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The curriculum.

The framework, taught one variable at a time, free and on your own real work. By the end you can direct machines and own the verdict: the role rewired.

The Stack 5 layers
Models 3
Cost Free
Source The book
01The spine

One framework. Five layers.

The whole school is one line of maths, drawn as a stack. Five layers, built bottom-up: vision, data, process, the human layer, then AI as the roof. Each is a variable of the Framework and a layer you build, on your own real work, never a toy brief.

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The frameworkRead: vision, plus data times (process over human experience), to the power of AI. Hover any term.
  1. VLayer 01

    Set the verdict before the output

    Name what good looks like before anything is made, and write intent a machine can act on. The only variable that needs no AI, and the one everything else hangs from.

    Model · Vision-as-CodeStart free · The Direction Brief
  2. DLayer 02

    Make your work legible to machines

    Get the data your work runs on reachable, trusted, and ready to act on, so the agents you direct have clean fuel to run on.

    Model · The Human APIStart free · The Framework, Explained
  3. PLayer 03

    Hand the plumbing to the machine

    Find the routine in your week and delegate it for good. Every point of process you offload is headroom returned to human work.

    Model · Least FrictionStart free · The P/HX Audit
  4. HXLayer 04

    Design where human meets machine

    Raise the quality of the interface between people and AI until the work is genuinely good: the denominator that decides whether everything above it counts.

    Model · The Denominator RuleStart free · The Output Verdict
  5. AILayer 05

    Direct agents so the returns compound

    Move from prompting a chatbot to directing agents, and build so AI multiplies what you make, month over month. The exponent on the whole line.

    Model · The AI LadderStart free · The Executive's Field Guide

The capstoneFive layers earn the place on the ladder. The top rung comes after: a real, directed, 90-day piece of work, graded against the public rubric. Evidence, not attendance.

02The mind shifts

Three models to read it by.

The framework is the what. These three models, the spine of the book, are how you come to see your work differently.

01

The Expansion

Hand process to the machine and the human half of the work grows to fill the space.

02

The Inversion

The question flips: not what should I do for a living, but what should I live for.

03

The Ratio

Minimise the process you carry; maximise the human experience wrapped around it.

From the IdeaThe mental models, in full, on The Idea
03Two outcomes

What you can do by the end.

The same framework, run at two scales. One rewires you; the other rewires the work around you.

For you

You become a Blank Collar

  • Hand routine work to machines, and reclaim the hours for judgement.
  • Brief a machine on real work and own the outcome, not rescue a draft.
  • Judge AI output against a standard, and put your name on the verdict.
  • Climb the ladder: operator, orchestrator, director, blank collar.
Become a Blank Collar→
For the work around you

Your team runs on the framework

  • Map the P/HX ratio across a team and find the plumbing to offload.
  • Bring real AI literacy to the people you work with: Article 4, with a soul.
  • Direct machines instead of approving rollouts, and teach one person up a rung.
  • Run the same framework at every level: yourself first, then the room.
How the school works→
The ladderwhite collar → blank collar
01White collarprocess-bound
02Operatoruses the tools
03Orchestratordirects the workflow
04Directordesigns the system
05Blank collarowns the verdict
04The path

Where to start, and what comes next.

Nothing here is gated behind a sales call. Score yourself, read the layer that is free, then run the framework on your own work whenever you are ready.

  1. 01

    Score it

    Run the Index: twenty questions, your framework scored, your archetype named.

    Run the framework
  2. 02

    Read it

    The open library: field guides and worksheets to run the framework on your own work, free at the door.

    Open the library
  3. 03

    Run it

    Become a Blank Collar: the five variables worked through on your own real work, free.

    See the track
  4. 04

    Prove it

    The capstone: a directed, 90-day piece of work, graded against the public rubric.

    See the method
The source textThe framework, in full, on The Idea

Read it. Then run it.

The curriculum is the book, applied: on your own work, against a rubric you can read.

Grade yourself→Start the track→