Reverse Brainstorming

---
name: reverse-brainstorming
description: How to make it worse? → reverse for solutions. Generate anti-solutions then invert to discover novel approaches.
execution: strategy
used-by: assumption-destruction
---

# Reverse Brainstorming

How to make it worse? → reverse for solutions.

## State Ledger

| Resource | Target | Current | % |
|----------|--------|---------|---|
| web-search | 15 | 0 | 0% |
| web-research | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-overview | 15 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-search | 10 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-research | 3 | 0 | 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 |
|--------|------|
| inversion-protocol | Reverse → extract → build constructive alternatives |

## Available SOPs

| SOP | Role |
|-----|------|
| reversal-generation | Generate "how to make it worse" statements |
| worst-case-design | Design deliberately bad solutions |
| inversion-extraction | Extract insights from reversed solutions |
| constructive-rebellion | Build positive solutions from negative insights |
| destruction-synthesis | Synthesize reverse brainstorming outputs |

## Execution Guidance

1. **Reframe**: Restate the problem as "How could we make this as bad as possible?"
2. **Generate anti-solutions**: Use reversal-generation to produce failure modes
3. **Elaborate worst cases**: Use worst-case-design to flesh out the worst approaches
4. **Invert**: Use inversion-extraction to flip each anti-solution into insight
5. **Build**: Use constructive-rebellion to form viable solutions from inversions
6. **Synthesize**: Produce structured output via destruction-synthesis