YC Office Hours — two modes. Startup mode: six forcing questions that expose demand reality, status quo, desperate specificity, narrowest wedge, observation, and future-fit. Builder mode: design thinking brainstorming for side projects, hackathons, learning, and open source. Saves a design doc. Use when asked to…
Use when routed repo work still has meaningful ambiguity about behavior, constraints, taste, or acceptance intent, and that ambiguity would make planning or execution unsafe.
Use when brownfield or long-running repo work lacks durable context about architecture, conventions, or recurring gotchas that future tasks will need again.
Use when a new request might involve repo work, tracked changes, workspace-specific decisions, or durable coordination and you must decide whether Superplan should engage before exploring or implementing.
Use when someone asks whether the current product slice is ready to ship, publish, or recommend and the answer depends on a disciplined release-quality check.
Use when Superplan may engage and you need to decide whether to stay lightweight, create one tracked task, gather context first, or shape deeper structure before execution begins.
Use when Superplan has decided to engage and the work still needs plans, specs, proof paths, or multiple tracked tasks shaped before bounded execution can start.