review-heuristic-imperatives

Evaluating product decisions against values involves applying the heuristic-imperatives framework—Reduce Suffering, Increase Prosperity, Increase Understanding—to surface alignment, conflicts, and tradeoffs. This provides a structured assessment, per-imperative judgments, and actionable suggestions.

The heuristic-imperatives framework is a values-based decision-making lens structured around three goals: Reduce Suffering, Increase Prosperity, and Increase Understanding. It helps teams ensure significant refactors and design decisions align with core values before advancing.

Reviewing a design proposal for risk tradeoffs requires applying a values-based lens to the diff or plan, yielding a concise summary, a per-imperative assessment of alignment, and recommended next actions to guide safer decisions.

Use a values-based heuristic review when evaluating critical changes like significant refactors or design decisions. It helps teams surface alignment and conflicts across the three imperatives, guiding more empathetic and clearer decisions before development advances.

Yes, you can apply the heuristic-imperatives lens to implementation diffs, plans, or questions. It evaluates the proposed change across the three imperatives and outputs a structured review including tradeoffs and actionable suggestions.

The best way to surface tradeoffs is applying the heuristic-imperatives framework to the proposal. This yields a structured output with a summary, per-imperative judgments on alignment, identified tradeoffs, and actionable next-step suggestions.