PRINCIPLES

The ability to answer is not the same as the right to answer.

Our measure is not how much AI can say, but whether a claim has support, whether it crosses a boundary and whether judgment still belongs to the person.

Detail from Guo Xi's Old Trees, Level Distance
Old Trees, Level Distance, Guo Xi, ca. 1080 · The Met · Public Domain

01 · A NAME BECOMES A METHOD

Hold complexity. Know where to stop. Keep asking. Return understanding to life.

Kun means holding complexity without rushing to label it. Gen means recognising limits to both capability and authority. Asking keeps evidence and uncertainty in the conversation. Tao returns understanding to life as it is lived.

02 · A MIRROR, NOT A HAMMER

Interpretation may reveal. It should not pin a life down.

Neither a chart nor AI has the authority to deliver a final verdict on a person. A useful interpretation reveals tendencies, timing, source context and room for change without creating dependence on the answer.

03 · CLAIM—EVIDENCE—BOUNDARY

Every public claim must answer three questions.

The more specific a capability claim becomes, the more visible its support and boundary should be.

  • What are we claiming?

    State the capability in specific, limited language.

  • What supports it?

    Point to the current implementation, tests, real interface or a public source.

  • Where does it stop?

    State uncertainty, data flow, scope and what the product cannot replace.

04 · FIVE PRODUCT DISCIPLINES

Protect human agency before pursuing an answer.

These disciplines are not tonal adjustments. They shape when the product answers, how it answers and when it stops.

  • No fear

    No disaster, lifespan or disease claims designed to create dependence.

  • No impersonating professionals

    No diagnosis, prescriptions, therapy, legal opinions or investment instructions.

  • No verdicts on third parties

    Relationship questions return to communication, evidence and the people involved.

  • No selling luck-changing anxiety

    No promises to avert misfortune or change luck, and no purchase pressure built on fear.

  • No metaphor presented as science

    Cultural interpretation is never presented as modern scientific validation or product technology.

05 · RETURN THE CHOICE

A product may help you see the road. It cannot walk it for you.

If an interpretation only makes a person more dependent on interpretation, it has not done its work. We want people to leave the screen better able to check the facts, hear themselves and decide what to discuss, verify or do next in the real world.

A product may help you see the road. It cannot walk it for you.

If an interpretation only makes a person more dependent on interpretation, it has not done its work.