Idea Autopsy
What this helps you do
Idea Autopsy is distinguished by a respectful illuminated anatomy table that preserves the living whole beside the parts.
What you would do
The proposed workflow would establish the starting idea, intended outcome, audience, boundaries, constraints, and known unknowns, then collect relevant notes, evidence, alternatives, assumptions, preferences, and dependencies, then transform through the signature workflow — make a respectful illuminated anatomy table that preserves the living whole beside the parts the organizing experience across every stage. Earlier versions and open questions would remain reviewable.
What you would leave with
The proposed result of Idea Autopsy is an editable decision record for dissect a concept into purpose, mechanism, experience, audience, outcome, evidence, and unresolved assumptions without stripping away its feeling, with any unresolved limits kept outside the promise.
- The idea, question, possibility, or concept being worked on
- Your intended outcome and definition of useful progress
- Relevant people or audiences, context, constraints, resources, and dependencies
What you would start with
The proposed starting point is the idea, question, possibility, or fragment being examined, plus whatever context is already known. Unknowns can remain explicitly unresolved.
- Establish the starting idea, intended outcome, audience, boundaries, constraints, and known unknowns
- Collect relevant notes, evidence, alternatives, assumptions, preferences, and dependencies
- Transform through the signature workflow — make a respectful illuminated anatomy table that preserves the living whole beside the parts the organizing experience across every stage
- Examine at least two scenarios, counterpositions, or alternative interpretations
How the experience unfolds
The organizing device is a respectful illuminated anatomy table that preserves the living whole beside the parts. The workflow would preserve source context, compare alternatives, and keep uncertainty visible as the idea changes.
- specific orientation and example project
- Editable user-defined criteria, labels, and weights where relevant
- Visible source, evidence, assumption, inference, and unknown states
- Comparison, undo or restore, and reasoning trace
- Versioned save, review, and recovery appropriate to class
What is included
The concept scope calls for the prompts, comparison tools, version history, and editable records needed to reach an editable decision record for dissect a concept into purpose, mechanism, experience, audience, outcome, evidence, and unresolved assumptions without stripping away its feeling. Those elements remain proposed until a release is actually built.
A realistic example
A representative use case would begin with an incomplete idea, apply a respectful illuminated anatomy table that preserves the living whole beside the parts, compare at least two interpretations, and end with an editable decision record for dissect a concept into purpose, mechanism, experience, audience, outcome, evidence, and unresolved assumptions without stripping away its feeling.
Who it is designed for
Use Idea Autopsy as a concept fit check for people who have an idea but cannot yet state what it means, what belongs, what does not, or which framing is most useful when the practical need is to dissect a concept into purpose, mechanism, experience, audience, outcome, evidence, and unresolved assumptions without stripping away its feeling.
What makes it different
Idea Autopsy uses a respectful illuminated anatomy table that preserves the living whole beside the parts as its core interaction or organizing rule, giving it a different route from neighboring concepts in the same family.
Why it is an Asteroid
Idea Autopsy is classified as an Asteroid because of its intended scope: connected idea workflow. This depth label does not indicate release status, quality, or priority.
Important limits or uncertainties
Idea Autopsy 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.
Demo and Full plans
If ICU later develops Idea Autopsy, 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.
About this concept artwork
The illustration is concept artwork, not a product screenshot. It uses a workshop of mirrors, presses, frames, thresholds, and movable walls to represent the proposed activity or experience.