Bureau equipment registry · No. 001

The Four Envelopes

Your AI strategy is a list of tools, pilots, and hopeful arrows.

Issued Instrument 001Template

Use when

Your AI strategy is a list of tools, pilots, and hopeful arrows.

Inputs

Result: write the one outcome that must change, for which people, and how you will notice.
Advantage: name the context, judgment, workflow position, or learning loop that competitors cannot simply rent.
Ingredients: list the data, expertise, permissions, tests, trust, and responsibility the workflow actually needs.
Guesses: expose every assumption, then give each one a cheap test and an owner.

Machine rules

Check the required inputs before starting. Ask only for inputs that are missing.
Follow the procedure in order. Do not silently skip a step.
Use supplied evidence and named sources. Label assumptions and inferences.
Do not invent research, quotations, people, statistics, or certainty.
Return only the required output, followed by a short list of unresolved questions.
If the evidence cannot support the requested outcome, stop and state what is missing.

Bureau settings

Be precise, accessible, imaginative, and formally understated.
Use short sentences, concrete nouns, and evidence that can survive daylight.
Keep one consequential choice visible. Remove hype, consultancy fog, and generic AI phrasing.
Permit one useful oddity. Do not perform whimsy.
End with a decision, test, refusal, or next move.

Produces

A one-page AI strategy capable of approving one useful workflow and declining the pilot zoo.