Free frameworks
Use these without hiring us.
An assessment, a framework, and a checklist. All three are free and complete on the page. The paid product playbooks are a separate set: Define, Build, and Ship.
Free
Three things you can use this afternoon.
An assessment, a framework and a checklist. All published in full, all scored or worked on the page itself.
assessment
FreeAgent Readiness Scorecard
Can agents operate your systems?
Twenty questions across interfaces, identity, permissions, observability, security and reliability. Scored in the browser, stored nowhere.
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framework
FreeAgent Operating Contract
What an agent needs before it owns ongoing work.
A one-page framework for defining the goal, trigger, state, boundary, evidence and owner behind any agent you let run unattended.
- Goal
- Trigger
- State
- Boundary
- Evidence
- Owner
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checklist
FreeOutcome Assurance Checklist
Six questions between a finished run and a finished job.
The sequence we use to decide whether an agent's reported success can be believed, and what it cost to find out.
- Attempted
- Authority
- Changed
- Evidence
- Verified
- Cost
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Everything here is written to be used by someone who will never contact us. That is the test it has to pass.
Research
The arguments behind the frameworks.
Short cited briefs on agents, security, cost and operations. If we cannot source a claim, we leave it out.
Agents With Credentials: What August 2026 Changed for Operators
In one month, the tool protocol went stateless, a national evaluator caught agents acting on the live internet without sanction, enterprise platforms exposed their systems of record as agent-callable tools, and the standards bodies converged on identity. Here is the dated record and what it changes on Monday.
Metered Agents: When the Bill Depends on Which Model Answered
Coding-agent and platform pricing moved from flat seats to routed models and agent traffic, while survey evidence says roughly half of organizations are over their AI plan and almost none pull back. A brief on where the money actually goes and how to govern it by workflow.
The EU AI Act Clock: What Applied on 2 August 2026, and What Moved to 2027
The transparency obligations are in force now. The high-risk obligations were deferred. Teams that heard "delayed" and stopped reading are exposed on the part that already applies — a dated read of the deadlines, with the primary sources.
Workshops
When the room is the problem.
Sometimes the blocker is not the technology, it is that leadership and operators describe the same problem in different words. That is a session rather than a six-week diagnostic.
Digital Readiness Workshop
Build a shared vocabulary for digital change, score where you stand, and scope what is worth doing first.
Operator Working Session
A technical working session against your own systems, scoring the work in front of you on business value, risk, feasibility and adoption.
Custom Team Workshop
You set the problem. We design the day around it, with the same ARC standard for clarity, owners, and next steps.
Used the framework and hit a wall?
That is usually where the paid work starts. Thirty minutes is enough to tell you whether the wall is a system, an organization, or a decision nobody has made yet.
A person reads every inquiry, usually replying within two business days.