One method, five levels of responsibility

Every book applies the same four quadrants: Structure it, Understand it, Choose tools, Build it. What changes from Level 1 to Level 5 is who is affected when it goes wrong: at Level 1 only you, at Level 5 everyone who relies on what you run.

How to read the matrix

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Use

Get value from AI in your own work

Use tracks arranged by responsibility level.
TrackL1UserOnly youL2Power userYour team sees a bad document or a wrong figureL3BuilderColleagues depend on something you builtL4IntegratorCompany or lab systems and real data are in the loopL5OperatorWork stops when it breaks, and it must survive you leaving
Track 01Foundations & judgementT01-L01

From Idea to Working Result: The Four-Quadrant Method

by Opus 5.5Not started12 min read		T01-L02

Check AI Output Before Your Team Relies on It

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min readThinking Clearly with AI16 min read		T01-L03

Build the Smallest Thing Your Colleagues Can Run Without You

by Opus 5.5Not started19 min read		Not offered at this levelNot offered at this level
Track 17Structure & understandNot offered at this levelT17-L02

Frame a Problem Your Team Agrees On

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T17-L03

Explore What Already Exists Before You Build

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read		T17-L04

Run a Pilot with Real Users and Real Data

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read		T17-L05

Decide Which Problems Deserve Building

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read
Track 02Chat & assistantsT02-L01

Get Answers You Can Use from a Chatbot

by Opus 5.5Not started13 min read		T02-L02

Set Up Projects a Colleague Can Pick Up

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T02-L03

Build a Shared Assistant Your Team Can Test and Take Over

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read		T02-L04

A Self-Hosted Assistant Your Team Can Use Safely

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read		T02-L05

Run One Assistant for a Whole Institute or Company, and Hand It Over

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read
Track 03Prompting & contextT03-L01

Write a Prompt You Can Reuse

by Opus 5.5Not started13 min read		T03-L02

Build a Context Packet Your Team Can Rerun

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T03-L03

Put a Test Set Under the Prompt Your Team Depends On

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read		T03-L04

Release Prompt Changes Through Review, Tests and a Way Back

by Opus 5.5Not started22 min read		T03-L05

Keep a Production Prompt Healthy for Months, and Hand It Over

by Opus 5.5Not started21 min read
Track 09Create mediaT09-L01

Make One Image or Narrated Clip, and Label It

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T09-L02

Keep One Look Across Your Team's Images

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read		T09-L03

Build a Caption Pipeline Your Team Can Rerun Every Week

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read		T09-L04

Transcribe Recordings That Must Stay in the Building

by Opus 5.5Not started23 min read		T09-L05

Keep Every Published AI Image, Voice and Video Labelled, Cleared and Traceable

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read
Track 15AI in researchT15-L01

Use AI in Your Research and Say Exactly How

by Opus 5.5Not started13 min read		T15-L02

Record an AI Step So a Co-Author Can Rerun It

by Opus 5.5Not started16 min read		T15-L03

Get an AI Step on Participant Data Reviewed, Then Build It Inside the Approval

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read		T15-L04

Set Up AI for a Whole Research Group

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read		T15-L05

Keep Your Group's AI Use Compliant and Running After You Leave

by Opus 5.5Not started21 min read
Track 18AI for lab dataT18-L01

Count Cells With a Ready-Made Model and Check It by Hand

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read		T18-L02

Predict a Protein Structure and Read Its Confidence Honestly

by Opus 5.5Not started16 min read		T18-L03

Build a Cell-Counting Pipeline Your Group Can Rerun and Check

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read		Not offered at this levelNot offered at this level
Track 16Choose toolsT16-L01

Pick the Right Tool for One Task by Trying It

by Opus 5.5Not started13 min read		T16-L02

Choose Tools Your Team Can Use, and Afford

by Opus 5.5Not started16 min read		T16-L03

Test a Tool on Your Own Work Before Your Team Depends on It

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read		T16-L04

Replace a Tool Without Losing Your Work

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read		T16-L05

Keep Your Toolset Useful

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read

Build

Make something that runs

Build tracks arranged by responsibility level.
TrackL1UserOnly youL2Power userYour team sees a bad document or a wrong figureL3BuilderColleagues depend on something you builtL4IntegratorCompany or lab systems and real data are in the loopL5OperatorWork stops when it breaks, and it must survive you leaving
Track 04Your documents & knowledgeT04-L01

Ask Your Own Documents and Check Every Citation

by Opus 5.5Not started13 min read		T04-L02

Curate a Document Set Your Team Can Ask

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T04-L03

Test and Fix the Document Assistant Your Group Relies On

by Opus 5.5Not started22 min read		T04-L04

Connect an Assistant to Real Documents Without Widening Anyone's Access

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read		T04-L05

Keep a Connected Knowledge Base Current, and Prove a Withdrawn Document Is Gone

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read
Track 05AutomationT05-L01

Your First Automation: Build It, Break It, Switch It Off

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T05-L02NEW

Put AI in the Middle of a Workflow, and Check Every Answer

by Opus 5.5Not started13 min read		T05-L03NEW

Chain Checked Steps Into a Weekly Digest Your Team Can Rerun

by Opus 5.5Not started21 min read		T05-L04

Make an Automation Safe to Fail Before It Touches Real Systems

by Opus 5.5Not started22 min read		T05-L05

Keep Your Automations Running for Months, and After You Leave

by Opus 5.5Not started21 min read
Track 06Build appsT06-L01NEW

Build a Small Browser Tool You Will Actually Use

by Opus 5.5Not started14 min read		T06-L02

Build a Small Shared Tool From a Prompt, and Test It With a Colleague

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T06-L03

Turn Your Team App Into One Colleagues Can Depend On

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read		T06-L04

Put Your Team App on the Organisation's Own Database, and Prove You Can Restore It

by Opus 5.5Not started22 min read		T06-L05

Run the App Others Depend On, and Hand It Over

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read
Track 07AgentsNot offered at this levelT07-L02

Hand a Task to an Agent, and Check What It Did

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T07-L03NEW

Build a Small Agent Your Colleagues Can Run, Test and Stop

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read		T07-L04

Connect an Agent to a Real Mailbox Without Handing It the Keys

by Opus 5.5Not started22 min read		T07-L05

Keep a Team of Agents Running for Months, With Memory a Person Approves

by Opus 5.5Not started19 min read
Track 21Delegate desk workT21-L01

Start With OpenWork: One Folder, One Task, and a Look at Every Change

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T21-L02

Turn a Task You Repeat Into a Skill a Colleague Can Run

by Opus 5.5Not started14 min read		T21-L03

Share Skills and Connections With Your Team, and Decide Who Gets What

by Opus 5.5Not started19 min read		Not offered at this levelNot offered at this level
Track 20AI harnessesT20-L01NEW

Same Model, Different Harness: See What the Program Around the AI Changes

by Opus 5.5Not started13 min read		T20-L02NEW

Choose a Harness by Testing It on Five of Your Own Tasks

by Opus 5.5Not started12 min read		T20-L03NEW

Run a Harness on a Model You Control: Local Server or Team Gateway

by Opus 5.5Not started14 min read		T20-L04NEW

Set Up a Harness So a Mistake Stays Small: Container, Rules, Keys and Network

by Opus 5.5Not started14 min read		T20-L05NEW

Run Coding Agents for a Team: Shared Rules, a Test Set, Nightly Jobs and No Lock-In

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read
Track 08Write codeT08-L01NEW

Start With OpenCode: Set It Up, Change One Line, and Undo It

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read		T08-L02NEW

Get a Script Your Colleague Can Rerun, Without Being a Developer

by Opus 5.5Not started21 min read		T08-L03NEW

Write the Spec First, So an AI Assistant Can Change Code Your Team Depends On

by Opus 5.5Not started29 min read		T08-L04NEW

Use OpenCode Desktop on Your Organisation's Real Repositories

by Opus 5.5Not started27 min read		T08-L05NEW

Run Automatic Checks, an AI Reviewer and Releases You Can Roll Back

by Opus 5.5Not started34 min read
Track 19Share & review codeT19-L01

Keep Your Files in Gitea and Get Any Version Back

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T19-L02NEW

Work on a Shared Gitea Repository From Your Computer With OpenCode

by Opus 5.5Not started16 min read		T19-L03

Propose, Review and Merge Changes With Pull Requests

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T19-L04

Check Every Change Automatically, Release Versions and Tell the Lab

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read		T19-L05NEW

Run Your Organisation's Gitea: Teams, Safe Sign-In and a Restore You Have Tested

by Opus 5.5Not started23 min read
Track 10Data & analysisT10-L01

Ask a Spreadsheet a Question and Check Which Rows It Used

by Opus 5.5Not started14 min read		T10-L02

Clean a Messy Export Once, So Your Team Can Refresh It

by Opus 5.5Not started17 min read		T10-L03

Build an Analysis Your Colleague Can Rerun and Get the Same Numbers

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read		T10-L04

Connect Your Analysis to a Live System, and Stop Bad Data Before It Reaches Anyone

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read		T10-L05

Keep a Data Pipeline Right for Years, and Trace Any Published Number to Its Source

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read
Track 14Connect your toolsNot offered at this levelT14-L02

Brief Your Team From the Shared Drive, Through a Connector

by Opus 5.5Not started14 min read		T14-L03

Turn a Connector Brief Into a Routine Colleagues Can Rerun

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read		T14-L04

Build a Read-Only Connector for a System Your Assistant Can't Reach Yet

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read		T14-L05

Run Your Organisation's Connectors: One List, Per-Person Access, a Log and a Clean Exit

by Opus 5.5Not started19 min read

Run

Operate it yourself

Run tracks arranged by responsibility level.
TrackL1UserOnly youL2Power userYour team sees a bad document or a wrong figureL3BuilderColleagues depend on something you builtL4IntegratorCompany or lab systems and real data are in the loopL5OperatorWork stops when it breaks, and it must survive you leaving
Track 11Run your own AIT11-L01

Run an AI Model on Your Own Laptop, Offline

by Opus 5.5Not started14 min read		T11-L02

A Local Model Your Tools Can Call

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T11-L03

Local AI Apps Your Colleagues Can Rely On

by Opus 5.5Not started24 min read		T11-L04

Put Your Team's Assistant on a Server Colleagues Can Reach

by Opus 5.5Not started23 min read		T11-L05

Keep a Shared Model Server Fast, Affordable and Running

by Opus 5.5Not started21 min read

Govern & spread

Make it safe and make it stick

Govern & spread tracks arranged by responsibility level.
TrackL1UserOnly youL2Power userYour team sees a bad document or a wrong figureL3BuilderColleagues depend on something you builtL4IntegratorCompany or lab systems and real data are in the loopL5OperatorWork stops when it breaks, and it must survive you leaving
Track 12Security, privacy & governanceT12-L01

Decide What You May Paste Into AI at Work

by Opus 5.5Not started12 min read		T12-L02

Clean the Copy, Label the Result, Spot the Trap

by Opus 5.5Not started15 min read		T12-L03

Give an Unattended Workflow Limits and a Stop a Colleague Can Use

by Opus 5.5Not started22 min read		T12-L04

Lock Down a Self-Hosted AI Service Before Real Data Goes In

by Opus 5.5Not started20 min read		T12-L05

Keep One List of Every AI System Your Team Runs, and Make It Survive You

by Opus 5.5Not started19 min read
Track 13Adoption & enablementNot offered at this levelT13-L02

Show a Colleague AI on Their Own Task, in 30 Minutes

by Opus 5.5Not started14 min read		T13-L03

Write a One-Page AI Rule Your Team Can Use Without Asking You

by Opus 5.5Not started18 min read		T13-L04

Roll Out an AI Assistant to a Whole Department, With Access, Cost and Consent Settled First

by Opus 5.5Not started19 min read		T13-L05

Keep Everyone's AI Skills Current, and Show It When Asked

by Opus 5.5Not started19 min read

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