Tools

Everything here is free, with no email wall. Print the PDFs and bring them to your next kickoff, or run the skills on your project directly.

The book

AI Problem Framing for AI Practitioners is the full method. It's a free PDF under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Worksheets and cheat sheets

AI Framing Worksheet

The eight questions to answer before you scope an AI project, in three sections: the problem, the approach, and the evidence.

PDF · 1 page

GOATS Loop cheat sheet

Each step's questions, outputs, and the red flags that mean you skipped it.

PDF · 4 pages

Signals Canvas

One page to agree with the owner on success, stop, and early-warning signals, each with a target and a date, before you build.

PDF · 1 page

In-the-Moment Reframing

The four traps in the room, with the phrase you'll hear and what to say instead.

PDF · 2 pages

The framing skills

frame-use-case and diagnose-use-case run the method on your own project inside Claude Code, Cursor, or any tool that supports Agent Skills. They're built to argue with you, and the diagnosis skill is allowed to recommend stopping. MIT licensed on GitHub.

Talks

Three short talks cover the whole arc, plus longer talks on the GOATS Loop and FlashAttention. Watch the talks →

In the cohort

The four-week Maven cohort goes further than the public material: live sessions on your own project, recorded lessons, the alternatives catalog and worked examples that aren't in the book, a database of more than 200 AI case studies with framing analysis, and office hours.