Seed If-then promise

Define

A conditional contract: if you do this, you get that. The sentence can be tested against the reader's own case.

Mechanism

Contingent claim. Specificity does the persuading. The if names the action. The then names the outcome. Hedging kills it.

Verdict

We can name both the action and the result without adjectives doing the work.

Don't

The condition is vague, or the result cannot be checked. An untestable if-then is a wish.

Copy skeleton

If you [ACTION / CONDITION],

then [RESULT] within [TIME],

or [CONSEQUENCE / GUARANTEE].

[ASK]

Gulf note

Write the if and the then in the register the buyer already uses. Name who honors the clause. A promise without a named party is decoration.