QUESTION INTEGRITY & FORMULATION ENGINE

Most bad decisions are not caused by bad answers.
They are caused by bad questions.

The Question Integrity & Formulation Engine exists to ensure that the question being asked is valid before analysis, advice, or action begins.

This system prevents false clarity by stopping people from confidently solving the wrong problem.

WHY THIS SYSTEM EXISTS

Modern tools — especially AI — are extremely good at answering questions.
They are not good at determining whether a question deserves an answer.

Common failure modes include:
• emotionally loaded questions
• premature questions asked under pressure
• questions that assume false constraints
• questions that bundle multiple problems into one
• questions that cannot be answered with available evidence
• questions that feel urgent but are structurally unresolvable

Without question integrity, answers create momentum in the wrong direction.

WHAT THIS SYSTEM DOES

The Question Integrity & Formulation Engine:

• detects malformed or invalid questions  
• separates emotional charge from decision logic  
• identifies whether a question is answerable now, later, or never  
• rewrites unclear questions into decision-grade form  
• blocks analysis when the question itself is broken  

The goal is not better thinking.
The goal is correct framing.

WHAT THIS SYSTEM IS NOT

• Not a brainstorming tool  
• Not a creativity exercise  
• Not philosophical debate  
• Not endless reframing  

It is a gate.
If the question fails, the system does not proceed.

WHEN THIS SYSTEM IS USED

This engine is activated when:

• analysis keeps looping without resolution  
• every answer feels unsatisfying  
• multiple “solutions” conflict  
• urgency increases but clarity does not  
• AI or advice sounds confident but feels wrong  

If the system feels stuck, the question is usually the reason.

OUTPUT

The output of this system is:

• a validated decision-grade question  
OR  
• a hard stop indicating the question should not be pursued  

This prevents wasted effort, false certainty, and downstream collapse.

FINAL NOTE

You cannot outthink a bad question.
You can only stop it.

This system exists to do exactly that.