The Workbench
Every template, tool, worksheet and demonstration twin we publish lives here, as content you can use and keep. Nothing on this shelf asks you to sign in, and nothing you fill in leaves your own device unless you print it or download it.
If you read to the back of Bears and Mosquitoes, this is where the book sent you. The framework the book describes is laid out page by page on the home page; the Workbench is where you pick up the tools and build.
The shelf is sorted by the seat it serves. Take the set written for yours, and borrow from the others as the work needs.
The templates
Each template is filled in on its own page in your browser, saves to your device as you type, and prints as a clean page or downloads as plain text. Each one also carries a prompt, so that you can hand the same questions to an AI assistant and have it interview you and write the document. They are free, because the framework is only worth something if people use it.
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The builder's set
I want to build my own
The order the book teaches: write down who you are, choose the character your agent carries, give it a manifest, then stand it up.
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The operator's set
Once an agent is running
The rhythm that keeps an agent honest after it ships, for the person who built it and for the steward who inherits it.
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The client's set
I run a company
The two questions a leader can answer about their own firm before anyone is engaged: what would happen if a vendor left, and who owns each agent.
- The vendor-test worksheetone page, sent with the book's sampler
- The agent registerevery agent, tool and vendor, with a named owner
- The five-question screenyour own answers, drawn as a first sketch
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The partner's set
I advise companies
The licensed kit, with the procedure, the intake, the instrument, the training cases and the readout format, is refined on the first client engagement and sits behind the partner door.
The builds
A build is a sitting with a result at the end of it. The templates above feed them.
- Build one: the notebookThe first guided build from the book. One corpus, one tool, one afternoon, and the core discipline of every trusted agent practiced before you touch a rule.
- Build two: Build Your Own AI LabHow one person stood up a working lab beside a full-time job. Module 01 is published in five forms; the rest of the track is listed as its outline.
The demonstration twins
A Trusted Living Twin is one business drawn on one map, measured before AI and after it. The twin of a real client is confidential and runs in the client's own environment. The fictional firm below is the only public twin, and it is built from end to end so that a leader can see the method work.
- Hollister ReedThe demonstration. Run the vendor test on a firm that is not yours.
- The baselineThe before nobody kept: how a business is measured before its first pilot.
- The Trusted Living TwinWhat a twin holds, what it lets you trust, and the license under which a client keeps its own.