Learning Lab

Field guides for careful operators.

Methods you can run this week, in your own business, with your own people. Each guide states its risk level, its time cost, and exactly what you will be holding at the end — because a method that hides its costs is a demo, not a method.

How to read a guide card

  • Risk — what a careless run of this method can cost you
  • Time — honest total, including the boring parts
  • Outcome — the artifact or decision you finish with
Medium risk90 minutes setup, then two weeks of observation

Turn a Repeated Workflow Into an AI-Assisted Process

A two-week field method for converting one recurring workflow into an AI-assisted process without betting anything you cannot afford to lose.

You leave with

One workflow running with AI assistance, a written checkpoint design, and a go/no-go decision based on your own evidence instead of a vendor demo.

Tested in practiceCurrent observationDraft
Medium risk75 minutes

Choose an AI Model by Risk, Not Hype

A decision method for matching AI models to tasks based on what a wrong answer costs you — not on leaderboards or launch-day noise.

You leave with

A simple risk map of your AI use cases, and a defensible model choice for each one.

Tested in practiceWorking hypothesisDraft
High risk60 minutes

Before You Put Company Data Into an AI Tool

A one-hour working session that produces a data boundary your whole team can actually follow.

You leave with

A one-page data boundary — what may, may not, and must never go into an AI tool — written in your own operating language.

Tested in practiceFrom experienceDraft