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Three questions before the calendar

An open booking link optimises for bookings. This optimises for the conversation being worth your thirty minutes — and sometimes the honest answer is that something else would serve you better first.

Three questions

So the call starts somewhere useful

These decide which of three doors is genuinely the best use of your time. The weights are published on this page, the logic is deterministic, and you can override the result. Nothing here is a filter on how senior you are.

What is your accountability here?

This decides which first question is worth your time — not whether you are senior enough.

Where are your agents right now?

An agent that only drafts text is a different problem from one that can move money.

What made this urgent this week?

A fear with a date attached is a different conversation from a general worry.

Why there is a form here

I am one person. A calendar anyone can fill is a calendar that fills with conversations neither side needed — and the cost of that lands on the people who did need one.

So three questions, scored openly, with the reasoning shown. If the answer is that a call is premature, you get told that rather than sold a call — and pointed at the thing that would actually help. All of it is free and none of it is gated.

The rules, in full. Two answers decide the outcome on their own. If you advise or sell into this market, you are routed to the published material — a call would waste both our time and everything you came for is free to read. If your agents are live and taking consequential actions, the calendar opens whatever else you answered; that is the situation this practice exists for.

Otherwise it is scored. Each question contributes up to three points: six or more opens the calendar, three to five routes to the written teardown, below three routes to the diagnostic. You can override any outcome.
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What is your accountability here?

  • Executive sponsor — I own the outcome or the budget — 3
  • Risk, compliance, audit or legal — I have to defend it — 3
  • Engineering or architecture — I have to build it — 2
  • Programme or product — I have to land it — 1
  • I advise or sell to organisations doing this — 0
  • Reading and learning, no live programme — 0

Where are your agents right now?

  • Live, and taking consequential actions — 3
  • In pilot, going live within a quarter — 3
  • In design — decisions are still open — 2
  • Live, but drafting only — nothing acts yet — 1
  • Nothing built yet — 0

What made this urgent this week?

  • An examination, audit or regulatory deadline — 3
  • An incident or a near-miss — 3
  • A board or committee has asked a question we cannot answer — 2
  • A delivery date we will miss without a decision — 2
  • Doing this properly before it becomes urgent — 1
  • Nothing specific — 0
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