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The Live Grounding Document
A shared screen, not a monologue — keeps a scattered or challenging conversation anchored to something concrete.
It keeps their energy anchored to something real — without ever feeling like a script. This isn’t a slide you present. It’s a document you think with, together.
When to use it
- A recurring conversation with someone who tends to derail into tangents or challenge
- When the last version of this meeting went off-script and you want structure that doesn’t feel tactical
- Before any conversation where you expect a hard question you can’t fully script for
What it gives you
- Something concrete to point to when the conversation drifts
- A visible structure that organizes thinking without dictating it
- A plan for what’s next that survives being interrupted
Altitude tip
Who are you communicating with?
Pick an audience to see how this tool changes for them.
How to run it — Before and during
- 01
List initiatives
Every thread this conversation could touch.
Before
- 02
Name current state
Where each one actually stands, plainly.
Before
- 03
Name target state
Where it needs to get to.
Before
- 04
Share and update live
Fill it in together as you talk — don’t just walk through it.
During
The trap
Treating it as a slide to present instead of a document to think with together. The value is in updating it live, in front of them — not walking through it top to bottom like a deck.