FREE FIELD GUIDE · PLAYBOOK + CANVAS
Find your team’s first useful AI project
Compare three pieces of recurring work, choose one worth testing, and define what a useful result would look like.
By Ronnie Parsons, Mode Lab
Turn scattered AI ideas into a shared next step.
Your team may already be trying AI. This guide helps you agree which piece of existing work deserves a shared test—and what needs to be in place before you start.
Compare the candidates
Use six questions to assess value, inputs, ownership, checking and what happens if the result is wrong.
Make a reasoned choice
Choose work that matters and is ready for a small test. If nothing is ready, name the gap and who will resolve it.
Define a useful result
Agree the scope, owner, review checks and evidence you will use to continue, revise or stop.
What’s inside
The playbook
Six concise pages to guide your team from three candidates to one bounded test. Includes an illustrative example showing why one team chooses weekly client updates.
The companion canvas
A blank worksheet and a completed example, each in 19 × 11 and printer-friendly 17 × 11 inch landscape formats. All included in one downloadable PDF.
Use it with the person who owns the work. No particular AI tool is required.
Start with work your team can own and check.
For small teams and business owners who want a practical next step with AI. By Ronnie Parsons of Mode Lab, an Operating Design Studio.
Mode Lab · Operating Design Studio