Locate the work
Use the progression ladder to discuss where one workflow stands today.
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Tools to build
AI into work.
Free frameworks, worksheets, and examples to help you make the next useful move. Open, download, and use them. No email required.
One workflow. Three useful moves.
Make the decisions
Define the problem, product, people, production, and proof.
Use the Five Decisions worksheet ↗Define the value
Choose a baseline, a useful outcome, and the costs to account for.
Use the value and cost worksheet ↗Find a shared starting point.
Locate the work before choosing the next capability to build.
AI transformation progression ladder
Five stages to locate the work and identify the next capability to build.
Move from possibility to a decision.
Explore examples, map one workflow, and compare opportunities using evidence.
The agentic workforce for HR
A map of 40 potential agents across HR. Use it to start a conversation about your own workflows.
AI transformation assessment
A team discussion template: stage, evidence, next step, owner, and review date.
Enterprise AI use cases
24 examples across HR, revenue, operations, and personal work, labeled by type and function.
Workflow Opportunity Canvas
Map the work before deciding where AI belongs.
AI Opportunity Prioritization Scorecard
Compare opportunities using explicit evidence and a discussion rubric.
Make the work concrete.
Define the product, delivery route, responsibilities, and boundaries.
Build a People Analytics AI assistant
An end-to-end playbook for a Google Chat assistant backed by BigQuery. Walk through mock data, metric definitions, access controls, deployment, and testing, with explained code examples.
Designing your AI delivery model
Compare self-serve builders, embedded engineers, a central team, borrowed engineers, and vendors.
Five Decisions worksheet
Define Problem, Product, People, Production, and Proof for one workflow.
Four Routes decision guide
Choose between DIY, Rent, Borrow, and Embed for a specific workflow.
One-Page Internal Product Brief
Turn an opportunity into a small product with a user, owner, and proof plan.
Human and AI Responsibility Map
Make task boundaries, approval, and escalation explicit.
Know what works. Keep it useful.
Set a baseline, test results, and plan for ownership after launch.
The seven-layer AI ROI stack
Look beyond time saved. Map efficiency, scale, quality, experience, risk, capability, and financial impact.
AI value and cost worksheet
Select value measures, set a baseline, and account for delivery and operating costs.
AI Pilot Evaluation Scorecard
Test usefulness, accuracy, exceptions, and human effort before expanding a pilot.
Operating Readiness Checklist
Check the evidence needed to keep a workflow useful after launch.
30/60/90-Day Action Plan
Turn a decision into owned actions, evidence, and review points.
Assumptions and Decision Log
Keep supporting and disconfirming evidence attached to a decision.
Connect your experience to a next move.
Choose a useful contribution and demonstrate it through a small project.
Four types of AI leaders
Navigator, Builder, Practitioner, and Amplifier: complementary roles every team needs.
AI positioning session
Connect your experience to a direction and a small project. Includes a self-contained assistant prompt.
See what a completed tool looks like.
Three fictional examples show the decisions, assumptions, and evidence behind the work.
Worked Example: HR Policy Answer Drafting
Follow one fictional workflow from opportunity to a pilot and operating decision.
Worked Example: Cross-Functional Intake
Use the tools to improve a handoff across sales and delivery.
Worked Example: Finding Your AI Contribution
Turn domain experience into a direction and a two-week learning project.
The ideas behind the tools.
Open the live presentations or download the original session toolkits.
From Reports to Products
A product mindset for People Analytics: spot product opportunities, make useful and trustworthy tradeoffs, and identify where you can lead. Includes the Project Blue case study.
AI transformation inside the enterprise
Vic’s WashingtonExec presentation, including the use-case appendix.
The Internal Product House
Vic’s SIOP Leading Edge Consortium presentation on delivering internal products.
Make them useful in your own work.
PDFs are printable. Editable templates are Markdown text files you can open in a text editor or copy into your preferred document tool. CSV scorecards open in a spreadsheet application; use the blank row for your work and treat example rows as illustrations.
Use and adapt these tools for your own work or your team’s work. When sharing an adaptation, credit Built Into Work / Vic Akosile and link to the original. Third-party platforms and linked presentations retain their own terms.