Change the frame.
An idea becomes a relationship with conditions.
An invention practice by episMOS
Possibility
lives between
things.
A familiar problem. An unlikely encounter.
A relationship you hadn’t considered.
Follow it far enough to find out what it can do.
01—03Ordinary pieces.
Extraordinary questions.
Follow the thread
Extraordinary questions.
01 / A different starting point
The unexpected,
made testable.
innoMOS helps you explore what a problem could become when you change its frame, borrow a relationship, or bring unfamiliar things together.
Then comes the useful part: name the function, expose the conditions, and find a test that could prove you wrong.
Meet the practiceUnexpected inputsExplicit relationshipsSomething you can try
02 / The possibility lab
A connection should
change something.
Try the same question with different evidence.
Then break the connection and watch what becomes knowable.
A disappearing moment Fixed local example
Open in the morning.
Open again later.
What happened between?
The endpoints look identical. Could you still know what happened in between?
Northlight workshopSimulated · subject W02
The relationship makes this knowable
Yes. A cancellation happened.
The supplied event log contains v2. The workshop is currently open at v3; the cancellation is historical.
Current status stays open · v33 events available
Your counterfactual
Keep a starting point. Change one condition. Compare what it permits.
This example runs from a fixed, local dataset. It demonstrates evidence and inference; it does not generate an AI answer. A missing event record leaves history unknown.
Keep a reference.
Compare a new possibility with what you actually started with.
Try to break it.
Remove what matters. See whether the function survives.
03 / A chance encounter
Take an
unlikely turn.
Three things you might never have put together.
What relationship could make them useful?
This browser draws three distinct building blocks from a curated set of twelve using Web Crypto. Continue in your chat to explore the connection.
SVG paths
A path can represent a relationship with a measurable position along it.
B01Versioned snapshots
A saved state can carry a version without reconstructing missing history.
B02Pointer capture
A drag can keep receiving pointer events after leaving its original target.
B0304 / The practice
Start anywhere.
Follow the relation.
An approach for people who are curious enough to explore,
and precise enough to ask what would make an idea fail.
A problem.
Change how the problem is represented. Ask which familiar rule might be negotiable.
An encounter.
Bring three to five documented ingredients together. Look for a functional connection.
An anomaly.
Stay with the observation that doesn’t fit. Make a question worth investigating.
A new purpose.
Borrow an existing function for another context. Keep the conditions that make it work.
Borrow the structure. Keep the conditions.
The Ortho perspective explores a problem through an abstraction, a source mechanism and a careful return to the original domain. Random encounters offer a different way into the same curiosity.
with a traceable return
05 / What stays honest
“A possibility can be worth exploring
before we know how far it goes.”
Questions belong here, too.
A mechanism, an open question, or a connection that doesn’t hold: each can be a useful outcome. Originality and real-world value take further investigation.
06 / Your next question
Bring something
unfinished.
A problem, a strange observation, or a few things you’re curious about. Give the exploration a real place to begin.
Use innoMOS in a chat where the plugin is available.You can also use the brief as a starting point in your own workflow.
A website made through its own practice
See how it was made This page began as an innoMOS Discovery commission. Its three proposed relationships became the lab, the pinned comparison and the break test you can use above.