Leverage Lens

How Leverage Lens works

Most hard decisions are hard because you are looking at them from a single angle — usually the one that worries you most. Leverage Lens runs your situation through ten different strategic lenses at once, the way a sharp advisor would pressure-test a plan, then compresses what they surface into one clear brief. You describe the situation and the goal; it hands back the blind spots, the fastest path, the honest reasons it could fail, and the single next action worth taking.

Ten angles, one brief

Each lens asks a different question so nothing important stays hidden: Blind spots (what you are not seeing), Fastest path (the shortest route to the goal), Why it fails (an honest pre-mortem), 80/20 (the fifth of the effort that drives most of the result), Plan B (your fallback if the main plan stalls), Hidden wins (upside you have not counted), Simplify (what to cut), Patterns (where this has played out before), Unfair advantage (what only you can do here), and Next action (the one move to make now).

What you get back

• A short read on each of the ten lenses, tailored to your specific situation.
• The blind spots and failure modes you are most likely to be missing.
• The 80/20 — where your effort actually moves the outcome.
• Your unfair advantage in this particular decision, named plainly.
• One clear next action, so the brief ends in a move, not more analysis.

A worked example

Say you are deciding whether to leave a stable job to go full-time on a side project. A single-angle view fixates on the salary you would give up. Leverage Lens widens it: the fastest path lens might suggest testing the project to a revenue milestone before quitting; why it fails flags running out of runway before it earns; unfair advantage points at the audience you have already built; and next action lands on one concrete step — validate demand with a paid pre-order this month — instead of an all-or-nothing leap. Same decision, far clearer.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of decisions does it help with?

Anything with real trade-offs — a business move, a product bet, a career change, a big purchase, or a personal goal. You describe the situation and goal, and the ten lenses adapt to it.

Should I just do whatever the brief says?

No. Treat it as a structured second opinion that surfaces angles you might miss. You know your full context; use the brief to decide with clearer eyes, then make the call yourself.

How is this different from just asking an AI for advice?

A single answer tends to give you one confident take. Leverage Lens forces ten distinct angles — including uncomfortable ones like the pre-mortem — so you see the trade-offs a one-shot answer glosses over.

Is it free?

Yes — running the ten lenses is free. If you hit the daily limit, paste your own Anthropic API key to keep going.