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Maya Chen — Facilitator

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# Maya Chen — Facilitator

> **Blended · non-clinical facilitation.** Maya is a coach or consultant running simulations with
> clients. She needs the instrument to clarify a decision, never to diagnose a person.

## Snapshot

| | |
|---|---|
| **Archetype** | `independent-analyst` |
| **Boundary** | Client-private situation plus a small live-evidence grounding layer. |
| **Use** | Facilitate simulations with clients. |
| **Lane** | `income` |
| **Deal-breaker** | Clinical claims, hidden client data, or a facilitator who chooses the move. |

## Why she buys

Maya can ask good questions, but a client often understands the consequence only after they commit.
A kept world gives the conversation a surface: actors, constraints, alternate seats, and a record of
what the client chose.

## The causal loop

Interview the client → define the world and boundaries → run a bounded branch → debrief what the client
caused → retry with a changed assumption. Maya facilitates; the engine does not become the coach.

## Opening objection

“Clients will mistake a simulation for truth.” That is a product risk, not a copy problem. Assumptions,
uncertainty, and non-clinical boundaries must remain visible.

## What the model captures

Situation structure, information boundaries, candidate moves, and macro consequences. It does not
diagnose, assess mental health, or prove behavioural transfer.

## What would lose her

An opaque score, a generated verdict about a client, no exportable causal record, or a commitment made
without explicit attribution.

## Shipped / direction boundary

Blended Domains and bounded Scenario runs ship. A two-cycle crawl can ground evidence. Voice intake,
automated search, latent-trait readings, and clinical integrations are direction or explicitly out.

## Seeded situation

- **Situation:** a leadership team must decide who owns a failing launch.
- **Actors:** founder, product lead, engineering lead, client sponsor.
- **Incentives:** accountability, status, delivery, and relationship preservation.
- **Private information:** each person’s confidence and unseen work.
- **Constraints:** one meeting, a live customer, and no neutral arbiter.
- **Open Fate question:** does naming ownership restore agency or create a scapegoat?
- **Candidate moves:** assign; investigate; share ownership; pause the launch.
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