Session 1 worksheet

Vertical Triage

Manual group activity. Appoint one scribe and one spokesperson.

Group and case

Group
Candidate application

1. Technical claim

What capability is actually being transferred?

Critical technical assumption:

2. Baseline and distance

Named incumbent method and comparison metric:

Technical distance:

□ DIRECT
□ ADAPTATION
□ PIVOT

Reason:

3. Pivot cost and evidence

Time, talent, data and architecture change:

Current evidence grade and missing evidence:

4. Fastest useful experiment

Decision:

□ TEST
□ HOLD
□ KILL

Reopening condition:

Operator Collective Test

  1. Which human operator performed the critical work?
  2. Which tasks could agentic systems accelerate?
  3. Which decision must remain human?
  4. What evidence would prove that this intervention created value?

Final decision card

Gate
Decision owner

One-sentence rationale

Signed by the group scribe