The Achilles Project

Board brief builder

Answer the three questions for your board.

Seven short questions about one AI program. You get a one-page brief in your own words, laid out for a board, from the three questions in the back of The Achilles Project:

  1. How do you use it effectively?
  2. How do you use it safely?
  3. How do you know whether it’s helping or hurting?

Your answers stay in this browser. Nothing you type here is sent to us or stored. If you ask for the PDF, we store your email, the consent you choose and, when this browser holds your assessment result, its stage, never an answer you typed.

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What’s the AI program, in a few words?

Up to 60 characters.

Your brief

It fills in as you answer.

Board brief · The three questions

September 30, 2026

Your AI program

  1. How do we use it effectively?

    The target
    The result so far
  2. How do we use it safely?

    The owner
    The check
    The record
  3. How do we know whether it’s helping or hurting?

    Cost per record
    The error trend

Open items

  • Define “done” as a number before the next review
  • Name one person for each answer that matters
  • Add a check before answers reach a customer
  • Start logging what the AI saw, answered, and who approved it
  • Tag every AI call with its task, model and cost
  • Build a small test set of real cases with known answers

Built from The Achilles Project

Who’s behind this: Jeremy Evans and his firm, Thrice, build these systems for clients and run their own products on the same method. That’s a financial interest, and we say so up front.

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Your PDF

Keep it, with the field kit for your stage

Enter your email to save this as a designed PDF. The field kit for your stage opens with it: the moves to the next stage, with checklists and charts built from the book.

Your answers stay in this browser. Nothing you type here is sent to us or stored. If you ask for the PDF, we store your email, the consent you choose and, when this browser holds your assessment result, its stage, never an answer you typed.