The Adam Curtis
Framework
Associative Montage & Political Synthesis
Adam Curtis produced work that defined or redefined their medium through sustained attention to craft. Adam Curtis's creative approach, captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask.
The associative montage & political synthesis framework distils Adam Curtis's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds.
Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Adam Curtis made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Adam Curtis's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Adam Curtis's thinking.
All political narratives are emotional constructs designed to manage mass psychology. The most powerful truths emerge not from linear argument but from unexpected connections that bypass rational defenses and hit the viewer's unconscious directly.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.
What is this story really trying to make you feel, and why does power need you to feel that way?
4 more questions in Adam Curtis's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Adam Curtis actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy: 2–3 sentences grounded in Adam Curtis's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models: each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics: the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions: five questions that sound like Adam Curtis, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do: the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt: drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example: the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →adam-curtis.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →adam-curtis-framework.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
What it does with a real question.
A founder is deciding whether to take a large but difficult client.
Don't take it on the terms offered. Every founder who signs a difficult client tells themselves a story first: this is the one that makes the company real. That story is doing the deciding, not the numbers. Notice what feeling it's built to produce. Relief. The promise of security arrives dressed as a business case, and it asks you to stop counting the hidden costs.
Think about what usually happens next. The client's demands start setting your roadmap. Your best people spend their weeks absorbing someone else's anxiety. The revenue that was supposed to buy freedom becomes the thing you can't afford to lose, so you say yes to the next unreasonable request, and the one after. A solution to fragility turns into a deeper fragility. The big client doesn't just pay you. It quietly becomes your management.
So the real question isn't whether you can deliver. It's what this client will make your company afraid of. If one contract can end you, you've been captured, however good the invoice looks.
Next move: before replying, work out the share of revenue this client would represent in year one, and write down the number at which you'd walk away. Then offer a bounded pilot: fixed scope, a defined exit, and a price that includes the difficulty. If they accept, you've learned they respect limits. If they refuse, you've learned what the full contract would have felt like, and it cost you nothing.
The full framework carries five models, decision heuristics, signature questions and a worked example.
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Adam Curtis. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.