Lab
Try the ideas we work with.
Seven short activities built from Maverick research frameworks. Each takes a few minutes and makes one idea concrete: how well something is actually known, how to reason when viewpoints conflict, where a person should stay in the loop, and how to check a system rather than trust it.
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Think clearly
Observed, inferred or unknown?
Label eight statements by how well they are actually known.
Start: Observed, inferred or unknown?Dilemma Walker
Change how each viewpoint reads a hard case and watch an advisory verdict, and its rule, shift.
Start: Dilemma WalkerAgent design
Spot the critical error
Ten short agent designs, each with one serious flaw.
Start: Spot the critical errorDelegation boundary builder
Decide what an agent may do alone and where a person steps in.
Start: Delegation boundary builderLearning and perception
Find the hidden rule
Work out a sorting rule, then test whether it holds on shapes you haven't seen.
Start: Find the hidden ruleEleven senses
Add noise to synthetic signals and trade false alarms against misses.
Start: Eleven sensesReplay
Replay lab
Record a physics run, replay it exactly, then change one input by a millimetre.
Start: Replay labThese are educational exercises. Verdicts and scores are illustrations of an idea, not advice or assessments.
From the Lab to your work
The same ideas, applied to one of your processes.
A Workflow Audit takes one recurring process and works out what to automate, where people stay in charge and how each result can be checked.