Free practical resources

Start with the decision in front of you.

These fourteen reviews, checks and workfiles help make one business question clearer before you choose software, rebuild a project or pay for implementation.

Business & Workflow

Make the work visible before adding another system.

Use these when the problem involves flow, repeated work, handoffs, systems or too much responsibility staying with one person.

Broad starting point

Customer Flow Health Review

Find where customer information and everyday work are beginning to break down when the exact cause is not yet obvious.

Start the review

Known workflow

Workflow & Systems Review

Map duplicate entry, handoffs, status gaps, systems of record and integration opportunities across the tools already in use.

Review the workflow

Owner capacity

Founder Bottleneck Review

Separate decisions that truly need founder judgment from standards, examples, context and authority the team can use on its own.

Review founder dependency

Customer Communication

Find the first customer-contact handoff worth fixing.

A missed call may be a phone problem, but it may also be intake, scheduling, routing, callback or follow-up.

Calls + intake + follow-up

Customer Contact Workflow Review

Review the customer-contact path as one connected workflow and identify where people first fall through.

Review customer contact

Messaging & Audience

Clarify who the message is for before rewriting everything around it.

Use these when the business is difficult to explain, the website is unclear or the audience decision needs deeper work.

Website buying path

Website Message Clarity Review

Check whether a qualified visitor can identify the service, audience, outcome, proof and next action.

Review the website message

Deeper audience clarity

Audience Review

Connect the work and values to the decisions the audience is actually making before changing the offer, message or experience.

Start the Audience Review

Ideas & Project Decisions

Reduce the next commitment before you build or rebuild.

New ideas and stalled projects are different situations, but both benefit from a smaller, evidence-based next decision.

New direction

Idea-to-Test Review

Turn one promising idea into a bounded real-world test with a clear audience, invitation, learning signal and decision date.

Create the first test

Stalled or failed work

Digital Project Recovery Review

Inventory the current work and separate what can be kept, repaired, replaced or investigated before anyone proposes a complete restart.

Create a recovery map

Practical AI

Move from AI interest to a bounded, reviewable workflow.

These resources can be used independently. Together they move from fit and workday context through testing, human review, workflow design and software selection.

Does AI belong here?

AI Fit Check

Evaluate one responsibility against repetition, judgment, information sensitivity, consequence and review capacity.

Check the task

Where could it help?

AI Workday Review

Examine one recurring responsibility and define the human decision, support work and bounded use worth testing.

Review the workday

How should it be tested?

14-Day AI Test Plan

Create a limited experiment with a named task, reviewer, comparison point and stopping condition.

Build the test plan

Can someone rely on it?

Human Review Checklist

Check facts, sources, privacy, dignity, ownership, disclosure and correction before AI-supported work is relied on.

Define the review point

How does it become repeatable?

Map Your AI Workflow

Define the trigger, approved inputs, AI role, human review, ownership, exceptions and recheck point for an operational workflow.

Map the workflow

Which software fits?

AI Tool Match

Turn a defined job into tool-category requirements, integration needs, risk boundaries and reasons to reject a poor fit.

Build shortlist criteria

Tools for the work you actually do

Your business changes how the problem shows up.

A missed call, unclear handoff or AI risk carries different consequences depending on the work. Start with a small set of free tools framed around situations you recognize.