The Job Card. Free.
Five lines. One AI hire.
The one-page template we fill out for every system we build. Use it on your worst process.
Email Chris for the cardOne page. Yours to keep.
JOB CARD
The Task
One sentence, one verb.
The People
Who does it today, and how many hours a week.
The Systems
Every system the work touches, and who has access to each.
The Decisions
Where a person has to judge, and the calls a person always keeps.
The Result
The one number that proves it worked.
AI is not a project. It's a hire.
95%
of enterprise AI pilots produced no measurable return, MIT found. The few that worked gave AI one narrow job.
Source: MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025.
A project gets
- A budget
- A steering committee
- A status update
A hire gets
- A job
- A first Monday
- Somebody who checks their work
In a real shop, a job card travels with the part: what the job is, who touched it, what came out.
Five lines. Each one does a job.
One card per process. Pull any line out and it stops being a diagnostic.
The Task
Defines it
What to write
One sentence. One verb. Start to finish, no software words.
The test
If you can't hand that sentence to a temp on their first morning, it isn't clear enough yet.
The People
Costs it
What to write
Who does it today, how many hours a week, and what it keeps them from. Then who checks the work.
The test
It's usually the same person twice. A name and a number, or it's still an idea.
The Systems
Blocks it
What to write
Every system the work touches, and who has access to each. Mark each one open, locked, or off limits.
The test
If nobody can name the person who grants access to a system, getting that access is the project.
The Decisions
Governs it
What to write
Every point where a person has to judge, the rule for each one, and the calls a person always keeps.
The test
No judgment anywhere means buy a script. Judgment at every step means it's two jobs, not one.
The Result
Proves it
What to write
One number, measured on live data, before and after, with a date on it.
The test
It has to be a number somebody already reports to somebody else. One invented for the project is invented for the excuse.
Then we finish it with you.
- The card lands in your inbox.
- Fill in what you can for your worst process.
- Bring it to a 30-minute call. We finish it together, and you keep it either way.
Hand it to another firm and it's still a better brief than most get after a paid discovery phase.
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