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FAQ

How can you use Wild Max ideation without making unsupported claims?

Wild Max ideation is useful when you want the widest possible set of ideas, but it must be separated from publishable claims. Treat wild ideas as raw divergence, then sort them through an evidence gate before anything becomes strategy, copy or public advice.

June 17, 2026Last reviewed June 17, 20261 min readHow-to

Direct answer

Wild Max ideation is useful when you want the widest possible set of ideas, but it must be separated from publishable claims. Treat wild ideas as raw divergence, then sort them through an evidence gate before anything becomes strategy, copy or public advice.

How to use it

  • Generate freely in a clearly labelled ideation mode.
  • Sort ideas into green, amber and red evidence categories.
  • Keep speculative ideas away from public copy until proved or reframed.
  • Use red ideas as prompts for research, not as claims.
  • Only publish ideas that pass the proof and caveat check.

Example

An ideation session may suggest “AI will replace service discovery calls”. The evidence gate might convert that into a safer question: “Which parts of discovery can AI prepare, and which require human judgement?”

Caveats and limits

Wild Max is a creative mode, not a truth mode. Confusing the two creates confident nonsense.