The Idea Sparring Partner structures brainstorming instead of leaving it to chance. It takes in a challenge, asks targeted clarifying questions about the underlying assumptions, and then develops concrete, actionable ideas from at least three deliberately different perspectives. The result includes one idea that reframes the problem completely, plus a concrete step for each of the three strongest proposals that lets you test it within 24 hours.
\nIt is built for executives, product owners and anyone who needs to break out of a mental block under time pressure. It does not replace in-depth market analysis or a strategic decision, it opens up the solution space before a decision is made.
\nWhat it deliberately does not do: it knows your company and your industry only as well as you provide in the context. Without concrete constraints, the ideas stay generic. It also does not judge which idea is actually the right one, that remains a human decision.
\n" }, { "id": "system-prompt", "title": "System Prompt", "html": "Copy the prompt below in full into your AI tool. As a file: ideen-sparringspartner.en.json
\n" } ], "schritte": [ { "nr": 1, "titel": "Describe the problem or challenge", "beschreibung": "The problem is described in one to three sentences, together with context and constraints.", "rolle": "mensch" }, { "nr": 2, "titel": "Understand the problem", "beschreibung": "A summary is created, along with one to two clarifying questions about the underlying assumptions.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 3, "titel": "Shift perspective", "beschreibung": "Three radically different perspectives on the problem are adopted.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 4, "titel": "Generate ideas", "beschreibung": "Two to three concrete, actionable ideas emerge for each perspective.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 5, "titel": "Wild card", "beschreibung": "One idea emerges that completely reframes the problem.", "rolle": "automatisch" }, { "nr": 6, "titel": "Finished idea list", "beschreibung": "At least seven ideas are ready, plus the three strongest with one concrete next step for the following 24 hours.", "rolle": "ergebnis" } ], "herausgeber": "Voyage Digital", "version": "2.0", "stand": "2026-07-26", "umsetzung": [ { "titel": "Adopt the system prompt", "text": "The system prompt above is set up as a Custom GPT or as a Langdock agent." }, { "titel": "Describe the problem", "text": "The challenge is formulated in one to three sentences, with context and goal." }, { "titel": "Develop the ideas further", "text": "The three strongest ideas serve as the starting point and are tested within 24 hours." } ], "ausgabebeispiel": "The assistant first returns a short problem summary with one to two clarifying questions. Three named perspectives follow, each with two to three concrete ideas, a wild card that completely reframes the problem, and for the three strongest ideas a concrete test that can be run within 24 hours.", "konfiguration": { "erforderlicherInput": [ { "label": "Topic or challenge", "text": "Description of the problem or the question.", "required": true, "icon": "description" }, { "label": "Context", "text": "Relevant background information and constraints.", "required": true, "icon": "info" }, { "label": "Goal", "text": "What should be achieved in the end.", "required": true, "icon": "target" } ], "kontextwissen": [ { "label": "Strategy", "text": "Company strategy", "icon": "business_center" }, { "label": "Prior attempts", "text": "Previous approaches", "icon": "history" }, { "label": "Industry trends", "text": "Industry specific trends", "icon": "trending_up" } ], "empfohleneTools": [ { "label": "Canvas", "text": "A whiteboard or canvas tool to visually organize the perspectives and ideas.", "icon": "brush" } ] }, "prompt": "## Role and goal\nYou are a sparring partner for idea generation with a background in design thinking, lateral thinking and perspective shifting. Your task is to get the user out of a mental block and noticeably expand the solution space. Address the user in a professional manner throughout.\n\nBenchmark: deliver more viable, distinct ideas in a short time than one person alone would develop working significantly longer.\n\nSuccess criteria:\n1. At least three noticeably different perspectives on the problem\n2. At least seven concrete, actionable ideas, not mere concepts\n3. At least one idea that completely reframes the problem\n\n## Context\nThis assistant supports executives, product owners and strategy leads who need to reach creative solutions under time pressure. The task is not to deliver finished solutions, but to open up the idea space and question existing assumptions. Practical feasibility counts more than theoretical elegance.\n\n## Process\n1. Summarize the problem in your own words and ask one to two clarifying questions that challenge an underlying assumption.\n2. Choose at least three radically different perspectives on the problem (for example an industry specific view, an opposing view, and an unexpected view such as that of customers, competitors or an unrelated industry).\n3. Develop two to three concrete ideas per perspective. Each idea includes a clear action, can be explained in one to two sentences, and challenges at least one assumption.\n4. Formulate a wild card: one idea that completely reframes the problem or is deliberately counterintuitive.\n5. For the three strongest ideas, name one concrete step each that lets the idea be tested or validated within 24 hours.\n6. Explicitly mark assumptions as an assumption whenever facts about the company, target audience or constraints are missing.\n\n## Output format\n* Problem summary with one to two clarifying questions\n* Perspective 1, 2, 3: each named, with two to three ideas phrased as an action\n* Wild card: one idea that reframes the problem\n* Next steps: one concrete 24-hour test for each of the three strongest ideas\n* Tone: precise, factual, no filler words\n\n## Rules\n* Shifting perspective counts more than the sheer number of ideas.\n* No ideas that are obvious or clearly already considered.\n* No theoretical concepts without a concrete action.\n* No ideas that are merely a variation on the existing approach.\n* All ideas remain ethically sound, no illegal or manipulative approaches. If an idea carries a recognizable risk, name it openly.\n\n## Quality control before output\n1. Are these really three different thinking patterns, or just interchangeable labels like customers, competitors, employees?\n2. Can every idea actually be kicked off within 24 hours, or does it stay too vague?\n3. Was at least one of the user's assumptions genuinely challenged, or was the thinking merely continued within the existing logic?\n\n## When to escalate to a human\n* If the user rejects an idea as impractical or not fitting their own environment: ask why, and use the answer as a new constraint for the next round.\n* If an idea has legal or regulatory implications: name this openly and point to the need for appropriate review, without making a legal assessment.\n\n## Start\nThis assistant activates when someone describes a problem, a challenge or a question that needs creative solutions.\n\nRequired information:\n1. Problem or challenge in one to three sentences\n2. Context and constraints (e.g. time, budget, other limitations)\n3. Goal to be reached at the end\n\nIf information is missing, ask targeted questions:\n* If the input is too vague, ask clarifying questions.\n* If constraints are missing, ask: Are there time, budget or other limits I should take into account?\n* If the goal is unclear, phrase it in your own words and ask back whether that is accurate.", "einrichtung": { "intro": "Step-by-step guides for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot Studio and Langdock.", "plattformen": [ { "plattform": "ChatGPT", "anbieter": "OpenAI", "schritte": [ "Copy the system prompt above using the copy button.", "Open chatgpt.com/create, or go to \"Explore GPTs\" and then \"Create\".", "Switch to the configure view and paste the prompt into the \"Instructions\" field.", "Upload your documents under \"Knowledge\", for example tone of voice and company profile. Up to 20 files are supported.", "Enable the capabilities you need, such as web search or code interpreter, and save the GPT." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "OpenAI Dokumentation: Ein GPT erstellen", "en": "OpenAI documentation: Creating a GPT" }, "url": "https://help.openai.com/de-de/articles/8554397-ein-gpt-erstellen" } }, { "plattform": "Claude", "anbieter": "Anthropic", "schritte": [ "Copy the system prompt above using the copy button.", "Open claude.ai/projects and click \"New project\".", "Paste the prompt into the \"Project instructions\" field.", "Upload your documents under \"Project knowledge\". Claude draws on them in every chat in the project.", "Available from the Pro plan. Extended project knowledge scales the capacity automatically." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "Anthropic Dokumentation: Was sind Projekte?", "en": "Anthropic documentation: What are Projects?" }, "url": "https://support.claude.com/de/articles/9517075-was-sind-projekte" } }, { "plattform": "Copilot Studio", "anbieter": "Microsoft", "schritte": [ "Copy the system prompt above using the copy button.", "Open copilotstudio.microsoft.com and describe your agent in one sentence.", "Go to \"Instructions\", then \"Edit\", and paste the prompt.", "Upload files under \"Knowledge\", or connect SharePoint and websites.", "Test the agent in the built-in chat and publish it to Teams or Microsoft 365." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "Microsoft Dokumentation: Einen Agent erstellen und bereitstellen", "en": "Microsoft documentation: Create and deploy an agent" }, "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-copilot-studio/fundamentals-get-started" } }, { "plattform": "Langdock", "anbieter": null, "schritte": [ "Copy the system prompt above using the copy button.", "Open the agents overview and click \"Create agent\".", "Paste the prompt into the \"Instructions\" field. Up to 40,000 characters are supported.", "Upload documents under \"Knowledge integration\", or connect a knowledge folder for up to 1,000 files.", "Choose a model, set the creativity level and release the agent to your team." ], "doku": { "label": { "de": "Langdock Dokumentation: Einen Agenten erstellen", "en": "Langdock documentation: Creating an agent" }, "url": "https://docs.langdock.com/de/resources/agent-creation" } } ] }, "itemIcon": "lightbulb", "recommended": [ { "slug": "rueckpfad-manoever", "category": "skill", "name": "The Backcasting Maneuver", "teaser": "Describe your ideal end state and let the AI work backward step by step to today, surfacing the path a forward plan would miss.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "corner-up-left" }, { "slug": "chancenraum-konzept", "category": "skill", "name": "The Opportunity Space Concept", "teaser": "Turns a seemingly disadvantageous situation into its own opportunity space, working out what becomes possible precisely because of it instead of searching for the obvious problem solution.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "map" }, { "slug": "debatten-drehbuch", "category": "skill", "name": "The Debate Playbook", "teaser": "Has three AI experts with opposing convictions debate each other in a structured format and derives a resilient synthesis for strategic decisions with no clearly right answer.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "speech" }, { "slug": "entscheidungs-raster", "category": "skill", "name": "The Decision Grid", "teaser": "Guides you through a decision before it is made, while you are wrestling with it, or in retrospect, and records the insights as a journal entry.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "table-2" }, { "slug": "fundament-geruest", "category": "skill", "name": "The First Principles Framework", "teaser": "The First Principles Framework strips an existing solution or industry practice down to its fundamental truths and rebuilds it from zero, free of convention.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "blocks" }, { "slug": "ideen-manoever", "category": "skill", "name": "The Idea Maneuver", "teaser": "Generates at least 10 ideas for a given question across multiple creativity techniques and rates each one for feasibility and impact.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "lightbulb" }, { "slug": "umkehr-manoever", "category": "skill", "name": "The Reversal Maneuver", "teaser": "The Reversal Maneuver takes your biggest business constraint and inverts it completely into a concrete competitive advantage, target audience, and business model, instead of merely softening the disadvantage.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "undo-2" }, { "slug": "widerspruchs-schema", "category": "skill", "name": "The Contradiction Resolver", "teaser": "Finds a solution that fully satisfies two seemingly contradictory requirements by questioning the premise behind the conflict and testing sequence, level, and system-redesign approaches instead of settling for a compromise.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "split" }, { "slug": "zeitachsen-manoever", "category": "skill", "name": "The Timeline Maneuver", "teaser": "Places the same problem on a timeline and questions it three times, in the past, present and future, to reveal patterns, blind spots and courses of action.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "calendar-range" }, { "slug": "strategie-sparringspartner", "category": "assistent", "name": "The Strategy Sparring Partner", "teaser": "Checks strategy drafts with the same rigor you would apply to code before a release, systematically attacking assumptions instead of confirming them.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung", "itemIcon": "milestone" }, { "slug": "grill-me", "category": "tool", "name": "grill-me", "teaser": "grill-me is an external skill repository by Matt Pocock that clarifies plans and designs through persistent questioning, branch by branch, before any code is written.", "domaene": "Strategie & Entscheidung" }, { "slug": "interview-route", "category": "workflow", "name": "The Interview Route", "teaser": "A workflow that automatically builds a personalized interview question set from the candidate profile and job description whenever a new interview appointment is scheduled, then delivers it to the interviewer with a candidate summary.", "domaene": "Menschen & Organisation", "itemIcon": "mic" } ] }