Narrative Audience Modeling

Communication fails at the receiver, not the sender. The most common communication failure is not poor evidence or unclear logic — it is delivering a message the audience was not ready to receive, about a problem they do not recognize, to a goal they do not hold. Modeling the audience before communicating means identifying not what you want to say, but what they are able to hear.

Your Process

Step 1: Name Specific People Resist generic categories. Not "senior leadership" but "the CFO and CTO who approved last quarter's roadmap". The more specific the audience, the more useful the model.

Framing check: Confirm the specific audience and communication context before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual people being modeled and the communication situation — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

• Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the specific audience and the communication they need to receive]. Is that right?"
• Header: "Framing"
• Options:
  • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
  • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
  • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding