Predictive Planning Institute
Working Artifacts

Tools designed to be used.

Tools that make the discipline operable.

Figure 4 · The Composition Surface

Signals → Typed Edges → Generated Scenario

The composition canvas exposes the math layer directly. Nodes are signals; edges are typed, weighted relationships. The artifacts below are the working forms of what happens on this surface.

Composition surfaceSame nodes, same weights, same math — internal and external on one canvas.Pressing Generate runs the graph through the same scoring engine that powers ranking, probability, and personalization across the platform.External · P4Capital TightnessIndex0.34 · easingExternal · P3Sector M&A vol.90-day rolling↑ 22%Internal · P4Outbound velocityCadence read24% of targetInternal · P5Exec memocoherence↓ 0.42Composite · P5Refi WindowIndex0.74 · openingmethodology page →Composite · P4Plan CoherenceIndex0.42 · watchfuldrift detected ↑Steward-built · P5Capital DecisionPosture (this org)composite of left ←+ inverse memo coherence+ dampened by outboundsave as first-class signal →Generated · scenario"Refi First,Raise Second"Probability · scored0.71Time horizonQ4 — Q1Implied stakerefi senior, hold raiseReversibilitytwo-way doorWatch signals5 linkedEdge typesleads-to · forward-positiveinverse · forward-negativeamplifies · multiplicativedampens · inverse-multiplicativecontingent · gatedgenerated · scenario
11×17 print plate · PDFAvailable

The Predictive Planning Loop

The four-phase loop on a single sheet, designed to print at tabloid size and live on a wall. Use during Stake decisions to keep the team anchored to the discipline rather than the question of the moment.

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Workbook · XLSX + PDFAvailable

Stake Sizing Matrix

The two-by-two for sizing strategic commitments by reversibility and conviction. Bundle includes the four-page working brief (with the blind-vote conviction protocol and worked example) plus an interactive scoring workbook your team can run live in a Stake meeting.

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Standing-meeting template · PDFAvailable

Convergence Review Template

A template for the standing Steer meeting. Pre-meeting prep, a 90-minute run-of-show, a scenario board that tracks each scenario as converging, holding, or collapsing, a stake-moves table, and a single-page convergence read to close the session.

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Field manual · PDFAvailable

90-Day Scan Installation Guide

Week-by-week installation plan for the Scan layer of the loop, scoped to a single operating unit. Phased across 90 days with checklists, cadence design and the AI/Human Split, and a fillable Day-30 Scan Brief.

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Interactive self-assessmentAvailable

The Maturity Read

A twenty-question diagnostic for an executive team to read its own predictive maturity. Scores your organization across Scan, Story, Stake, and Steer on a four-stage ladder — Absent to Compounding — with the next move at your stage. Five minutes, in the browser.

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Reference taxonomy · PDFAvailable

Signal Layer Source Taxonomy

A working catalog of signal sources organized by category — system data, paid feeds, public data, human signal, derived indicators — each with concrete example sources, cadence, and owner. Seeds the Scan inventory at Day 1 of an installation.

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