AI Frameworks Library
Practical mental models for understanding AI capabilities, prioritizing projects, and building organizational intelligence.
By Christian Ward, author of the Be Datable newsletter
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AI & Business Strategy
How AI reshapes competitive positioning, software markets, and business models.
Evaluate & Adopt AI
Understand what AI can do, cut through vendor hype, and map your adoption journey.
Agency vs Intelligence
The Threshold Principle: Why action beats planning, but only after you clear the bar
Three-Layer Stack
Agents, Assistants, and Automations: What vendors call them vs. what they actually do
Five Stages of AI Adoption
Where are you on the journey from simple prompts to workflow automation?
Prioritize & Optimize
Decide where to focus, manage context, and classify the work AI should do.
Frequency-Complexity Matrix
Stop asking which AI model to use. Start asking how often you'll use it and how complex it needs to be.
TimeShift
How breakthrough innovations restructure human productive hours. It's happening again.
Memory & Context
The Art of Forgetting: Why organizational intelligence requires curation, not accumulation
Query Classifiers
The 8 Query Spaces: How what you ask determines what you get
What's Inside Each Framework
Visual Diagrams
Original visualizations from the blog posts that make complex concepts intuitive
How to Use It
Specific steps for applying each framework to your AI tools, business, and career
Self-Assessment
Questions to diagnose where you and your organization currently stand
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