Frameworks & Tools
The thinking from our papers, distilled into figures you can use — each with a takeaway and a link to where it comes from.
The Four Pathways
How organizations adopt AI in learning — from automating old training to democratizing the approaches that always worked.
Audit where your AI spend lands. If it's making courses faster (Pathway 1), you're optimizing the least-effective model. Aim Pathway 4 — scale coaching and experiential learning to everyone.
from Your $5 Million AI Investment Just Bought You a Faster Typewriter · §2
The Infiltration Strategy
The ten stages by which AI quietly takes over learning — simulations infiltrate, coaches break free, and the curriculum inverts.
Use it to locate where your organization is on the curve. Each stage is a small, fundable step; the strategic move is to see the whole arc and skip ahead deliberately.
from The Infiltration Strategy · §4–6
The Modal Coaching Framework
Effective coaching is a repertoire of modes, each with trigger conditions and counter-indications — and the right one shifts as the learner changes.
When designing an AI coach, specify each mode's trigger AND its counter-indication. The counter-indications are what stop a coach from doing the right thing at the wrong moment.
from The Modal AI Coach · §"A Framework for Trigger Specification"