Intellectual Frontiers

Twelve Blank Field Tools, in the Order the Chapters Introduce Them

These pages give a blank version of every tool this fieldbook introduces, in the order the chapters introduce them. It also reproduces three forms from You Are Not the User unchanged (the Handoff Chain Trace, the Sensor Map, and the Simulated User Disclosure), each where this book first asks you to fill it in. Each tool starts with when to use it and the chapter that works it. Fill in one copy for each system, claim, or team. Keep the copy with the decision it informed. The AI prompts are in the chapters’ try-this boxes only. Use them only with unclassified, publicly releasable material, in an AI tool your organization has approved.

  1. Trace Where a Unit’s Need Changed Meaning on the Way

  2. Weigh What Each Office in the Chain Sees Well and Misses

  3. Record How Far a Test Was From the Fight

  4. Attach a Disclosure to Any Result Not From the Unit

  5. Send a Unit’s Need Forward With Its Strength, Distance, and Author

  6. Sort Each System by Who Should Integrate It

  7. Check That the Buy Delivers Components and Rights

  8. Write the Charter Before the Team Builds or Buys

  9. Map Every Gate a Build or Change Must Pass

  10. Test Whether the System Runs After the Builders Rotate Out

  11. Pick a Mode and Record What the AI Workforce Holds

  12. Check That Each Turn of the Loop Started and Ended in the Fight