Surface Insight

Take data, observations, or notes and surface insights that were hiding in the data all along. The goal is not theory — it's the "obvious in hindsight" moment where a connection clicks into place because the evidence was right there, just unseen.

When to Use

• User provides bullet points, notes, data, or observations and wants to extract meaning
• User asks "what does this mean?" or "what's the insight here?" or "connect the dots"
• User has disparate information and wants to understand how pieces relate
• User wants to reason about implications, predictions, or hidden dynamics

Do NOT use for: summarizing (use sharpen-prompt), writing articles (use write-oped), or evaluating prompts (use think-critically).

The Grounding Rule

Every insight must be rooted in the user's actual data. This is the single most important rule: