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In Regret Compass, the defining rule is a compass that shows multiple future selves rather than predicting the future.
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Regret Compass is a focused Idea Universe Future Concept built to compare choices through plausible future regret, reversibility, learning value, and opportunity cost, with a compass that shows multiple future selves rather than predicting the future as its defining mechanism.
Regret Compass is designed around people with competing ideas, actions, milestones, or commitments who need transparent tradeoffs and a direct next step. The concept stays focused on this job: compare choices through plausible future regret, reversibility, learning value, and opportunity cost.
Regret Compass is designed to end in an editable Regret Compass Result Card for comparing choices through plausible future regret, reversibility, learning value, and opportunity cost, not an unsupported guarantee of feasibility, demand, or success.
The defining idea in Regret Compass is a compass that shows multiple future selves rather than predicting the future, which changes how the user works or plays instead of merely changing the theme.
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IU-G06-S01-ST02IU-G06-S01/concepts/iu-g06-s01-st02-regret-compass/Regret Compass
In Regret Compass, the defining rule is a compass that shows multiple future selves rather than predicting the future.
The proposed workflow would explain the single decision or discovery Regret Compass helps you make, then add the idea, context, constraints, intended people, current evidence, and your own success criteria, then use a compass that shows multiple future selves rather than predicting the future as the central interaction. Earlier versions and open questions would remain reviewable.
Regret Compass is designed to end in an editable Regret Compass Result Card for comparing choices through plausible future regret, reversibility, learning value, and opportunity cost, not an unsupported guarantee of feasibility, demand, or success.
The proposed starting point is the idea, question, possibility, or fragment being examined, plus whatever context is already known. Unknowns can remain explicitly unresolved.
The organizing device is a compass that shows multiple future selves rather than predicting the future. The workflow would preserve source context, compare alternatives, and keep uncertainty visible as the idea changes.
The concept scope calls for the prompts, comparison tools, version history, and editable records needed to reach an editable Regret Compass Result Card for comparing choices through plausible future regret, reversibility, learning value, and opportunity cost. Those elements remain proposed until a release is actually built.
A representative use case would begin with an incomplete idea, apply a compass that shows multiple future selves rather than predicting the future, compare at least two interpretations, and end with an editable Regret Compass Result Card for comparing choices through plausible future regret, reversibility, learning value, and opportunity cost.
Regret Compass is designed around people with competing ideas, actions, milestones, or commitments who need transparent tradeoffs and a direct next step. The concept stays focused on this job: compare choices through plausible future regret, reversibility, learning value, and opportunity cost.
The defining idea in Regret Compass is a compass that shows multiple future selves rather than predicting the future, which changes how the user works or plays instead of merely changing the theme.
Regret Compass is classified as a Star because of its intended scope: focused idea tool. This depth label does not indicate release status, quality, or priority.
Regret Compass stays within its stated scope. The workflow can clarify and test an idea, but it cannot prove originality, feasibility, legality, safety, demand, or commercial success. This is a Future Concept, so no release, schedule, availability, or outcome is guaranteed.
If ICU later develops Regret Compass, a representative Demo could be defined and tested before any broader release. If a Full version were later approved, it could extend the same method with repeat-use, review, history, recovery, and export depth appropriate to the class. No Demo, Preview, or Full release is scheduled or promised by this catalog entry.
The illustration is concept artwork, not a product screenshot. It uses a branching navigation hall of tables, compasses, rivers, seasons, and visible decision trails to represent the proposed activity or experience.
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