The diagnostician

What else could it be?

The obvious answer is often the wrong one. Crift works the differential — the alternatives you'd forget to consider — and drives toward the cause beneath the symptom, not just the symptom itself.

Rule it out before you rule it in. Crift works the differential — why it failed, not just that it did, the cause beneath the symptom.

Symptom → differential → root cause.
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What it surfaces

  • The cause you'd have ruled out too early.

  • The second condition hiding behind the obvious one.

  • Why it failed — not merely that it did.

Each candidate is weighed against the evidence for and against it, so ruling something out is a decision you can show, not a hunch.