The canvas. Nine boxes, one page, a 90-minute session with your leadership team.
One page · 5 formats
The Canvas
PDF, PNG, PowerPoint and Excalidraw. Print it A3, project it, or edit it. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: use it, share it, teach with it.
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7 pages · workshop-ready
The Field Guide
Run your own 90-minute session: the agenda, the facilitation rules, 1-5 scoring anchors for all 14 factors, and a complete worked example.
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Installable · for Claude
The Skill
The canvas that fills itself. An installable AI skill: it interviews you, or reads your meeting notes, and produces your completed, scored canvas.
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Where this comes from
I spent twenty years building the automation layer that ran the web-hosting industry: EUR 240M in ARR, a EUR 1.5B exit, fifteen acquisitions. In 2024 I started applying that playbook to AI, at European software companies.
The method behind this canvas came out of real engagements: at one EUR 100M+ European software company it meant eleven discovery sessions, thirty-six opportunities scored, and a working system in the first thirty days. When a frontier lab switched off two models mid-engagement, nothing had to be rebuilt. Both lessons, the scoring and the independence, are in these nine boxes.
The canvas is free because knowing where your AI value sits should not cost money. Executing on it is a different job, and that one we do for a living.
Lukas Hertig · Created in Switzerland, where one-page canvases apparently come from. :)
A self-run canvas gives you a ranked, argued-over list. Calibrated scoring, a board-defensible ROI model, a data classification, and a working prototype on your real stack are the 30-day audit.
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