Prompting an AI tool for a first-pass strategy recommendation before a Present Forward: A Five-Phase Process for Problem-Focused Strategy sprint produces what Chandra calls a 'mock strategy': well-informed, well-articulated, and comprehensive — but too comprehensive and unfocused to serve as an actual strategy. It reads like every reasonable option laid out at once, with none of the forced narrowing a real strategy requires.
The intended use is as an input into the human-led down-selection and ranking process, not as the final deliverable. Every new idea is, in Chandra's words, 'an ugly baby that people just want to get rid of' — turning a comprehensive idea-set into one sharp, choiceful strategy stays a human judgment task that AI comprehensiveness doesn't substitute for: 'there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product.'
Relates to AI-Fit Evaluation for Strategy and the broader caution in Caution Against Abdicating Product Sense to AI Tools.