Resources
The frameworks and job aids we use in engagements, documented in full. These ship inside our workshops and enablement programs.
Innovation
The Working Backwards questions
The five customer questions that precede any solution, and the Today Statement that compresses the answers into one testable sentence.
Read the methodMethodThe PRFAQ
A press release and FAQ written as though the product had already launched, so the argument happens before the build.
Read the methodMethodInnovation mechanisms
What a mechanism is made of, and why good intentions stop producing past the line of direct sight.
Read the methodMethodWorking Backwards and SIT
Where the two methods disagree, what each is blind to, and how a team runs them together.
Read the methodArtificial Intelligence
The AI value framework
A common language for sorting an AI idea list: which path a use case is on, and how much to put on each path.
Read the methodMethodVibe coding for business value
Four categories of application a team can build when AI writes the code, and which of the three AI value paths each one serves.
Read the methodJob aidPrompting: the RIGHT framework
The five-part prompt structure we hand to every workshop participant, and when to start adding examples.
Read the methodWorked exampleAI in learning and development
What each of the three value paths looks like inside one function, and where each one stops.
Read the methodPattern libraryAgent design patterns
Seven families of interaction pattern for agentic products, covering how work is handed over, supervised while it runs, and verified afterwards.
Read the methodThese are the methods. Our work is where they have been applied, and how we work is the shape an engagement takes.
Take one with you
The instruments themselves: a page to fill in, a card to keep beside the keyboard, a template to write into. No email, no form.
The AI Value Canvas
Place your own use cases on the three paths, then read the shape of the portfolio they make.
Prompt it RIGHT
The five-part prompt with a worked example for each letter, the zero to few-shot ladder, and which capability to reach for.
The Working Backwards Canvas
The five questions with room to answer them, the Today Statement template, and two worked examples of things that do not exist yet.
The PRFAQ Template
The nine parts of the press release as fields to write into, both FAQ sets, and the readout decision.
The Mechanism Canvas
The eight organizational levers with a column for yours, and adoption, inspection and iteration as tables to fill in.