Future Shock field guide no. 04
The vendor is gone Friday. What survives Monday?
Your organization may keep every AI-generated file and still lose the capability behind it. The Monday Morning Test helps you identify whether one AI-assisted workflow is owned, leased, or fragmented, then shows you what disappears when the original environment leaves.
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Field guide
The Monday Morning Test
Custody is not ownership.
A four-page field guide for what survives when the model, vendor, or employee leaves.
What the guide helps you see
Four pages · PrintableBeat 1
Custody is not ownership
See why keeping the files is not the same as preserving the sources, corrections, authority, and action state needed to continue the work.
Beat 2
Owned, leased, or fragmented
Locate one real workflow by where its accumulated competence lives, not by whether the model runs on your hardware or someone else's.
Beat 3
The five Monday checks
Run a successor handoff across five failure surfaces, interpret what broke, and identify the minimum repair before the next exit.
Inside the guide
A handoff you can actually run.
The guide turns the ideas in the Owned AI research briefing into a compact test for one recurring workflow.
- Custody versus capability ownership
- The owned, leased, and fragmented map
- Five handoff checks with warning signs
- Qualitative results and minimum repairs
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