The Three AI Eras
The tool era · The partnership era · The era after (Book 1: Beyond Partnership)
AI Don't Fix Stupidity
Transforming Your Business into an AI-First Operation · The book
The Six Shifts
The Six Shifts describe the target operating model of an AI-first organisation.
The Eight-Dimension Readiness Assessment
Each dimension is scored 1 to 5 on the same anchored scale (Nascent, Emerging, Moderate, Advanced, Leading).
Three-Lens Prioritisation
Every candidate capability is judged on business value, technical feasibility and organisational readiness, each with a floor it must clear.
The AI Factory
The factory is the delivery engine.
The Earned Autonomy Ladder
No organisation earns trust by decree.
The Five-Layer Context Hierarchy
Context is the one part of the architecture the business rather than IT must own.
The Verification Map
The map is a quality check, separate from the context hierarchy: the hierarchy says where context lives and who owns it, the map checks what each layer supplies.
The Tool Risk Ladder
Every tool is classified before deployment by what it can do, with approval rising by level.
Governance Tiers
Tiers classify the decision; the Tool Risk Ladder classifies the tool.
The Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC) and the deployment gate
Because an agent does not behave the same way every time, evaluation is "a gate, not a stage": automated, unattended and blocking, with golden-set and adversarial cases run on every proposed change.
The AI Heartbeat
The Heartbeat is the number a manager reads; the harder metrics are what they open when a sub-score moves.
The Five-Category Value Model
Categories are reported separately, and a total is allowed only with its summing rule stated beside it.
Time to Value
Time to Value is how long the organisation takes to turn a recognised opportunity into value people are actually receiving.
The AI Change Organisation
Line management is busy running the business, so a transformation that loads the change work onto it runs at line management's spare capacity, "usually zero".
Customer Zero
Use your own organisation as the proving ground: failure is cheap, feedback is honest, "We run this ourselves" earns credibility, and the unglamorous operational problems get solved first.
Your First 90 Days
The toolkit answers "what do I actually do on Monday morning?" by turning the frameworks into three periods, each with the evidence to hold at the end.
AI Don't Make You Smarter
The Partnership Does · The book
The Four Ingredients
The simplest model the author uses "in every organisation I help".
The Last Mile
Treat a digital coworker like a new hire and onboard it.
Twenty, Seventy, Ten
A rule for dividing effort inside the partnership.
The Human Half
The human ingredient of the four, itemised in the order the author found the items to matter.
Gate, Don't Inspect
Work you did not do is trusted the way leaders have always trusted others' work: by building a process that makes it trustworthy and reading what the process cannot decide.
Your First Thirty Days
The personal counterpart to Book 1's first 90 days.
Frameworks may be referenced and adapted with attribution to Magnus Oxenwaldt and the book they come from.