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Pick a goal — we’ll point you to the right free first step.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 12:00 pm ET thursday primer · 7:00 pm ET live working session
Four pathways through what is already on the shelf. Each one starts with a real problem and ends with something you keep.
For status updates, decision briefs, meeting preparation, and clearer evidence.
Start with this Flash Mission
Project Status Report in 5 MinutesFree replayThen build the artifact
Status Report session canvasLibrary canvasNext practical step
True-Net ROI Canvas — prove the call was worth itWorking fileFor defining a job, setting boundaries, creating a stop condition, requiring evidence, and keeping human ownership clear.
Start with this Flash Mission
Can I Safely Put This In?Free replayThen build the artifact
Find · Fence · Forge workshop canvasLibrary canvasNext practical step
Verify First — the standing gate you keepReusable templateFor repetitive work, source gathering, handoffs, planning, and reusable systems.
Start with this Flash Mission
Inbox ZeroFree replayThen build the artifact
Inbox Zero session canvasLibrary canvasNext practical step
Build Your Second Brain — the sources your helper answers fromWorking fileFor leaders setting expectations, protecting Human-Owned Zones, and helping teams use approved AI assistants responsibly.
Start with this Flash Mission
Leading the ChangeFree replayThen build the artifact
Leading the Change workshop canvasLibrary canvasNext practical step
HOZ Mapper — mark the zones that stay humanWorking fileMy AI Operating System · Pilot
Your AI Operating System is your saved instructions, sources, boundaries, tests, and ways of working with AI.
Fence Check
The boundary: what goes in, what gets cleaned first, and what stays out.
Open the session →Status Writer
An honest weekly status that only says what your notes support.
Open the session →Source Keeper
Answers you can check, drawn only from sources you approved.
Open the session →The replays show you the work. The Library helps you build the system. See current pricing →
The same material, sorted by the job in front of you rather than by what format it happens to be in.
Sound like yourself, at the speed the work actually moves.
Know where the answer came from before you repeat it.
Say what is true, what is missing, and who decides.
Leave the room with owners, dates, and a record you can point at.
Do it once properly, then keep the thing you built.
Set the expectation, protect the Human-Owned Zones, and go first.
Watch the move. Build the artifact. Use it in real work. Keep what works.
Session replays are free, always. What the Library adds is the canvas, the working file, the order to do them in — and the record of what you built.
Questions, answered
Yes. The live sessions and their replays are free, and they stay free — no account needed to watch. The Library is what you use to do the work afterwards.
The working canvases, the files you fill in and keep, the reusable systems, and the order to do them in — organised by the job in front of you rather than by format.
Pick one of the four pathways above. Each one names the first mission to watch, the canvas to fill in, and the next practical step. You do not need to start at the beginning.
Everything in the Library, plus one structured Artifact Review each month and one live Review Room. It is bounded on purpose — one artifact, one feedback pass, one clarification. See what it includes.
Yes. You can cancel from your account whenever you like, and you keep access through the period you have already paid for.
Shared workflows, a rollout, sensitive material, or facilitated decisions are a conversation, not a checkout. Talk with Acute.
Start from the problem
Pick the outcome you're after. We'll open the short missions that get you there. Nine missions, grouped five ways — some show up in more than one bundle.
New here? Start with the program
Five done-for-you kits in the order that makes them work: draw the fence, write your voice, tame the inbox, own your meeting actions, then chain the work. Included with your membership.
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Free from our Foundations series — watch the builds, grab the tools. The rest lives in the Library.
One for each part — no login needed. Print them, share them, keep them by the keyboard.
All four parts, one interactive page. Build your foundation and walk out with a paste-ready Foundation Brief.
Open FreePrintable card: your helper can get quietly worse while still reporting success. Build the landmark that catches it.
Open FreePrintable card: what to feed your notebook, what to leave out, and what to ask it first.
Open FreePrintable card: your words, your rhythm, your never-say list — on one page.
Open FreePrintable card: sort any input into feed, redact, or leave out — in seconds.
Open FreeA worked example: one idea fanned out into five finished pieces, same voice.
Open FreePrintable card matching each audience to the shape the message should take.
Open FreeThe 15-minute weekly habit that keeps your reach going.
Open FreePrintable scorecard: score any task against the five gates and get a clear hand-off verdict.
Open FreeWho you talk to, in what order, and how you know they're actually on board — before you call the meeting.
Open FreePrintable one-pager: the three-pile sort, the five-check send gate, and a week's tally for the 20-minute inbox pass.
Open FreePrintable one-pager: four buckets, one rule and one gate for the ten minutes after a meeting — every action with a name and a date.
Open FreeSix headings, the evidence ladder, five checks. Fill it by hand or hand it to your Status Writer.
Open FreePrintable card: the six headings, the stop rules and the decision finish for a ten-minute AI inbox check — plus the free practice set.
Open FreePrintable card: the primer's four moves for an AI-made infographic, and four checks before you use it — plus the free practice set.
OpenThe work session: sort real inputs into feed, redact, or leave out.
The evening session: a second pass at the fence, with fresh questions.
Session replays are free to watch.
The whole fence on one page: sort it fast, the three questions, tool tiers, the 20-second redaction checklist.
The short listen: what's safe to paste, what needs scrubbing, and what stays out for good.
The interactive session canvas, the worked examples, the fence tools, and the frameworks + blueprint are inside the Library.
Everything else lives in the Library$357/year or $39/month.
A person always makes the final call. · Acute Incite · powered by theCommons Academy
Micro Lessons · Free
Each lesson has a dedicated page with the curriculum, a preview to try, and a single next action. Read them in order or jump to what you need.
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Do all six in order, or pick the one you need. The Applied Courses have no prerequisite.
Finished the six? Step 3 · Diagnose your work with the free FrictionIndex™ →
Live Sessions · 27-week series
Free preview is public. The full kit unlocks each Thursday at 12:00pm ET for members.
Build your Second Brain in NotebookLM — a private, source-grounded thinking partner trained on your own work. Session 1 of Clone Yourself.
Aired THU, JUL 16 · 12:00PM ET
Your Second Brain learns to write and speak like you — a durable voice model you can reuse.
Aired THU, JUL 23 · 12:00PM ET
Your Fence: decide what's safe to put into AI, and what stays behind the line.
Aired THU, JUL 30 · 12:00PM ET
Your Reach: turn one you into many outputs without losing the through-line.
Aired THU, AUG 6 · 12:00PM ET
Pick the right task and map it end-to-end before you build — the single move that saves the most time later.
Aired THU, AUG 13 · 12:00PM ET
Lead adoption without fear: how to bring a team along so the tools actually get used.
Aired THU, AUG 20 · 12:00PM ET
Clear the backlog in twenty minutes, and keep the reply rule that did it.
Aired THU, AUG 27 · 12:00PM ET
Leave the meeting with owners and dates instead of a wall of notes.
Aired THU, SEP 10 · 12:00PM ET
A one-page status report in five minutes, and a skeleton you reuse every week.
Aired THU, SEP 17 · 12:00PM ET
Ask your own notes and files a real question, and get an answer you can check against the source.
Aired THU, SEP 24 · 12:00PM ET
Let AI sort the inbox into what needs doing, time blocked, verifying or a decision — then you make the call.
Aired THU, OCT 1 · 12:00PM ET
Run one last check on anything about to leave your desk, so nothing unverified goes out.
Aired THU, OCT 8 · 12:00PM ET
Turn the same five support questions into an FAQ you actually trust.
Releases THU, OCT 15 · 12:00PM ET
A proposal draft in twenty minutes, with the scope written down and the pricing left to you.
Releases THU, OCT 22 · 12:00PM ET
Everything you owe people this week, on one page you can actually read.
Releases THU, OCT 29 · 12:00PM ET
Write down what AI may touch and what it must never touch — and save it where the tool reads it.
Releases THU, NOV 5 · 12:00PM ET
Find where your hours actually go, then pick the one drag worth removing first.
Releases THU, NOV 12 · 12:00PM ET
Hand a task over with enough written down that it comes back right the first time.
Releases THU, NOV 19 · 12:00PM ET
Turn a habit you keep re-explaining into a saved instruction the tool follows every time.
Releases THU, DEC 3 · 12:00PM ET
Show what the work used to cost and what it costs now, in numbers you can defend.
Releases THU, DEC 10 · 12:00PM ET
Start January with the rules, the habits and the saved instructions already in place.
Releases THU, DEC 17 · 12:00PM ET
Run a multi-step sequence that pauses for human approval at the right moments.
Releases THU, JAN 7 · 12:00PM ET
The handful of numbers that actually tell you AI is working.
Releases THU, JAN 14 · 12:00PM ET
From a short brief to an on-brand visual you can ship.
Releases THU, JAN 21 · 12:00PM ET
Turn tacit knowledge into a durable SOP the team can follow.
Releases THU, JAN 28 · 12:00PM ET
What's likely next — and how to plan for it without overreacting.
Releases THU, FEB 4 · 12:00PM ET
A personalized coach that meets each learner where they are.
Releases THU, FEB 11 · 12:00PM ET
Flagship Tracks
Three 10-minute reads that tell you what to fix first.
What's inside
You'll walk out with: a shortlist of what to fix first.
Stop reinventing prompts for the work you repeat.
What's inside
You'll walk out with: a saved, reusable prompt set.
One-off prompts are fine for one-off work. This session shows you how to chain prompts into a reliable, repeatable system — with a checkpoint where a person approves before it acts.
What's inside
You'll walk out with: one saved, reusable prompt chain with a human checkpoint.
Facing a stack of reports and memos? This session helps you read, compare, and synthesize them — then recast the result for whoever needs it, and check it before you trust it.
What's inside
You'll walk out with: one reusable read-compare-synthesize workflow.
Use AI to think harder, not just faster — to pressure-test a real decision before you commit.
What's inside
You'll walk out with: one decision — framed, tabled, stress-tested, and made.
AI is fast and useful — and sometimes confidently wrong. This session shows you where it’s likely to slip and exactly what to do about it.
What's inside
You'll walk out with: a one-page rule your whole team can follow.
Take AI from a personal habit to a team system — with three Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows you can put to work this week, and a person approving before anything goes team-wide.
What's inside
You'll walk out with: a safe team rollout plan.
Run a 30-day starter pilot with tools you already pay for.
What's inside
You'll walk out with: a documented pilot and a real hours-saved number.
Free to play. Facilitator kits are members-only.
What's actually in here
6
free micro lessons
11
tools & canvases
13
applied courses
11
live sessions & replays
Every Thursday brings a new work session, then it is kept here — the session canvas, the fillable templates, and the frameworks. Free stays free. A person always makes the final call.
Buy once · $67–$147
Each one is a finished thing you keep — no subscription, no expiry. Members get the whole shelf.
Bought one in the last 7 days? Reply to your receipt and we'll credit it toward your Library membership.
The replays are free on YouTube. The workshop isn’t. Membership gets you the full interactive session canvas, fillable templates, and your own progress dashboard. $357/year or $39/month.
Session replays are free to watch.
$357/year or $39/month.
