48 cards that walk a team from the work you do, to the context AI cannot see, to the tools you run on, to where AI can lift you, and how to put a first solution to use. Put them on the table and you can see how ready you really are.
Getting AI-ready is less about tools and more about visibility. AI can only act on what it can see, and most of your work is hidden from it. Four ways to think about it.
You do not need an AI strategy to begin. You need to make one corner of your work visible enough for a tool to help. Four moves to start.
Spend ten minutes listing the things you do that are not written down anywhere: the judgment calls, the context, the why behind how you work. That invisible layer is the real starting point for getting AI-ready.
Choose a single recurring piece of work and capture it where a tool could reach it: the steps, the inputs, and the context it needs. Readiness grows one captured corner at a time, not in one big push.
Make sure the files, data, and context for that work live somewhere a tool can actually reach, not locked in one person's laptop or head. Tidy the access before you automate.
Give AI one well-described slice of that work, read the result with a critical eye, and keep the judgment with you. Note what worked and what to change, then widen only once you trust it.
Search freely or filter by area. Each card is one part of the readiness picture with its own page: what it covers, why AI needs it, a first move to make it visible, questions to discuss, and traps to avoid.
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How you view AI & what you want to do with it
Your Work
How well the team understands and uses AI today
Your Work
A quick description of what you & your team do
Your Work
People you interact with during the workday
Your Work
Who hires you & what they get
Your Work
What makes you special or skilled
Your Work
Projects you're working on
Your Work
The different hats you wear in your role
Your Work
What you're good at and what you do
Your Work
The kinds of things you do in your role
Your Work
Describe what a typical workday looks like for you (e.g. yesterday)
Your Work
Reasoning that only happens out loud, rarely saved
Dark Context
Side conversations in DMs, SMS and chat
Dark Context
The real why, hidden inside long threads
Dark Context
What you did not ask for, but should hear
Dark Context
What gets decided in the room, seldom logged
Dark Context
Scraps, sketches and half-thoughts on the side
Dark Context
Calls whose recordings no one keeps
Dark Context
What people struggle with, in their own words
Dark Context
Context buried in channels and group chats
Dark Context
Thinking about work that never gets written down
Dark Context
Old systems, archives & frozen data
Your Setup
Structured stores you query
Your Setup
Laptops, phones & shared hardware
Your Setup
How you store & access logins, keys & tokens
Your Setup
Private drives & individual workspaces
Your Setup
Software & apps you run on
Your Setup
Third-party services & SaaS you subscribe to
Your Setup
Drives & folders the team can reach
Your Setup
Your public-facing pages & posts
Your Setup
What runs by itself vs what needs a human
Level Up
What you let your system build, instead of building by hand
Level Up
What AI should do and what you keep with humans
Level Up
How much background information AI needs before taking action
Level Up
How AI learns when it's right and when it's wrong
Level Up
How AI connects with your other systems
Level Up
What you do by hand before building systems around it
Level Up
What in the company leaves traces AI can read and learn from
Level Up
How AI systems can run the foundation of the company
Level Up
How you formulate instructions so AI gets it right
Level Up
How AI processes can measure results and get better over time
Level Up
A summary of what the solution should do
Put to Use
What features the solution should have, and what's absolutely most important
Put to Use
Which task or problem the solution should fix
Put to Use
What goes into the solution (data, material, etc.)
Put to Use
What comes out of the solution (results, text, files)
Put to Use
How the user uses the solution, from start to finish
Put to Use
Who the solution is for & why they should use it
Put to Use
A few terms that come up in the cards, in plain language.
A quick self-check across the five areas. Tick what is already true. The gaps are where to start. Your ticks are saved in this browser only.
A readiness check for working with AI, built on a card deck that maps your work, the context AI cannot see, your setup, and where AI fits.
Most AI advice starts with a tool. This starts with your work. AI can only act on what it can reach, and most of what makes your work yours is invisible to it: the reasoning on a call, the decision in a thread, the know-how in someone's head. Getting AI-ready is mostly the work of making that visible.
AIREADY is a remix of two MethodKit decks, AI Tasks and AI Memory. It pulls the cards that map a person's work, surfaces the dark context around it, takes stock of the setup, and points to where AI can lift the work and how to put a first solution to use. The result is a readiness picture that comes from the work, not from the hype.
Pull the cards that match where you are. Start with Your Work to get the picture, use Dark Context to surface what is hidden, take stock with Your Setup, then move through Level Up and Put to Use to decide where AI fits and ship something small. Run the readiness check at the bottom to see where you stand.
Want the cards in your hand? The decks are available from MethodKit.