Should This Be AI?
A deterministic diagnostic for deciding whether a workflow deserves rules, a hybrid system, or AI at all.
Make the architecture decision before the AI pitch starts.
Resources / Index
22 free guides
Free + paid
Guides, templates, diagnostics and tools for people trying to make AI useful. Take the free stuff. Pay for the deeper stuff when it saves you more than it costs.
Paid resource builds
The useful interactive work is staying. Its checkout and ownership path is being recut before we sell it.
A deterministic diagnostic for deciding whether a workflow deserves rules, a hybrid system, or AI at all.
Make the architecture decision before the AI pitch starts.
A guided build contract for turning a fuzzy idea into exact inputs, outputs, authority, failure states, tests and definition of done.
Hand a builder something they can actually build from.
A scope tool for cutting a first version down to one job, one proof signal and the smallest thing worth shipping.
Know what stays, what goes, and what proves the idea.
Start here / free / about 30 minutes
What AI is, what it is good at, where it fails, and the five words you actually need to know.
8 min →A one-page way to map departments, workflows, AI jobs, owners, proof, and rollout order without making fifty slides.
12 min →A workflow-by-workflow test for finding useful AI opportunities before anyone buys software.
10 min →A practical month-long rollout that produces evidence before policy decks, platform sprawl, or giant transformation programs.
10 min →Pick your problem / free
Start with the mental model, not the jargon.
Show me →FreeMap real work before buying tools.
Show me →FreeTurn opportunity into sequence, ownership, cost, and proof.
Show me →FreeWork out what to rent, what to own, and what to leave alone.
Show me →Learn
6 free resources
What AI is, what it is good at, where it fails, and the five words you actually need to know.
Start here
8 min
A plain-English checklist for privacy, hallucinations, permissions, human review, and knowing when not to automate.
Beginner
9 min
Common AI terms explained in one or two plain-English sentences with no requirement to sound technical afterward.
Start here
7 min
A practical map of what the EU AI Act is, who it affects, what is already live, and what the main risk levels mean.
Start here
10 min
A plain-English guide to the AI Act roles, because the same system can create very different duties depending on what your company actually does.
Beginner
8 min
Understand the practical difference between an AI proof of concept and an AI pilot, what each should prove, and when to stop doing demos.
Start here
6 min
Decide
4 free resources
A workflow-by-workflow test for finding useful AI opportunities before anyone buys software.
Beginner
10 min
A workflow-level build, buy, or hybrid framework without vendor hype.
Intermediate
7 min
Estimate capacity returned by an AI workflow without pretending that saved minutes automatically become cash.
Intermediate
6 min
Compare AI use cases by repeatability, business value, verifiability, reversibility and consequence risk before choosing a pilot.
Beginner
8 min
Use
4 free resources
Role-based guidance on what to delegate, what to keep human, and how to learn with real work.
Beginner
9 min
A prompt builder based on the same things a capable person needs: job, context, material, output, and quality bar.
Start here
7 min
A practical guide to the AI Act’s high-risk logging and retention concepts, and the difference between a normal app log and useful evidence.
Intermediate
12 min
A plain-English guide to Article 50 transparency duties, machine-readable marking, disclosure, and why a label is not the same thing as provenance evidence.
Beginner
9 min
Lead
8 free resources
A one-page way to map departments, workflows, AI jobs, owners, proof, and rollout order without making fifty slides.
Leader
12 min
A department-by-department AI strategy that answers what to buy, what to build, who owns it, what it costs, and what comes first.
Leader
14 min
A simple path from today, through copilots and department brains, to bounded autonomous agents.
Leader
11 min
A practical month-long rollout that produces evidence before policy decks, platform sprawl, or giant transformation programs.
Leader
10 min
A no-keynote format for turning a room of leaders into a useful AI peer group: who to invite, what to compare, what to share, and what to test next.
Leader
6 min
Ten department playbooks showing what to assist now, what to buy, what may be worth building, who should own it, and what to measure.
Leader
16 min
Build a practical 30-day AI pilot plan around one workflow, one owner, one measurable outcome and a real decision at the end.
Start here
10 min
Turn an AI experiment into measurable keep, change or kill criteria with a baseline, target, quality guardrail and fixed evidence sample.
Beginner
7 min
Notes / Think deeper
What we think, not another product shelf
Why AI systems need a record that survives after the model has moved on.
Read →A leadership position on technological change, jobs, responsibility, and what people are owed during the transition.
Read →Why useful AI systems depend on the harness around the model: tools, memory, rules, permissions, and proof.
Read →When reading is not enough
Use a WMS product only when it solves the problem you came here with.
Find out what could kill the idea before you spend more money on it.
Pressure-test an idea →Check a Toronto residential permit package for obvious missing pieces before you submit it.
Check my permit package →Turn one piece of work into an AI pilot your team can actually run for 30 days.
Build my 30-day pilot →The rule
Make it useful enough to save.
Useful enough to buy when it earns it.
Sugar Rush starts with real problems people already have. We make the clearest useful answer we can, then let the right problems lead naturally into deeper Resources, Products or Studio work.
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