The system, at work.
The framework taken out of the abstract and put to work in the real world, dissected honestly: what was done, why, what it produced, and where it fell short. Newest first.
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Four Rungs, and the Courage to Stop
How Avidity ran AI pilots so few of them ever stalled. An AIPP at intake, a Sub24-to-Platform ladder gated by traction, and the discipline to stop an ask the moment the pain was already solved.
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The Shaping Cone
How a function defaulted to the department of no became the engine of responsible speed. IT reframed as Innovation Technology, reporting high, with governance as the shaping cone rather than the brake.
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Fifteen Minutes at a Time
At Avidity the AI policy was written by Legal, IT, and my team. Then I personally trained more than half the company on it, fifteen minutes at a time, because a policy that cannot be understood is functionally not a policy.
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The 72-Hour Transcript
Everyone wanted AI meeting transcripts, and everyone feared them, the wrong details and the permanent discoverable record. The fix was to make the transcript delete itself in 72 hours, and to make downloading it the act that assigned responsibility, under company policy, for finalizing the record.
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Better Than a Blank Page
A wall of INDs and BLAs the writing team could not reach, and twelve months of no. Then three days in a room proved that a first draft at 60 to 75 percent beats a blank page, and a resistant team finally had its aha.
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The Task Was Never the Point
A junior analyst automated one repetitive task in an afternoon. The hours saved were trivial. What it started was not. One convert became an AI Ambassador, and a whole department began to reimagine its work.
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Built by Its Own Rules
The strongest test of a system is whether its author will use it. This publication was built with the exact framework it teaches, AI-assisted and human-accountable. Here is how, including where I was breaking my own rules.