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CAPABILITY 28 / 30

The first real task

Ten minutes to read, fifteen to set up, and a concierge that hands you your first job.

IN PRODUCTION

This runs in client systems today. The sample below was regenerated for a fictional company.

Adoption is not training. It is making the first real task easy enough to finish. Three timed paths, a handbook that says which tool suits which job, and a concierge that asks a few questions and hands someone an actual first task with the facts they will need.

TRY IT / RUNS IN YOUR BROWSER

Use it here.

The mechanism is the production one. The company, the catalogue, and every figure are fictional.

Loading the onboarding paths.

THE OUTPUT / GENERATED FOR APEX INSTRUMENTS

What comes out.

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Three onboarding paths, 21 stepsData · New teammate at 15 minutes over 7 steps, an existing teammate adopting it at 10 minutes of reading over 5 steps, and the operator at 45 minutes over 9 steps. Every step carries its minutes, what to do, and what done looks like. Every path carries what you need before you start and what done looks like overall. The step minutes add up to the stated total in all three cases, which the verification checks rather than trusts.Open the file ↗
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The team handbook as structured dataData · Three ways in, each with when to use it, when not to, what it costs and a worked example. A five tier model table with four columns: the tier, what it suits, why, and what not to use it for. The daily four. Five habits, each with the tell that says somebody has stopped doing it. The tiers are deliberately named Fast, Everyday, Deep, Long context and Private rather than by product, because product names date a handbook within two quarters.Open the file ↗
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The concierge prompt as a decision tree, 22 nodesData · Ten questions and twelve tasks. Every route through the tree asks exactly three questions and ends on a task nobody else in the tree reaches, so there are no dead ends and no unreachable leaves. Each task names the tool or template and where it lives, the facts you need in hand, the first move, a time, and what done looks like.Open the file ↗

THE MECHANISM / SHOW THE SHAPE, NOT THE SOURCE

How it works.

What a skill is
  1. 01Pick the path

    A new teammate, an existing one adopting it, or an operator who will run it.

  2. 02Time it honestly

    Every step carries its minutes, and the totals are what they claim.

  3. 03Say which tool

    A handbook that names when to chat, when to work in a session, and when to write code.

  4. 04Hand over a task

    The concierge ends at a named first task, not a tour.

  5. 05Make finishing likely

    The facts and the template come with the task.

WHAT IT READS

  • A path per kind of person
  • The handbook, including which model suits which job
  • A concierge decision tree ending in a real task

WHAT IT CHECKS BEFORE IT SHIPS

  • The stated times match the sum of the steps
  • The concierge always ends at a real task
  • The handbook names a model for each kind of job
  • Nothing requires a walkthrough call
In production: a ten-minute onboarding document, a fifteen-minute teammate setup, an onboarding concierge prompt, and a team handbook.

The mechanism runs inside client systems. Everything on this page was regenerated for Apex Instruments, a company that does not exist. Client names, source files, and internal wording stay private.

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