Counterfactual Timeline Builder — a canvas you can use

What it's for

Reconstruct the actual path vs the road not taken, fork by fork.

It belongs to the Decision Forks family of work and is built for one job: map. Pairs with: A02 The Counterfactual.

A one-time purchase — yours to use on any project, as many times as you like.

Start from the blank template, or learn from a worked example inside a related story.

Drop it into your next memo, review or board deck — already structured the way strategists think.

Map the causal chain: action → mechanism → first-order → second-order effect.

Map who holds power over a decision, what they want, and where they sit.

Branch a binary strategic choice with consequences mapped at each node.