.

Understanding is built through repeated cycles.

Not certainty.

§ 07
Conclusion

Compression comes last.

Only after interrogation.

Only after evidence.

Only after challenge.

Only after reconstruction.

Only then should knowledge be compressed.

The conclusion is never the product.

The interrogation is.

§ 08
Output

Plankton produces interrogations.

Not reports.

Not opinions.

Not summaries.

Questions
Evidence
Assumptions
Alternatives
Contradictions
Sources
Reasoning
Conclusions

Searchable. Reusable. Challengeable. Expandable.

§ 09
Submit

Bring us something.

  • A document.
  • A process.
  • A policy.
  • A decision.
  • A strategy.
  • An image.
  • A claim.
  • An idea.

We'll interrogate it.