What we built
Three starting paths now lead into the existing experiment brief, AI team planner, and restart workbench. Readers can explicitly save a plan, return to it, and keep an evidence log. Waymaker supplies the shared founder stories and Builder DNA scoring.
What we know—and what we don’t
The software is available to try. That is an implementation milestone, not evidence that it saves time or earns money. We have not yet recorded five participant sessions or a comparable manual-versus-AI timing study. There is no measured productivity multiplier to publish.
A five-person pilot
Invite five willing adults who have a real small project or recurring task. Include people seeking side income, more time, and a restart. Explain that this is a usability test, participation is optional, and feedback will not enroll them in a workshop or email list. Ask separately before recording or publishing quotations.
- Ask what they want to accomplish. Let them choose a path without coaching.
- Give them 15 minutes to make a plan, save it, leave the page, and find it again.
- Ask: “What will you do next?” and “What did you expect that you could not find?”
- With permission, follow up after a week: did they try the task, what happened, and what got in the way?
Use participant codes P1–P5. Record unaided completion, assistance, confusion, and return success. Five observations identify usability issues; they do not establish demand or a reliable conversion rate.
The first measured AI workflow case study
Choose one repeatable task with a fixed quality standard. Use comparable inputs for a manual run and an assisted run. Record every attempt, including failed outputs. Separate human effort from elapsed waiting time. Count prompts, briefing, review, corrections, setup, and tool costs. Retain the accepted output and a redacted prompt trail.
Publish the task, quality criteria, observations, limitations, and actual timings together. If the output is not equivalent, do not present a productivity ratio. Show first-run setup separately from a clearly labeled reuse scenario.
Download pilot and case-study field notes
Keep the observations together
Open the workflow run log to record real timings and export a case-study draft. Use the pilot observation worksheet for P1–P5. Both save only when you choose to keep a copy in this browser.
Try the same path
Choose a starting point · Open My Experiment · Read Ashley’s field journal