Sensible systems for purposeful change
Unnatural
Systems
Left alone, things drift. Habits slip, teams lose alignment, code gets harder to change. We build tools that help people notice what is happening, decide what to do about it, and check that it worked.
Why unnatural
Most things run on feedback loops, and the default loop runs downhill. Without attention, order wears away and nobody chooses where things end up.
People can do something different. We can picture where we want to be, act toward it, and look honestly at what happened. That is the unnatural part: working against drift on purpose, instead of going along with it.
Our tools make that loop easier to run, at three scales: a person with a goal, a team with a direction, and a system being built.
The systems
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01 For a person
GRREAT
Turn what you want into what you do.
Goals, research, roadmap, execution, analysis and time, held in one record. Plan the work with a coach, then keep the evidence of what happened beside it, in the app or as linked Markdown your agent can pick up again.
- Goals
- Research
- Roadmap
- Execution
- Analysis
- Time
Open grreat.ca
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02 For a team
Solowly
Turn distributed thinking into a shared model.
Founders, managers and individual contributors each add what they know, inside work they are already doing. Solowly connects it into one model, so alignment and hidden divergence show, and decisions and next moves become explicit.
- Direction
- Structure
- Contribution
Open solowly.com
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03 For a system
Bropilot
Make what a system knows visible.
Foundations, domain and implementation in one navigable graph: what the system is for, the language of its world, and the code that realises it. One source of truth for people and their AI collaborators deciding what to build next.
- Foundations
- Domain
- Implementation
In the workshop
One loop, three scales
Measure, model, manifest. The book calls it the MMM loop. Every system here is that loop, fitted to the size of the thing that is changing.
The long version
The ideas under these systems are written up in Unnatural, a book about the human experience as one part of everything else: about wanting, about cutting the world into things, and about loops that learn.