The Sun Tzu
Framework
Strategy, Deception & Victory
The Art of War is the most-quoted and least-applied strategy manual in history. Sun Tzu's core claim is counterintuitive: the best victory is the one in which no battle is fought. He prized information over force, position over confrontation, and patience over speed. This framework distils Sun Tzu's specific mental patterns into rules you can apply to modern competitive situations where force meets force has simply become too expensive to be the right move.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Sun Tzu'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 Sun Tzu, 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
We're preparing this framework now. In the meantime, browse our currently available flagships.
Inspired by the documented thinking of Sun Tzu. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.