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Operations Notes
Practical methods for finding, and fixing, what’s holding a business back. This is the same thinking behind Catalyst’s free diagnosis, written down so you can run it yourself, with or without us.
Two kinds of thing here. The notes are short, and build on each other in order. The workbook at the bottom is the whole method assembled into something you can run on your own business today, with the worksheets and prompts included.
Find the Constraint
Most businesses don’t have a shortage of problems. They have a shortage of clarity about which one is actually worth fixing. How to use AI to reconstruct what’s really happening in a process, and find the one thing limiting it.
Don’t Fix the Symptom
“Proposals go out too slowly” is an observation, not a diagnosis. How to use AI to ask why enough times to find the real cause, without letting it hand you a confident guess dressed up as an answer.
Don’t Automate the Wrong Thing
Once you know what’s actually constraining the business, AI is one possible fix among several, not the default one. A way to choose the right intervention before you choose a tool.
The AI Constraint Diagnostic
The full method from Notes 01–03, built to be run rather than read: an evidence checklist, the friction finder, the constraint test, the root-cause questions, the measurement worksheet, and a master prompt you paste into any AI assistant along with your own evidence.
Run it on your business today →