Opening five chat windows is not a workflow. It is a pile of parallel conversations. A useful multi-model process needs a shared brief, a clear role for each pass, and a way to carry the best material forward.
The goal is not maximum output. The goal is controlled contrast.
Pass one: open the space
Use the first model for range. Ask for competing frames, uncomfortable questions, and directions that do not share the same assumptions. Do not polish yet. At this stage, neatness is a constraint.
Select only the fragments that create energy. A surprising phrase, a sharper audience truth, or a structure you would not have reached alone is enough to justify the pass.
Pass two: create friction
Hand the selected direction to a different model and ask it to challenge the logic. The second model should not simply continue. Give it permission to disagree, find the missing constraint, and point out where the idea is generic.
Good handoffs preserve context but change the kind of attention applied to it.
Pass three: commit
Return with a narrower brief: what must survive, what must disappear, and what finished means. Use the final pass for coherence, then make the last editorial decisions yourself.
A strong flow ends with fewer possibilities than it began with—and one result that feels more inevitable because it met several different minds along the way.