anti-benchmark

Research

Challenge industry best practices' hidden assumptions. Deconstruct benchmarks to reveal unexamined constraints.

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Anti-Benchmark

Challenge industry best practices' hidden assumptions.

State Ledger

Resource	Target	%
web-search	25	0%
web-research	10	0%
paper-overview	25	0%
paper-search	15	0%
paper-research	5	0%

HARD-GATE

Cannot exit strategy until ≥80% of each budget line is consumed OR yield targets are met with justification for remaining budget.

Available Tactics

Tactic	Role
assumption-enumeration	Surface assumptions hidden in benchmarks

Available SOPs

SOP	Role
benchmark-challenge	Identify and negate benchmark assumptions
sacred-cow-identification	Find unquestioned beliefs behind best practices
assumption-perturbation	Test what happens when benchmark assumptions fail
constructive-rebellion	Build alternatives that violate benchmarks constructively
destruction-synthesis	Synthesize anti-benchmark outputs

Execution Guidance

Identify benchmarks: Catalog the industry best practices and standards in the domain
Deconstruct: Use benchmark-challenge to expose hidden assumptions in each
Surface sacred cows: Use sacred-cow-identification for deeper unquestioned beliefs
Perturb: Use assumption-perturbation to test "what if this standard is wrong?"
Research alternatives: Search for domains that succeed WITHOUT these benchmarks
Build: Use constructive-rebellion to form solutions that violate conventions productively
Synthesize: Produce structured output via destruction-synthesis

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

Tactic	When to use
creative-ideation-assumption-enumeration	Surface, perturb, and prioritize assumptions by disruption potential. Orchestrates assumption surfacing → perturbation → sacred cow identification → prioritization.

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
benchmark-challenge	Identify and negate benchmark assumptions. Deconstruct best practices to reveal hidden constraints and open new spaces.
constructive-rebellion	Build constructive alternatives from destructive negation. Transform violated assumptions into viable innovation directions.
creative-ideation-assumption-perturbation	Perturb each assumption, observe system response. Systematic stress-testing of assumptions to reveal fragility and opportunity.
destruction-synthesis	Synthesize all assumption destruction outputs into structured destructive innovation report.
sacred-cow-identification	Find domain's unquestioned beliefs. Systematic identification of dogma that constrains innovation.