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Surface answers restate what happens. Deep answers name something missing or structural. Walk one Why at a time, let the AI flag surface thinking, and land on a root cause you can actually act on.
Each answer can be scanned for surface-level thinking, and at the end the root cause gets condensed into one honest sentence. You get 12 free AI checks, resetting after 24 hours. Add your own free Groq API key for unlimited use (stored only in your browser, never on our servers).
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Name the surface symptom, not the explanation. The trace does the digging.
Start a symptom and it preloads the first Why answer, or open one as a completed trace to see the final format before you strike off on your own.
Every two weeks something we shipped quietly breaks in production, and nobody notices for days.
Why 1: We only notice when a customer complains or support escalates up the chain.
Root: Nobody owns what healthy in production means, so monitoring stays an afterthought instead of a requirement.
Every Monday someone spends the morning reverting a bug that slipped through Friday's release.
Why 1: The release is rushed on Friday afternoon so people can leave on time.
Root: There is no definition of done for a release, so quality ends up being whatever survived the weekend.
New engineers keep hitting the same setup wall because the onboarding docs are outdated.
Why 1: The docs were written once, years ago, and only touched when someone found spare time.
Root: Documentation has no owner and no living process, so it rots the moment the system changes.
Name what hurts. Surface answers are where everyone stops.
Each Why digs one layer under the last answer until the chain can't sink further.
The last Why becomes the fix target. Copy the trace or condense it with AI.