Part 01
How to use Issue Space on your own project
A self-guided short guide for one reader working on one live AI issue, with prompts for symptoms, dimensions, pattern recognition, reframing, and next action.
Companion Packet
Issue Space Toolkit
A direct-edition companion packet with an Issue Space canvas, workshop script, and PDF download.
This toolkit is designed to move you from understanding the method to actually using it. It works best with one live issue, not with your whole AI strategy at once.
The packet combines three practical pieces: a short self-guided AI project diagnosis guide, an Issue Space canvas, and a 30-minute workshop script for team use. Together they provide a compact operational companion to the book.
How To Use This Packet
Move from method understanding to one real diagnosis pass.
You do not need a workshop, a consultant, or a full transformation program to start. You do need one real complaint, some honesty about what is happening, and about 45-60 minutes of focused attention.
The toolkit is meant to sharpen the next move. It is not a substitute for technical validation, legal review, or domain expertise. It improves the diagnosis before those other decisions move too far.
Packet Contents
Three parts that take you from reflection to use.
The toolkit is intentionally short and practical. It is designed to keep the method close to live organizational friction instead of turning it into abstract strategy language.
Part 02
Issue Space Canvas
A compact working surface for writing the trigger issue, mapping evidence, testing each dimension, and reframing the diagnosis before deciding what to do next.
Part 03
Issue Space 30-minute workshop script
A facilitation shortcut for small teams that need a structured first pass without turning the session into a long transformation theatre exercise.
When To Use It
Use the toolkit when the complaint is real but the diagnosis is still thin.
- The team keeps repeating the same complaint.
- A pilot is stuck between demo and scale.
- Leaders want action but the diagnosis still feels thin.
- Different groups describe the same issue in different ways.
- You suspect the visible problem is only part of the real one.
Good starting points
"We need more AI talent." "Users do not trust the system." "We cannot scale the pilot." "Legal keeps slowing the project down."
What to gather first
Delays, rework, low adoption, budget friction, model errors, workflow complaints, or a missing owner. You are diagnosing a live problem, not creating a polished story.
Boundary
The toolkit sharpens diagnosis. It does not replace other forms of review.
Do not use this packet as a substitute for technical validation, legal review, or domain expertise. Use it to improve the diagnosis before those other decisions harden into procurement, hiring, governance, or scale commitments.
Download
Apply the companion packet to one current issue.
The packet is designed for one diagnosis pass at a time. Work through the issue, record the evidence behind each interpretation, and return to the book when a wider methodological explanation is needed.