1. Check the fact. Question the fear.
A cancelled project is a fact. Your team being next is an inference. Ask which priorities still have funding.

2. Give AI a task you can check.
Test AI on a familiar task, review the draft, and decide whether to keep, change or stop. Count checking and correction time.

3. Smaller team. Smaller promises.
After layoffs, discuss which commitments continue, which can wait and which can stop. Your manager needs to confirm the priorities.

4. Give Plan B a place.
Make time in your week to explore another role, maintain relationships or try a small project. Adjust the effort to your circumstances as support for your role changes.

5. Make your work easy to retell.
Explain the problem, your contribution, the result and who helped. Use a specific example, including useful work that rarely gets a launch announcement.

6. Ask a mentor one useful question.
Start a mentoring conversation with a specific request, such as help choosing a small project. Come back with what you tried, what happened and your next question.