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Start with practical tools available today. Developmental work and longer-term products are separated so readiness is easy to understand.
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These resources are ready for public use within the purpose and boundaries stated on each page.
CAP-5 Self-Assessment
A public, guest-first five-question assessment for making preferred cognitive-approach patterns more visible. Responses remain in the browser session by default.
Take CAP-5Response Fit Check
Four reflection questions for distinguishing what can be known before acting, what must be learned through action, what must remain stable, and how much can safely be committed.
Use the checkNavV Public Orientation
A visual reference for the movement from stakeholder need through requirements, functions, architecture, realization, verification, validation, and transition.
Open the graphicIn active development
These tools are being designed or tested. They are not yet public working instruments. Opportunities to participate will be announced through the updates list when appropriate.
Team-Building V Canvas
A bounded V for establishing what a stakeholder-valid, capable, authorized, and sufficiently resourced team must be able to do before selecting people.
Function / Subfunction Guide
Prompts for defining what the work must do and separating functions from roles, job titles, tools, and preferred solutions.
Stakeholder Validity Canvas
A structured way to identify users, maintainers, funders, approvers, affected communities, and those whose access is required for meaningful validation.
Team Cognitive Access Map
A guided view of which cognitive contributions are accessible to a team and where the work may need additional access.
NavV Canvas
A full-cycle working canvas that keeps need, requirements, functions, architecture, realization, evidence, and transition connected.
Requirements Definition Worksheet
A practical worksheet for translating stakeholder need into conditions the solution must satisfy before design choices are locked in.
Planned product families
The roadmap is intentionally brief. These concepts remain future work until they enter active development.
Cognitive partnering
Guidance for co-leaders and partners using CAP-5 language in consequential shared decisions.
Structured disagreement and repair
Bounded practices for making disagreement informative without reducing work-level differences to personality.
Validation and sustainment
Tools for intended-use evidence, transition readiness, feedback, modernization, and return loops.
Product-first.
Try what is available, learn from it, and return as the toolkit grows.
Start with CAP-5