AFOS™ / Training
A workspace is not a habit.
An AFOS™ workspace gives your team somewhere to record how decisions get made. Training is what makes them actually do it. These programmes are priced on their own, because the work is real and pretending otherwise helps nobody.
Why it is priced separatelyAdoption is the work, not the setup
Every AFOS tier includes getting your workspace live and configured. That is setup, and it is included. What setup cannot do is change how ten people behave in a meeting — which decisions they bring, what evidence they attach, whether anyone returns to the record three months later to see how it went.
That change is a training problem. Charging for it separately keeps both halves honest: you can buy the software without buying the programme, and when you do buy the programme you can see exactly what you are paying for.
For operational teamsWork with decisions from your own week
A capital request, contractor choice or change in work priorities can give a cohort something concrete to examine. Bring the evidence and the people responsible for the decision. Use the session to work through the reasons, sign-off and record, with outcome review covered at the depth of the chosen programme.
The programmesThree depths, one method
Half day, up to ten seats
One remote session. Everyone leaves having put a real decision of their own through AFOS — their evidence, their reasoning, their record. Not a sandbox exercise.
Quoted per cohortFoundations plus a 30-day embed
Foundations, then two clinics across the following month working on decisions that have actually landed. Ends with certification measured against your workspace activity, not attendance.
Quoted per cohortMulti-cohort and train-the-trainer
Successive cohorts, plus your own enablement lead trained to run the ones after that. For organisations past a single team.
Quoted per rolloutWith a pilotTraining alongside a pilot
Most teams starting a 90-day guided pilot add Foundations at the same time, because a pilot that nobody knows how to run evaluates nothing.
Foundations in the first fortnight
Scheduled in the pilot’s first two weeks, so the team learns the method on the decisions the pilot is evaluating.
Foundations on its own
If you already run an AFOS workspace, Foundations attaches to it directly. No pilot required.
The syllabusWhat a cohort covers
- 01Decision triage
Which decisions belong in AFOS and which do not. The most common failure is a team that logs everything, or nothing.
- 02Grounding a decision
Assembling the context and evidence a recommendation actually rests on, so the reasoning survives the meeting it was made in.
- 03Running structured challenge
Putting a real recommendation through review without it becoming theatre, and without one voice in the room deciding the outcome by seniority.
- 04Sign-off and the record
Who decides, what gets written down, and why that matters when the question comes back in a quarter.
- 05Outcome review
Closing the loop, so a decision becomes something the organisation can learn from rather than something it merely did. Covered properly in the Operator Program, where there are real outcomes to review.
What we askWhat is required of you
An ongoing AFOS workspace, or a guided evaluation or pilot already underway. We do not train teams that have nowhere to put the work.
Up to ten seats, filled by people who actually make or shape decisions. Observers dilute a cohort.
Live ones, agreed in a short call before the session. Hypotheticals teach nothing that survives contact with the week after.
One person accountable for adoption after we leave. Without this, cohorts revert inside a month.
How it is judgedWhat counts as it having worked
Both programmes are assessed against activity in your own workspace, and the assessment is agreed in writing before we start. These measures show adoption: decisions recorded, deliberations used and outcome reviews completed. They do not by themselves demonstrate improved business results.
Within 14 days
Every attendee has grounded and recorded at least one real decision of their own.
Within 30 days
The cohort has used at least 60% of its monthly deliberation allowance and closed at least three outcome reviews.
One remediation clinic
Included in the price, followed by one re-measure. If it still falls short, we say so plainly rather than invoicing around it.
SchedulingCohort dates and capacity
Cohorts are delivered remotely and run twice monthly. That cap is deliberate: training is delivered personally, and a calendar that promises more than one person can deliver is a calendar that disappoints somebody. Organisations needing more throughput than that should look at Enterprise Rollout, where your own enablement lead takes over.
Each programme is scoped and quoted in writing before booking. A 50% deposit is payable before pre-work begins, with the balance invoiced on the adoption measurement above.
Tell us which team, and which decisions.
A short note about who would be in the room and what they are deciding is enough to start. We will reply personally with an honest read on fit, including if a cohort is not what you need yet.
Enquire about a cohort See the guided pilot What AFOS™ is