Mastering perpetual innovation using AI First Principles
WISER enables teams to innovate continuously without operational disruption. Five canons, 26 plays, and a practitioner toolkit for teams where stagnation is more dangerous than change.
The Method (method/WISER Method.md). The complete WISER methodology: canons, plays, positions, playbook structure. This is the authoritative source.
Practitioner Templates (templates/). 35 templates organized by canon. Description specs (format-neutral blueprints), HTML sources for PDF reference cards, and a CSS design system. Use these to build WISER tooling in any platform.
- Read
method/WISER Method.mdto understand the methodology - Browse
templates/for the practitioner templates organized by canon - Use the description specs (
description.mdfiles) to build templates in your tool of choice - Use the HTML/CSS files to generate PDF reference cards
Ready-to-use Notion and Google Sheets versions are available at wisermethod.com/templates.
| Canon | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Witness | See what's actually happening. Map friction, observe workflows, document reality. |
| Interrogate | Challenge assumptions. Rapid experiments before committing to months of development. |
| Solve | Deliver a single working solution that earns organizational trust. |
| Expand | Scale reach without scaling risk. Modularize success for related problems. |
| Refine | Grow autonomy through evidence. Monitor drift, graduate trust. |
| Section | Databases | Pages | Reference Cards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Team Setup | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 Playbook | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 Witness | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 Interrogate | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 Solve | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 15 Expand | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 16 Refine | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 17 Rhythm | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 19 Creating Plays | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 14 | 15 | 4 |
See templates/AGENTS.md for the complete inventory with properties, relations, and cross-database links.
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This repository contains the open-source methodology and templates. The following are separate:
- The Book: WISER Method Master Playbook: Build What Matters with AI First Principles, by Robb Wilson and Anthony Franco, teaches the methodology through narrative, case studies, and worked examples. Available on Amazon.
- Hosted Templates: Interactive Notion workspace and Google Sheets workbooks. Free at wisermethod.com/templates.
The WISER Method builds on AI First Principles, an open-source framework of twelve constraints governing how AI systems succeed and fail, and on organizational AGI (OAGI), Robb Wilson's term, set out in Age of Invisible Machines (Wiley) by Robb Wilson and Josh Tyson.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to contribute.
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