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22 free guides

Free + paid

Useful things.
Some free. Some 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.

/P01Paid / coming soon

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.

/P02Paid / coming soon

The Build Brief

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.

/P03Paid / coming soon

The MVP Knife

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

If AI still feels like a giant fog, do these four in order.

Pick your problem / free

Learn

6 free resources

Decide

4 free resources

Use

4 free resources

Lead

8 free resources

/02

Whole Business Map

Free

A one-page way to map departments, workflows, AI jobs, owners, proof, and rollout order without making fifty slides.

Leader12 minOpen →
/04

AI Strategy

Free

A department-by-department AI strategy that answers what to buy, what to build, who owns it, what it costs, and what comes first.

Leader14 minOpen →
/07

Transformation

Free

A simple path from today, through copilots and department brains, to bounded autonomous agents.

Leader11 minOpen →
/10

First 30 Days

Free

A practical month-long rollout that produces evidence before policy decks, platform sprawl, or giant transformation programs.

Leader10 minOpen →
/11

Leader Meeting Kit

Free

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.

Leader6 minOpen →
/14

Department Playbooks

Free

Ten department playbooks showing what to assist now, what to buy, what may be worth building, who should own it, and what to measure.

Leader16 minOpen →
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AI Pilot Template

Free

Build a practical 30-day AI pilot plan around one workflow, one owner, one measurable outcome and a real decision at the end.

Start here10 minOpen →
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AI Pilot Success Metrics

Free

Turn an AI experiment into measurable keep, change or kill criteria with a baseline, target, quality guardrail and fixed evidence sample.

Beginner7 minOpen →

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