The question behind the question Before an experiment can ask whether an act of practice is delegable, someone has to turn that act into something an agent can actually run. That turning is a methodology in its own right — and in this Lab it is tested as hard as the delegation itself, because if…
The same loop, every time Every experiment in this Lab runs the same five steps. The loop is deliberately plain, because the rigour is the point: an experiment that changes its rules is a story. Isolate. Name the act in one sentence. Not “programme management” — the triage of incoming issues into escalate, absorb, or…
The map this Lab is filling in Five capabilities, four practices, twenty cells. Each cell will eventually hold a verdict — delegable, assisted, or human-only — earned by experiment under the Lab’s method. This page is the live state of that map, updated as verdicts land. A new version of this page is published each…
The claim under test This is a laboratory, not a blog. It exists to test one claim: that AI agents can perform real parts of a practitioner’s work — starting with the four practices this library is built on: Transformation, Portfolio, Programme, Leadership — and that the practitioner who builds and directs those agents is…
One test for every note No experiment runs in this Lab for curiosity alone. Each one must move at least one of four questions, and a note that moves none of them is not published. The questions are few on purpose: a programme that asks everything answers nothing. The delegation boundary Which acts of each…
Designed, not yet run Nothing below is a result. These are the first three expeditions in the Lab’s backlog: designed in full, predictions pre-committed, instruments specified. Field notes will follow the runs and will describe only what actually happens. Predictions are put on record before the run precisely so the run can contradict them. Expedition…
The fitting room Somewhere right now, someone is being fitted for the future. They are sitting in a training session about a tool they did not choose, learning a workflow designed by people who have never seen their work, being measured against a definition of “AI-ready” written in a vendor’s product roadmap. They are being…