You leave with the workflow built, not with notes about building it.

Do-it-with-you. You run the ten-stage design method against your own live professional work, with facilitation at the points where the decisions are genuinely hard.

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Why live, rather than self-study

Three stages of the design method reliably stall when people work alone, and they are the three that determine whether the whole thing works.

Stage 1, Define: the target output. Almost everyone writes something too vague on the first attempt. Working alone you do not find out until Stage 7, when the test fails and you cannot tell why.

Stage 4, Allocate — human and AI roles. The instinct is to allocate by what AI can technically do rather than by what you must be able to defend. Someone asking "and who is accountable when that is wrong?" changes the answer.

Stage 6, Govern — translating standards into checks. Turning professional judgment into an operable rubric and its quality gates is genuinely difficult, and it is where most self-built workflows quietly become checklists that check nothing.

The rest of the method works fine on your own. These three benefit from being challenged in the moment.

Formats

Author Lab — build the Book Development OS against your own manuscript. Available
Consultant Knowledge-to-IP Lab — build your Knowledge-to-IP workflow against your own material. Available
ARCHITECT cohort — facilitated knowledge recovery and codification within the Consultant or Author family. How ARCHITECT works. Available
Project management pilot — cohort by application. Apply. Pilot
Single-organisation workshop: a group from one organisation building a shared workflow on a shared output. Available

Your work stays yours

The workflow you build belongs to you. Your source materials, manuscripts, client information and intellectual property remain under your control throughout and afterwards.

If we want to use anything from your workshop as a product example, teaching artefact or case study, we ask you in writing first, every time, and anonymise by default. Consent is recorded before anything can be published: it is a gate in our system, not a good intention.

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What you need to bring

Real work. A manuscript in progress, a live project, actual consulting or professional material — something with genuine stakes. The method tests against real work at Stage 7, Test, and a hypothetical produces a hypothetical workflow that falls over the first time you use it.

Honesty

Scope and limits.

You leave with a workflow, not a finished output. Producing the book, report or framework is what you then do with it — repeatedly, without us.
It does not remove the need for specialists. Part of the design work is identifying where independent professional review stays valuable.
It does not guarantee a result. What the workflow produces depends on your inputs, judgment and participation. We are accountable for the method and facilitation, not your outcome.
It does not cover regulated advice. Legal, medical, financial and compliance content escalates to qualified professionals; the workflow routes it, not attempts it.

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Tell us what you would be building.

Workshops run to a schedule and by cohort. Tell us the work you would bring and we will tell you which format fits, or that none of them do yet.

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Optional first step

A baseline takes little time and is useful to have later, and it occasionally saves people from booking a workshop when a workflow pack would have done. It is optional, not a prerequisite for enquiring.

Organisations

For a group from a single organisation, start with organisational benchmarking so the workshop targets the actual variance rather than an assumed one. Start a conversation →