Resources
Frameworks, playbooks, and guides.
Free downloads from Paul's research, advisory work, and MIT teaching. Built for leaders who need to act, not just understand.
Playbook
AI-Driven Enterprise Transformation Playbook
Lead the AI transformation — in 18 steps from CEO to board-ready impact.
A 41-page self-serve plan for CEOs, presidents, and boards of 10–250-person organizations who know they need to change — and don't know where to start. No consultant required.
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Workbook
AI Opportunities Assessment
Find your three AI Quick Wins in 90 minutes
A printable workbook that walks your leadership team through the AIDE Opportunities Audit — the same framework Paul uses with boards and PE-backed companies to separate real AI quick wins from $200k distractions.
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E-Book
AI-Driven Entrepreneurship Educators e-Book
Rebuild your entrepreneurship program for the AI decade.
A strategic guide for entrepreneurship educators and program leaders rebuilding curricula, accelerators, and incubators to graduate AI-Driven Enterprise (AIDE) founders — without scrapping what already works.
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Workbook
15x Startup Tactics Workbooks
Plan, test, and launch your venture with 15 ready-to-use startup workbooks.
The 15 fill-in-the-blanks workbooks Paul uses with MIT founders to run primary market research, set OKRs and KPIs, and turn raw conversations into a venture plan — straight from Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics.
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Slide Deck
2,000 Slides for Entrepreneurship Educators
Teach Disciplined Entrepreneurship without rebuilding the deck.
The full slide library Paul uses to teach Disciplined Entrepreneurship at MIT — the 24 Steps, sector breakouts, pitch design, and primary market research, all illustrated and ready to project. Drop into your syllabus or remix for your program.
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Workbook
AI Culture and Competency JD Audit
Audit one job description and find out if you're hiring for 2020 or 2030.
A printable audit for CEOs, CHROs, and hiring managers that stress-tests one real job posting against the AI-Driven Enterprise. Drawn from Part III of No One Works Here (Wiley, August 2026), it ends with a Delta Score that tells you exactly how far your hiring is from where it needs to be.
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Reference Guide
AI Leadership Reference Guide
The full map of AI-Driven Enterprise leadership, on five pages that live on your desk.
A desk reference for board members and executives leading the transition to the AI-Driven Enterprise: the mental models, metrics, and governance structures in one place. Drawn from No One Works Here (Wiley, August 2026) and the AIDE Institute's benchmarking work.
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Worksheet
AI Role Reversal
What if AI directed your people? Four questions to find out.
A one-page worksheet on Stage 5 of shared agency, where AI systems coordinate the organization and humans execute at full capacity. Drawn from No One Works Here (Wiley, August 2026): the shift from 80% figuring out and 20% doing, to 5% validating and 95% executing.
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Workbook
AI Decisions and Roadmap
Rank your twelve competing AI priorities. Then put budget behind the top three.
A two-part workbook for executives making the AI investment tradeoffs explicit: force-rank twelve strategic priorities, then build the talent development plan that funds them. From the Actions section of No One Works Here (Wiley, August 2026).
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Workbook
AI Personal Role Reevaluation
Put AI agents on your org chart and recalculate your revenue per employee.
A personal workbook for leaders: audit your own job description for AI delegation, design your agent architecture, redesign your team's org chart with agents as first-class nodes, and recalculate the economics. From No One Works Here (Wiley, August 2026).
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Dictionary
An Executive's Dictionary for the AI-Driven Enterprise Era
Don't get caught in a board meeting without knowing these terms.
306 plainly defined terms across tech, business, and risk: the vocabulary every board member, executive, and leader of an AI-Driven Enterprise needs. The companion glossary to No One Works Here (Wiley, August 2026), small enough to keep in your pocket.
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Architecture
Sourcery: A Personal AI Infrastructure Architecture
See the personal AI system that reads Paul's world and acts on it.
An interactive walkthrough of Sourcery — the local-first AI infrastructure Paul runs on a Mac Mini. Fourteen external services flow through a prompt-injection gate into a Markdown corpus that becomes both a knowledge graph and a hybrid search index, which roughly fourteen agents reason over and act on.
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Flashcards
AI Glossary Flashcards: Business Deck
Drill the 90 business terms every AI-era executive needs, one card at a time.
A printable deck of 90 flashcards covering the business side of the AI-Driven Enterprise, from the macro shift and new metrics to organizational archetypes and the risks and traps. The first of three expansion packs that complete the No One Works Here glossary (Wiley, August 2026).
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Flashcards
AI Glossary Flashcards: Technical Deck
Drill the 127 technical AI terms every executive should recognize, one card at a time.
A printable deck of 127 flashcards on the technical foundations of the AI-Driven Enterprise: models, training, inference, agents, retrieval, infrastructure, and data. The second of three expansion packs that complete the No One Works Here glossary (Wiley, August 2026).
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Flashcards
AI Glossary Flashcards: Risk Deck
Drill the 94 AI risk terms that keep boards up at night, one card at a time.
A printable deck of 94 flashcards on AI risk across five categories: inference, output, training-data, agentic, and non-technical. The third expansion pack that completes the No One Works Here glossary (Wiley, August 2026).
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Claude Skill
Executive Persona Builder Claude Skill
Teach Claude to sound like you before you run anything else.
An interactive Claude skill that mines your memory, connectors, and real writing, researches your company, and builds your persona.md and custom instructions with you. Installs in claude.ai, the desktop app, or Claude Code.
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Claude Skill
AIDE Opportunities Audit Claude Skill
Build a complete, prioritized matrix of your AI and agentic AI opportunities.
An interactive Claude skill that interviews you about your company, your regulatory risk, and your board's actual AI literacy, then runs the full opportunity funnel from No One Works Here.
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Claude Skill
AIDE Strategic Framework Claude Skill
Work the three-pillar framework into a board-ready strategic outlook.
A Claude skill that reads your 10-K, investor decks, or website, interviews you on where the transformation actually stands, and works the three-pillar framework for developing an AI-driven enterprise in any sector.
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Claude Skill
State of the Art Org Chart Claude Skill
Map your organization as human nodes and AI agent nodes, then model the shift.
A Claude skill that studies your company, builds your org chart in an interactive canvas, deploys AI agents into it, and projects the shift from Human Time to System Time.
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Claude Skill
Agentic AI Master Playbook Claude Skill
Consolidate everything into one playbook and a one-page board narrative.
The capstone Claude skill: it pulls together everything the other skills produced, adds a reflection on your own learning journey, and builds one personalized playbook for you and your organization.
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Claude Skill
Corporate Entrepreneurship Audit Claude Skill
Audit your organization's capacity to innovate, and pick the vehicle that fits.
A Claude skill for any existing organization: for-profit, non-profit, government, academic, or religious. Keep making money now while ensuring you can make money in the future.
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Claude Skill
Managed Agent Builder Claude Skill
Define every part of an AI agent, then create it in the Claude Console.
A guided Claude skill built on one idea: an agent is a hire, and its creation prompt is the job description, authority limits, and performance plan. It teaches every decision as you make it.
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Claude Skill
Agent Definition Review Claude Skill
Find your agent's weakest layer before it finds you.
An operator's review of a finished agent creation prompt, run as a Claude skill: six layers force-ranked, every permitted action audited, and a verdict on single agent versus team.
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Claude Skill
Revenue per Employee Audit Claude Skill
Twenty years of your revenue per employee, sourced from your own 10-Ks.
A simple, honest Claude skill for public companies: it hunts down roughly twenty years of Form 10-Ks by web search, pulls revenue and employee count per year with citations, and teaches the ratio in operator language.
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Claude Skill
Job Postings Scan Claude Skill
Every open role your company has posted online, found, read, and turned into one inventory.
The foundation Claude skill the hiring audits build on: it finds your careers page and the ATS behind it, paginates to the very end, and reads every open posting in full.
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Claude Skill
AI Hiring Culture Audit Claude Skill
What you think your postings recruit for, against what every open role actually says.
A Claude skill that locks in your three predictions before any results appear, then shows the gap on one printed page. Is your company hiring for the AI-Driven Enterprise or for the world that no longer exists?
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Claude Skill
Competency & Culture JD Audit Claude Skill
Stress-test one real job posting against the future, then send the letter.
Paul Cheek's Competency and Culture Audit workbook, run as a Claude skill on one posting your company has live right now, in the workbook's exact language.
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Claude Skill
AI Talent Priorities Claude Skill
Force-rank the twelve competing priorities, then fund the talent plan that matches.
Paul Cheek's Talent and Priorities workbook, run as a Claude skill in its exact language. A dozen things matter in the transition to AI and the budget covers maybe three; this makes the tradeoffs explicit.
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Claude Skill
Job Description Rewrite Claude Skill
Decompose your own role, delegate to agents, and rewrite your job description.
Paul Cheek's Personal Role Re-evaluation workbook, run as a Claude skill on your own job. For every responsibility you mark human-only, you must defend why. If the defense does not hold, it moves to AI.
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Claude Skill
Build My Board of Directors Claude Skill
Research every board member in depth and build the modeled roster of your boardroom.
A Claude skill that identifies your board from proxy statements and governance pages, then runs parallel research processes, one per member, and finishes the picture with what only you know.
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Claude Skill
Ask the Board Claude Skill
Ask your question, hear every board member answer in persona, then watch the room run 100 ways.
A Claude skill that rehearses your next board conversation on the roster from Build My Board of Directors: every member sounded individually in persona, then the whole room simulated across speaking orders.
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Claude Skill
Build My C-Suite Claude Skill
Research every executive in depth and build the modeled roster of your leadership team.
A Claude skill that identifies your CEO and senior leadership team from leadership pages, press, and LinkedIn, then runs parallel research processes, one per executive, and finishes the picture with what only you know.
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Claude Skill
Ask the C-Suite Claude Skill
Ask your question, hear every executive answer in persona, then watch the room run 100 ways.
A Claude skill that rehearses your next leadership team conversation on the roster from Build My C-Suite: every executive sounded individually in persona, then the whole room simulated across speaking orders.
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