AI Harness

An AI Harness is not just one good prompt.

A single good question can get you a single good answer. But recurring work — especially work with clear judgment criteria and real cost of error — needs more than that.

An AI Harness structures professional knowledge, a defined workflow, decision rules, validation steps, and a consistent output format, so that AI can carry out that work more consistently every time. The same input gets the same standard applied, and anything unconfirmed is flagged rather than guessed.

Why a Single Prompt Isn’t Enough

For recurring work, re-specifying standards, procedure, validation, and output format inside a long prompt every time has real limits. An AI Harness is an approach that structures this instead.

What an AI Harness Structures

It brings five elements together.

  • Knowledge

    Structures the professional knowledge the work requires.

  • Workflow

    Defines the order the work is carried out in.

  • Rules

    Makes the judgment criteria explicit.

  • Validation

    Puts a validation step in place to check results.

  • Output Structure

    Produces results in a consistent format.

The AI Harnesses We’ve Built

We currently apply this approach in three areas.

Analysis / Decision Support

Pricing Harness

Structures your pricing and cost data, diagnoses your current price, and compares pricing scenarios to support your decisions.

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Proposal Review

ODA Proposal Review Harness

Reviews ODA proposals across seven dimensions and identifies what needs strengthening.

In active use

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Content Production

Promotion Harness

You describe your product, service, or business information in conversation, and it drafts promotional content for the right channel.

In active use

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How This Relates to Business Planning

The core assumptions structured through business planning — customer, problem, value proposition, business model, pricing hypothesis, revenue model — are used by Harnesses in the work that follows planning. A Harness does not replace business planning, and there is no implemented automatic data connection between the Website and any Harness.

Human Review Stays Central

What a Harness produces is not a final decision. Anything unconfirmed is flagged rather than guessed, and final confirmation and whether to apply the result always remain the user's judgment.

Connection to Learning

Structuring your own expertise and recurring work into an AI Harness is also covered in our teaching.

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Harness / AI training, consulting, or a workshop — whatever you're looking into, feel free to reach out.

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