The 6D AI Thinking Method™

In plain English

Think it through with AI before you decide.

Digital Rapport®'s method for using AI as a thinking partner rather than an answer machine. You Define your context first, then make four moves: Discover the options, Dig into what is really going on, Doubt your own plan, and Do something with what you learned. Double-check runs throughout.

In plain words: context, expand, deepen, challenge, act, verify.

The point is the order. Most people start at "give me the answer", which is the one step the method leaves until last.

A real example

Someone asks AI "should I put my prices up?" and gets a confident, generic yes.

The same person working the method tells the AI what the business is, who the customers are and what the margins look like (Define), asks what options exist besides a straight rise (Discover), digs into why the margin is thin in the first place (Dig), asks the AI to argue the strongest case against the plan (Doubt), then turns the result into a decision and a next step (Do). Along the way they make the AI separate the facts from the things it assumed (Double-check).

Same tool. Very different answer, because the thinking was different.

Why it matters

A better prompt gets you a better-worded version of the same shallow answer. The gap is almost never the wording. It is that the model has no idea what your situation is, and that you asked it to conclude before either of you had thought.

The method is slower on the first pass and quicker after it, because you stop re-asking the same question in different words.