This prompt turns AI into a historian of the life you didn't live. You name the one fork you keep coming back to, and it rebuilds the other road from the conditions you faced at the time and the odds people in your spot tend to face, hidden costs included, then checks it against the version you carry in your head. You leave with an honest verdict on what you gave up and one piece of that other life you start this week.
Example user prompts
- "In 2017 I turned down an offer from a 12-person startup in Austin to stay at my bank job in Columbus. They got acquired in 2021. I'm 38 now with two kids and it still crosses my mind every time I see their logo. Was I wrong?"
- "I got into an art school in Chicago at 19 and went to a state school for accounting instead because my parents were paying. I'm 44, a controller at a manufacturing company, and I haven't painted in twenty years. Build me the life where I went."
- "Six years ago I almost moved to Lisbon with my partner at the time. We broke up and I stayed in Toronto. I'm 33 and doing fine, but I want to see what that version of me looks like and whether any of it is still on the table."