Jacket Session — Skill | Infinite Game OS

Definition

The Jacket Session is a repeatable structure for AI-assisted advisory time. You define a set of lenses, jackets, each holding a distinct scope: marketing, operations, finance, knowledge, community, or any role your business actually needs. A session loads one lens, runs a universal flow from open to capture, and ends with a dated record you carry forward. Two disciplines stay live the whole way. The Three Solutions Rule, where the lens brings three options it genuinely believes in and a recommendation with its reasoning, never one pat answer and never a strawman. And Challenge and Illumination, where the lens pushes back on a gap even when you are enthusiastic, because a jacket that agrees with everything is just an echo. The flow holds steady across every jacket. The voice changes with the lens. The capture turns the conversation into something the next session can build on.

One flow, many voices

The session runs the same steps for every jacket: load the lens, open, pick up since-last continuity, work the focus, name the flywheel touches, capture decisions, seed experiments, read the three laws, surface open threads, route artifacts, close.

What changes is the lens. A finance jacket and a community jacket walk an identical structure and sound nothing alike. The structure is the holding. The voice is the value.

The two live disciplines

The Three Solutions Rule fires whenever the lens faces a fork. Three real options, a recommendation, the trade-off reasoning, and your decision. Strawmen dressed up to make one option win break the rule.

Challenge and Illumination keeps the lens honest. It stands for what your defined scope and your own principles support, even against your enthusiasm. The point of a separate lens is that it can see what you cannot from inside the work.

A capture that compounds

Every session closes with a dated capture: decisions and approvals, experiments running, open threads, and a short read on whether the work got smoother, easier or more productive this rotation.

The next session opens on that capture. Nothing has to be remembered. The structure holds the continuity so you can spend the hour thinking instead of reconstructing.

Use Cases

A standing seat with one lens

You run a weekly finance session or a monthly marketing session with the same jacket. Each picks up where the last left off, so the advice deepens instead of resetting.

Two lenses on one decision

A priced-offer question needs marketing and finance at once. Two-lens mode brings both, each presenting its own three options, and names the convergence or the divergence so you decide with the tension visible.

Bootstrapping a new advisor

The first session for any new jacket weights the calibration step: the lens reads the landscape, asks you its inquiry questions, and the scope refines from your answers. Subtle knowledge in your head becomes durable.

FAQ

What is a jacket?

A jacket is an advisory lens you name and define, a role your business needs filled. You give it a scope, a voice and a context file, and you run sessions with it the way you would meet with an advisor who only ever thinks about that one thing.

Do I need an AI assistant to run this?

The session is built to run with an AI assistant holding the lens, but the structure is yours. You can run the flow by hand. The value is the discipline, not the tool.

How is this different from just asking an AI for advice?

A single open question averages toward a safe answer. The session forces three real options, a recommendation with reasoning, and genuine pushback on your blind spots, then captures the result so the next session compounds on it.

When do I use two lenses instead of one?

When a decision genuinely needs two scopes at once and a full team meeting would be heavier than the moment calls for. Beyond two active lenses, run the Jacket Meeting instead.