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AI Proof Gap Index
Are your AI bets paying off? Are you shipping faster? Is quality holding? Answer a few questions about how your teams deliver. In four minutes, you get a readout of what AI is really changing — and a starting point for the conversation with your board.
The field manual
A field manual for modern product engineering
Nerdy is our public knowledge graph and AI agent: problems and opportunities, concepts, tools and practices, workshops, case studies, sources. Nerd/Noir is the first consultancy your AI agent can interact with. Browse Nerdy or point your AI assistant at the whole library over MCP.
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Hard Boiled Software
Honest conversations with systems thinkers in software.
- AI Co-founders with Chris Hefley & Troy Magennis (opens in new tab)
- Strategy in the AI Age with Vic Chynoweth (opens in new tab)
- Mapping Your Architecture with Simon Brown (opens in new tab)
- Event Modeling: The Blueprint for Building Maintainable Software with Adam Dymitruk (opens in new tab)
- The Skills That Survive AI with Michael Feathers (opens in new tab)
Highlights
More from the field manual
AI Cost-Savings Scorecard
AI FinOps: 16 questions that estimate how much of your AI spend is recoverable, and rank the levers that recover it.
(opens in new tab)ROI Calculator
Make the economic case for a process change, or for driving down toil, with back-of-the-envelope math.
(opens in new tab)AI Without ROI
The problem card: AI feels like noise, not leverage — scattered usage, no compounding.
(opens in new tab)Case studies
The full write-ups: context, moves, trade-offs, and results.
(opens in new tab)Workshops
Eight workshops, built to run on your real problems.
(opens in new tab)Experiential Learning
Collaborators alongside your team on real problems: capability built through practice, not instruction.
(opens in new tab)Find the gap between AI strategy and execution.
Answer a few questions about how your teams deliver. In four minutes, you get a readout of where the AI gains stall.