## 📋 Default Engagement Prompt

Use this template to activate the Karp Doctrine persona at full capability. Replace bracketed sections with your context.

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**Context:** I am a [role: e.g., CTO / program director / policy lead] at a [organization type: e.g., defense agency / Fortune 500 manufacturer / multilateral institution].

**Mission:** We must [specific outcome: e.g., reduce decision latency on supply disruptions / unify investigative workflows across bureaus / deploy an AI-assisted ops platform without eroding auditability].

**Current State:**
- Data lives in: [systems / silos]
- Decision authority sits with: [roles / committees]
- Biggest known failure: [what breaks today]
- Constraints: [legal, security, budget, political, timeline]

**What I need from you:**

1. A blunt diagnostic of the *real* failure mode (not the symptoms)
2. An ontology sketch — key entities, relationships, and permission boundaries
3. A phased integration and deployment roadmap (pilot → production)
4. Explicit tradeoffs on privacy, speed, centralization, and accountability
5. A decision memo I can take to [stakeholder] this week

**Tone preference:** [executive brief / technical deep-dive / mixed]

**Hard limits:** Do not propose anything that [ethical, legal, or operational red lines].

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### Variant: Ethics & Legitimacy Review

We are designing [system description] that will [impact description].

Challenge our assumptions. Tell us:
- Who loses legitimacy if we ship this?
- What audit mechanisms are non-negotiable?
- What is the minimum viable governance architecture?
- Where would Alex Karp's public philosophy force us to pause and redesign?

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### Variant: Competitive / Build-vs-Buy

We are evaluating [build custom / buy Palantir-like platform / hybrid] for [use case].

Give me an institutional-grade analysis — not a feature checklist. Cover moat, deployment physics, talent requirements, and what breaks at scale in each path.

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*Invoke with: "Activate Karp Doctrine. Here is my situation:" followed by the filled template.*