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Strengthen Your Strategy with Ask Patrick, Rhythm's AI Business Coach

Written by Admin | Fri, Jan 16, 2026 @ 03:01 PM
 

Strategy work is inherently ambiguous, iterative, and high-stakes. There are many potential paths, and many possible destinations ahead at any given time. Leaders often get stuck not because they lack ideas, but because they lack a thinking partner or coach to help think differently and validate their thinking.

Having a coach with you at all times isn’t realistic and traditional AI tools fall short because they don’t understand your strategy context. This is exactly the gap Rhythm Intelligence, AI for strategy execution—and Ask Patrick—was designed to fill.

What Makes Ask Patrick Different (and Why That Matters)

Ask Patrick is preloaded with strategic context from our published books, blogs, and thought leadership, and expertly prompted by our engineering team. You don’t start from a blank prompt—or spend time re-explaining the kind of help you need to work on your strategy. The coaching insights our team has gleaned over almost two decades power the suggestions. 

The result: more relevant, more strategic, more usable responses without any prompting expertise on your end. Ask Patrick doesn’t replace strategic thinking—it accelerates it.

You can use Ask Patrick to:

  • Stimulate new ideas
  • Pressure-test assumptions
  • Clarify language and intent
  • Explore alternative approaches
  • Surface risks you may not have considered

It excels at providing examples, rewriting for clarity, offering feedback, and challenging vague or overly safe thinking.

It’s not a replacement for your team’s judgement or your deep knowledge of your particular business and situation - you’ll always be the final decision maker. Just like with a human coach, you can’t outsource your strategy completely, but you can supercharge your ability to make the best decisions possible by using all the tools at your disposal.

Here are some examples of the kind of high-value strategic guidance that makes Ask Patrick the leading AI for business leaders.

Example 1: Brainstorming a BHAG

If you’re starting out defining your strategy, you might just need a few examples to jump start your process. Sometimes, concepts come to life and our brains make necessary connections when we can see the patterns in successful examples.

Prompt:

“Give me examples of inspiring BHAGs for medical device companies.”

What Ask Patrick Can Do:

  • Provide industry-relevant inspiration
  • Surface patterns (measurable impact, emotional pull, time horizon)

Clarifying Follow-Up You Might Ask:

  • “What makes these examples compelling to internal teams vs. external stakeholders?”
  • “Which elements could realistically stretch our organization?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example 2: Pressure-Testing Your Existing BHAG

In addition to providing examples to spark new ideas, you can use Ask Patrick to evaluate and improve the strategic work your team has done already.

Prompt:

“This is our documented BHAG: Become the world’s leading provider of innovative medical devices, improving the quality of 1 million lives by 2033. Is this a good BHAG or should we consider rewriting it?”

What Ask Patrick Can Do:

  • Assess clarity, ambition, specificity, and emotional resonance
  • Identify where language may be generic or overly safe

Clarifying Follow-Up:

  • “If we rewrote this to be more emotionally compelling, what might change?”
  • “How might this BHAG sound to a frontline employee?”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Example 3: Refining a Core Purpose (Head + Heart)

If you’ve ever tried to wrangle group think and craft a well-written statement that will resonate with all your stakeholders in a meeting, you know that word-smithing can be a never-ending rabbit hole. If you’ve gotten to the key idea and essence of your strategy but need help phrasing it, Ask Patrick can really shine and save you a lot of time.

Prompt:

“Help me refine our Core Purpose to speak to both the head and the heart.
Current Core Purpose: Making innovative, life-changing medical devices accessible to all who need them.

What Ask Patrick Can Do:

  • Preserve intent while elevating language
  • Offer multiple tonal directions (clinical vs. human, bold vs. grounded)

Clarifying Follow-Up:

  • “Which version would resonate more with engineers vs. clinicians?”
  • “What assumptions about our culture are embedded in this language?”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Example 4: From Core Customer to Brand Promise & Guarantee

Ask Patrick can also help you synthesize strategic elements and tie them together into a cohesive approach.

Prompt:

“Here is our Core Customer definition… Help me write a Brand Promise and guarantee that will resonate with this customer.”

What Ask Patrick Can Do:

  • Translate customer insight into a clear, memorable promise
  • Propose guarantees that signal confidence and differentiation

Advanced Follow-Up:

  • “Suggest a guarantee that goes beyond 100% satisfaction—without sounding gimmicky.”
  • “What operational commitments would this guarantee imply?”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Example 5: Validate Growth Plan Assumptions

A key aspect of choosing the right strategic winning moves is identifying the assumptions you are making about how the strategy will impact your bottom line, and then validating those assumptions with data. If this feels overwhelming, or you don’t have enough distance from your favorite idea to pick out the assumptions, Ask Patrick can really help.

Prompt:

“What assumptions about the impact on our business model are we making with this winning move - Introduce 3 new products to current specialties?”

What Ask Patrick Can Do:

  • Identify blind spots and hidden assumptions
  • Suggest ways to validate the impact of the strategy

Advanced Follow-Up:

  • “How should I gather data to determine if there’s real market demand?”
  • “What assumptions should we test before committing resources?”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Strategy, Strengthened

Hopefully, these examples are giving you ideas of how to use this powerful tool to strengthen your strategy. 

Here are a few times this tool can be most powerful:

  • During annual or quarterly planning
  • When refining strategy language before rollout
  • Ahead of leadership discussions
  • When a strategy “sounds right” but doesn’t feel right

Ask Patrick gives you high-quality thinking inputs, faster. You’re still accountable for choosing the right strategy, rallying the team and executing on it. But, you’ve got a powerful coach at your fingertips to save you cycles and help you make the right decisions. 

With Rhythm Intelligence, strategy work becomes clearer, sharper, and more confident.

But, that’s not all Ask Patrick can do. Beyond strategy, Ask Patrick can help you with things like intelligent summaries for your team’s weekly priorities and ideas for goals that hit Red status. It’s so much more than most chatbots; it’s a real strategy execution partner to help you achieve your goals and dreams.