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Rebuild
one workflow
around AI.

Pick one workflow and decide, step by step, what a machine takes on and what stays with a person. It takes about ninety minutes, alone or with the team, and ends with a one-page brief for every machine step: the rule it follows, what catches a mistake, and who can switch it off.

How it goes

Start with something the team does every week: chasing an unpaid invoice, answering a complaint, bringing on a new hire. Write down how it really happens, not how the process doc says it does. Then ask one question of every step: is this a rule, or a judgment call? The answers decide where a machine goes. Once it’s there, steps can move, merge, or disappear.

  1. Map the workEvery step, who owns it, and what “done” means for it.
  2. Rule, or judgment call?Every step starts with a machine. A person stays only where it takes judgment.
  3. Where could AI help?Eight cards, each one thing AI does well, with how it fails printed on the back. The tool suggests where they go. The team decides.
  4. Rearrange the workWith a machine on some steps, the order can change: a loop, a merge, a step gone.
  5. Push it furtherFour questions that catch a timid redesign.
  6. How will we catch mistakes?A check, a stop, and a safety net for every step a machine touches.
  7. Write the briefOne page per machine step, filled in from the answers so far, with the best first build flagged.
  8. Your briefPrint it, copy it, save it. Get a second opinion from your own AI, plus a list of questions for whoever controls each system.

Where this came from

It started as a deck of cards on a conference table. Dozens of teams, from retail to asset management, have used it to redesign real workflows and pilot them. The deck is a free PDF.

Your answers stay put

No server, no account, and no AI reading your answers. Everything saves in this browser. It leaves only if you share a link, save a file, or paste the brief into your own AI.

Start with the workflow everyone complains about.

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What you leave with

A plan someone can actually build from.

Here’s a worked example — the Associated Press’s earnings desk, a real newsroom that really did automate this — after one afternoon with the cards: which step a machine takes over, what it reads, how we know it got it right, and who can pull the plug. Yours will look like this.