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The Long List

Tools we want to build. Some are next-up (build-next), some have active work (in-development), some are intent without a date (planned), some are candidates we're evaluating (speculative).

79 tools across the long list.

Build Next

Trust Temperature Check

5-min team version of RIST. Quick pulse for workshops.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Consciously Manage Trust · Type: quick-diagnostic


AI Experiment Canvas

Hypothesis → MVP → measure → learn for AI initiatives.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Design and Prototype · Type: canvas


Adoption Friction Diagnostic (CMTO)

Four-box model: Capability + Motivation + Trust + Opportunity/Friction.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: diagnostic


Ethics Risk Scanner

Scan for ethical risks across 8 dimensions.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Manage Ethics Always · Type: diagnostic


Leader AI Usage Audit

How visibly does the leader use AI? Walk-the-talk measure.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Active Modeling · Type: assessment


SCARF Threat Diagnostic

Which psychological threat drives resistance?

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Creative Cultivation · Type: diagnostic


Friction Audit

Map every friction point. Which can you kill?

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Friction Courage · Type: canvas


AI-Strategy Alignment Audit

Is your AI portfolio aligned with strategy?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Strategic Coherence · Type: assessment


AI Decision Rights Mapper (RACI+)

Who approves model deployment, who owns data access?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Decision Rights · Type: interactive-tool


AI Risk Register Template

Model, data, operational, reputational, regulatory risk.

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Risk Intelligence · Type: template


Agentic Trust Level

Green/amber/red zones for agent autonomy.

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Agent Authority · Type: interactive-tool


Role Redesign Canvas

Decompose role into tasks. Which can AI do?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: First-Derivative Talent · Type: canvas


Governance Maturity Assessment

Ad hoc → Reactive → Defined → Managed → Optimizing.

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Governance Intelligence · Type: diagnostic


In Development

Wicked Problem Mapper

Map interconnected problems, stakeholders, constraints for AI adoption.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Embrace Complexity · Type: interactive-tool


Psychological Safety Index

Reframed for AI: do people feel safe admitting they don't understand the AI?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Consciously Manage Trust · Type: diagnostic


Change Impact Assessment

Who's affected, how, what support needed?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Put People First · Type: canvas


Stakeholder Empathy Map

What do stakeholders think, feel, say, do about AI?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Put People First · Type: canvas


Nudge Audit

What choice architecture exists around AI adoption?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: canvas


Ethical Dilemma Scenario Cards

20 scenario cards for leadership workshops.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Manage Ethics Always · Type: workshop-tool


Scenario Planning Canvas

2×2 uncertainty matrix for AI futures.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Strategic Imagination · Type: canvas


Bureaucracy Buster Scorecard

How many approvals to pilot an AI tool?

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Friction Courage · Type: assessment


Stakeholder Trust Map

Who trusts the initiative? Heat-mapped.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Trust Calibration · Type: interactive-tool


Influence Network Heatmap

Formal vs informal power. Heat-mapped.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Systems Orchestration · Type: interactive-tool


Portfolio Rationalization Matrix

Map AI initiatives by value × feasibility. Kill the zombies.

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Strategic Coherence · Type: canvas


Shadow AI Audit

What AI tools are people using that IT doesn't know about?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Risk Intelligence · Type: assessment


Skills Gap Analyzer

Current vs needed skills for AI-augmented roles.

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: First-Derivative Talent · Type: assessment


Planned

Team Capability Heatmap

Manager-facing. Map your team across User→Architect.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Master the Craft · Type: assessment


PKM Maturity Diagnostic

6 levels: Chaos → One Box → Linked Thinking → Working Memory → Augmented Intelligence → Institutional Brain.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Master the Craft · Type: diagnostic


Sensemaking Diagnostic

Surfaces the narratives beneath stated objections.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Embrace Complexity · Type: diagnostic


AI Trust Calibration Quick-Check

Over-trusting or under-trusting? 6 questions.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Consciously Manage Trust · Type: quick-diagnostic


Assumption Mapper

Surface and test assumptions about the AI tool, users, and process.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Design and Prototype · Type: canvas


Pilot Design Template

Scope, success criteria, timeline, kill criteria, scale-up triggers.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Design and Prototype · Type: template


Behavioral Intervention Selector

Given CMTO diagnosis, which of 9 intervention types to use?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: interactive-tool


Loss Aversion Mapper

Map perceived losses from AI adoption.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: canvas


Defaults Audit

Is AI opt-in or opt-out in your org?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: canvas


Behavioral Design Sprint

Define target behavior → barriers → intervention type → design → test → measure.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: template


Ladder of Inference Diagnostic

Most AI resistance lives at the assumption layer.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: diagnostic


MINDSPACE Audit

9 influences on behavior applied to AI adoption.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: canvas


AI Bias Audit Template

Identify where bias enters, who's harmed, what to test.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Manage Ethics Always · Type: template


Cognitive Bias Audit for AI

Automation bias, anchoring, confirmation bias in AI decision-making.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Manage Ethics Always · Type: diagnostic


Future-Back Strategy Template

Start from 2028, work backward.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Strategic Imagination · Type: template


Modeling Behavior Gap Analysis

Behaviors you want vs. behaviors you demonstrate.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Active Modeling · Type: canvas


From GTD to GSD — The AI Productivity System

GTD reimagined for humans managing AI agents.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Active Modeling · Type: template


Build Your Chief of Staff in Cowork

Step-by-step guide to creating a CoS agent.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Active Modeling · Type: ai-tool


Innovation Blockers Diagnostic

What's killing innovation?

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Creative Cultivation · Type: diagnostic


Permission-to-Fail Assessment

How your org handles failure: punish, ignore, tolerate, or celebrate?

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Friction Courage · Type: quick-diagnostic


Trust Repair Protocol

Step-by-step repair after a trust breach.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Trust Calibration · Type: template


Ethical Leadership Self-Assessment

Do you model ethical AI use?

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Ethical Stewardship · Type: diagnostic


Feedback Loop Identifier

Find reinforcing and balancing loops in your adoption system.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Systems Orchestration · Type: workshop-tool


Polarity Map for AI Adoption

Tensions that can't be solved, only managed.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Systems Orchestration · Type: canvas


Initiative Coherence Scorecard

Do your initiatives reinforce each other or compete?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Strategic Coherence · Type: scorecard


Authority Escalation Matrix

When does an AI decision need human sign-off?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Decision Rights · Type: template


Risk Appetite Calibrator

How much AI risk is your org willing to take?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Risk Intelligence · Type: diagnostic


Human-in-the-Loop Decision Tree

When must a human review AI output?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Agent Authority · Type: template


Agent Guardrails Template

Per agent: what can it access, modify, escalate?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Agent Authority · Type: template


Workforce Transformation Roadmap

12-month roadmap: role analysis → skill mapping → training → measurement.

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: First-Derivative Talent · Type: template


Policy Effectiveness Tracker

Are your AI policies changing behavior?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Governance Intelligence · Type: tracker


Double-Loop Learning Assessment

Is governance reacting or evolving?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Governance Intelligence · Type: diagnostic


Adoption Friction Mapper

Process-level tool that maps where users disengage in an AI adoption journey, where workarounds emerge, and where value leaks. Combines user journey mapping with behavioural observation. Distinct from CMTO (id 22) which is the four-factor diagnostic.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: canvas


Social Frictions-Allies Assessment

Behavioural mapping of stakeholder dynamics affecting AI adoption — who enables, who blocks, who is affected but unheard. Pilot→prototype→scaling governance layer.

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Type: assessment


Conditions Audit

Diagnostic assessing whether the six organisational conditions necessary for the Leadership Delta to close are present. Sponsorship, reinforcement, structural enablers, peer norms, time/space, consequence alignment.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Type: diagnostic


Speculative

Tool Stack Audit

What AI tools does your org actually use vs. sanctioned vs. shadow AI?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Master the Craft · Type: canvas


Prompt Engineering Maturity Quiz

5-min quiz. Are you copy-pasting or system-prompting?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Master the Craft · Type: quick-diagnostic


AI Learning Concierge

Personalized learning plan from vetted sources.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Master the Craft · Type: ai-tool


Complexity Radar

Where are you pretending it's simple?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Embrace Complexity · Type: canvas


Dependency Network Visualizer

Map technical + human dependencies.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Embrace Complexity · Type: interactive-tool


Displacement Risk Calculator

Role-by-role task automation analysis.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Put People First · Type: assessment


MVP Readiness Checklist

Before you pilot: data ready? Users identified? Rollback plan?

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Design and Prototype · Type: checklist


Habit Formation Tracker

Track adoption behaviors over 30/60/90 days.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: tracker


Social Proof Dashboard

Make AI use visible, celebrated, normal.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Prioritize Behavior · Type: template


Responsible AI Maturity Checklist

Aspirational → embedded maturity curve.

Domain: Change Agility · Pillar: Manage Ethics Always · Type: checklist


AI Opportunity Scanner

Process-by-process: where could AI create value?

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Strategic Imagination · Type: interactive-tool


Leader-Team AI Alignment Check

Perception gap: does the team see the leader's AI stance the way the leader does?

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Active Modeling · Type: quick-diagnostic


Experimentation Permission Audit

Do people feel permission to experiment with AI?

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Creative Cultivation · Type: quick-diagnostic


Values-AI Alignment Audit

Map stated values against AI practices.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Ethical Stewardship · Type: canvas


Stakeholder Network Analyzer

Identify brokers, bottlenecks, isolated clusters.

Domain: Leadership Delta · Pillar: Systems Orchestration · Type: interactive-tool


Decision Velocity Diagnostic

How fast do AI decisions get made?

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Decision Rights · Type: quick-diagnostic


Governance Learning Loop Audit

Single vs double-loop governance learning.

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Pillar: Governance Intelligence · Type: canvas


Governance Dashboard

Board-level governance readout aggregating decision rights, agent authority, risk intelligence, and strategic coherence into a single view.

Domain: Behavioral Governance · Type: scorecard

Scope is broad — likely splits into 2-3 separate dashboards once defined. Speculative until decomposed.