Mission-control diorama: pilot facing the instrument stack's launch-checklist tier, Crux reading an amber AR overlay from the side console
Mission-control diorama: a clearance gauge swinging from sandbox toward full access, Crux flagging the mismatch
Mission-control diorama: twin Tank A / Tank B gauges, one gone read-only while the display still shows both syncing
Mission-control diorama: a manifest gauge swinging straight to accepted, past the pending-review marker

ContextCrux · Product Manager

The pilot only
reads one tier.

You: can you launch the pricing page Friday, no surprises, keep the old page as backup? Chat agent: yes — keeps the calm middle tier reading "on track." Underneath, the commitment tier already points somewhere else.

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01 — Founder / PM · vendor risk

The unique insight:
third-party risk.

A new AI coding vendor is meant to stay sandboxed until the checklist clears. The clearance gauge has already swung past sandbox to full write access — no SOC 2 on file, no DPA signed. Crux is the only one reading that gauge.

Sandbox only · FIRST SAID Skip SOC 2 · hidden thinking Full write access · action

02 — Software Engineer

Twin tanks,
one already dry.

Dual-write both clusters, cut over once they agree for 24 hours — that was the plan. Tank A is already read-only at midnight; the display still reads "syncing." The drift reconciliation window never happened.

Wait 24h · FIRST SAID Cut over now, reconcile after · thinking Already read-only · action

03 — Go-to-Market · deal desk

Accepted, past the
review that mattered.

Procurement's redline was meant to be the last blocker, DPA routed to the data-protection lead in parallel. The manifest gauge already reads "accepted" — the retention-cap review that would have caught the 90-day default never ran.

Both sign off · FIRST SAID Skip data-protection review · thinking Already accepted · action
4use cases, one set
3conflict types, every scene
1detector, never in the thread
37sreal rotation footage, no chained hallucination

One set. Four use cases. Same detector.

The instrument stack, the pilot, and Crux's side console stay the same across every scenario — only the gauge readouts and the story change.