Sam Okafor — Participant

# Sam Okafor — Participant

> **Private · one consequential life moment.** Sam brings a salary conversation, a hard talk with a
> co-founder, or another decision that ordinary life lets him rehearse only once.

## Snapshot

| | |
|---|---|
| **Archetype** | `reflective-professional` |
| **Boundary** | Private; the situation is his, not a public research feed. |
| **Use** | Participant; two situations a month and one retry. |
| **Lane** | `personal` |
| **Deal-breaker** | Generic advice or a prediction dressed up as a reading. |

## Why he buys

Sam does not need another productivity system. He needs a safe place to name actors, incentives,
private information, constraints, and candidate moves before a real conversation closes the door.
The value is not confidence. It is seeing which consequence his own commitment makes more likely.

## The causal loop

He describes the moment → an operator turns it into a Domain → branches expose possible consequences →
Sam chooses a move → the world remembers → he asks “what did I cause?” → he retries as an experiment.

## Opening objection

“You cannot know what my manager or partner will do.” Correct. Meridians does not predict another
person. It prices pathways in a declared world and makes uncertainty inspectable.

## What the model captures

Actors, incentives, asymmetric information, constraints, and the causal spine of a chosen commitment.
It can preserve the scenario and its branch history. The interview and situation-to-world conversion
are currently desktop and manual through MCP.

## What would lose him

A confident forecast, an uneditable psychological verdict, a hidden commitment, or a polished scene
that does not let him identify what his move changed.

## Shipped / direction boundary

Scenario records and bounded branch runs ship. Voice intake is direction. Automated MWS and a
fully built VN reader are direction; Sam’s private reading must remain non-diagnostic and attributable.

## Seeded situation

- **Situation:** salary conversation after a role expanded without a matching title.
- **Actors:** Sam, manager, finance partner, absent sponsor.
- **Incentives:** retention, budget, status, fairness, and avoiding precedent.
- **Private information:** Sam’s outside option and manager’s hiring freeze.
- **Constraints:** one meeting, unequal authority, no public escalation yet.
- **Open Fate question:** does a specific ask create leverage or trigger defensive delay?
- **Candidate moves:** anchor a number; ask for scope first; disclose the outside option; defer with a written plan.

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