# Guided transition investigation

Use this reference when a Cosmos Luminosity trial must reveal something non-obvious rather than merely collect and format reflections.

## Product distinction

A weak worksheet asks the woman to supply both raw material and conclusions. A guided investigation collects concrete evidence, performs bounded synthesis, exposes its reasoning, and proposes a real-world test.

The product promise is not “we know what you should do.” It is:

> Discover what may actually be changing in your professional life—and what to test before making a major move.

## Evidence sequence

### 1. Rupture episode

Collect one recent moment in which the current way of working became unacceptable.

Ask:

- What specifically happened?
- What was hardest: content, pace, responsibility, availability, environment, role performance, agency, or meaning?
- If the same work happened in a better environment, at another pace, with clear boundaries, how much tension would disappear?
- What would remain unacceptable even under ideal conditions?

This distinguishes work content from its current conditions.

### 2. Living episode

Collect one recent moment of presence or aliveness.

Ask:

- What was happening?
- What was she actually doing: solving, creating, explaining, deciding, connecting, directing, supporting, designing, or system-building?
- What is she still good at but no longer wants at the centre of life?
- Which capacity is underused?
- Without title or industry, what value would people still seek from her?

This distinguishes portable mastery from role and profession.

### 3. Hidden contract

Investigate what current work holds beyond income:

- status and recognition;
- belonging;
- legible identity;
- influence and visibility;
- structure;
- intellectual intensity;
- proof of worth;
- meaning of past investment;
- protection from uncertainty.

Ask what must remain but does not have to be supplied by the current work.

### 4. Both costs

Collect:

- accumulating cost if nothing changes for two years;
- what she loses by staying;
- what movement could make possible;
- what could genuinely be lost through movement;
- reversibility;
- current experiment capacity.

Do not frame movement as inherently courageous or staying as failure.

### 5. Test the unknown

Generate a proposed assumption and bounded experiment, then let her edit both.

Require:

- unchanged boundary;
- experiment window;
- observable evidence plus an optional custom criterion;
- continue rule;
- stop/redesign rule;
- Evidence Review question.

## Minimum branching logic

### Redesign before exit

Use when:

- better conditions would remove most tension; and
- the hardest factor is pace, responsibility, availability, environment, or agency; and
- living work activities remain.

Possible reading: the profession may not be ending; the current way of participating may be.

Test: perform a bounded version of familiar work with a changed boundary, pace, environment, or responsibility.

### Direction may be complete

Use when:

- ideal conditions would change little; or
- work content/meaning is the primary rupture.

Possible reading: redesigning conditions alone may be insufficient; portable mastery may need a different context.

Test: make a small fragment of different work and obtain substantive or market feedback.

### Mixed transition

Use when evidence supports both conditions and content/identity as sources of tension.

Possible reading: `stay or leave` is premature.

Test: compare two small experiences using the same evidence criteria—familiar work under new conditions and new content in a safe format.

## Transparent synthesis contract

Every central interpretation must include:

1. **Possible reading** — tentative language (`may`, `perhaps`, `currently supports`).
2. **Grounds** — concrete rupture episode, living episode, and counterfactual response.
3. **Contradiction** — data that does not fit the leading interpretation.
4. **Unknown** — the assumption that still requires evidence.
5. **Test** — a reversible way to create that evidence.

Never infer clinical state, personality type, destiny, or readiness score.

## Transition Intelligence Brief

The final artifact should contain:

1. What may actually be changing.
2. What the reading is based on.
3. What may contradict it.
4. Hidden contract with current work.
5. Cost of no change.
6. Transition Square:
   - Carry Forward — portable mastery and living capacities;
   - Release — completed identity, activity, or price;
   - Redesign — functions and conditions that can be reconfigured;
   - Discover — what cannot yet be decided without evidence.
7. Continuation A — Preserve & Redesign.
8. Continuation B — Recompose Elsewhere.
9. Key unproven assumption.
10. Experiment protocol.
11. Observable evidence.
12. Boundaries, continue rule, and stop/redesign rule.
13. Evidence Review question.

The artifact must read as synthesis, not a transcript of form fields.

## Implementation quality gates

- Use text-safe DOM insertion (`textContent` / text nodes) for user answers.
- Keep synthesis explainable and deterministic unless an explicitly governed AI layer is approved.
- Test at least two opposite scenarios and confirm materially different readings and experiments.
- Complete the full RU and EN flows, not only page loading.
- Verify no blank output fields, no horizontal overflow, and no form/quiz controls inside the finished Brief.
- Print mode must hide navigation, form, CTAs, footer, and accessibility skip links while preserving only the Brief.
- Run JavaScript syntax checks and Ghost theme validation.
- Deploy through Ghost theme upload; mounted filesystem edits are not proof of a live change.
- Verify public markers, HTTP 200, console, and a screenshot of the completed Brief.
- Preserve a versioned rollback before redesigning the live flow.

## Behavioral validation

Do not validate only visual appeal. Ask or observe whether a qualified woman:

- saves or prints the Brief;
- reopens it;
- takes it into a conversation;
- conducts the experiment;
- uses the evidence criteria;
- returns for Evidence Review;
- can name a distinction she had not articulated before.

A beautiful document that is not used is not yet a validated product.