How It Works
CRIT framework
A four-step structure for working with an AI chatbot as a thinking partner: give it Context about your situation, assign it a Role, let it Interview you with clarifying questions one at a time, and only then give it the Task. The interview step is the distinctive part — the AI asks the questions, which surfaces considerations the user would not have thought to include.
Origin
Introduced by Geoff Woods in his book The AI-Driven Leader (2024). Woods describes CRIT as Context, Role, Interview, Task in his own interviews and talks; some secondary summaries instead expand the acronym as challenging assumptions, reducing bias, improving strategy, and testing ideas, so the two expansions circulate side by side.