Life & WorkFor Jim Collins.
A clear head on one thing that matters, with the AI you already use. Yours to keep, change or share.
On a phone: open the app, then use “Add to Home Screen” in the browser menu, and it sits on your phone like an app.
A real example
A manager typed one line in the app: “Promote Alex or hire from outside?”, expecting Alex to do well, 70% sure, check-in in a month. A tap on Claude copied this text and opened Claude; pasted there and sent, it got the answer below.
My own forecast: Alex will do well · How sure I am: 70% · Check-in: November 26
Help me with this, one step at a time… Work with these ideas from Jim Collins, and name the idea when you use it: Confront the brutal facts, the Stockdale Paradox, First Who, then what (the right people on the bus, the wrong people off it and the right people in the right seats, before settling where to drive), Fire bullets, then cannonballs; where the question fits them, also the Hedgehog Concept, the 20 Mile March and the SMaC recipe, each with its core in a line. Keep facts apart from guesses. End with one small next step and a check day.
Your starting point: You forecast that Alex will do well in the role, and you're 70% sure. Your check-in is November 26, about a month from now.
The question, said plainly:
Is Alex the right person for this seat, or am I settling because Alex is already on the bus?
This is First Who, then What. The question isn't only "can Alex do the job?" It's whether Alex is the right person in the right seat. Collins adds a hard rule: when in doubt, keep looking rather than settle. Your 70% means you see roughly a 1-in-3 chance this goes wrong. That's real doubt, and it's worth stating openly instead of rounding it up to "yes."
One thing I see that you didn't say: "Promote or hire from outside" may not be a strict either/or. Promoting Alex also changes Alex's current seat, and an outside search changes how Alex feels about staying. Both paths have a cost to the bus as a whole, not just to this one role.
My one hard question for you:
What specifically makes up the 30% doubt? Is it a skill Alex hasn't shown yet, something about how Alex handles people or pressure, or just that you haven't seen enough?
Before we go on, please tell me:
1. Does that framing of the question fit? If not, how would you say it?
2. Your answer to the hard question above.
I'll wait for your reply before moving to Step 2 (the facts, and the biggest risk).
On November 26 the app asks: what really happened? Over time you see how often your forecasts held up.
Put it inside your AI
Claude Desktop (no terminal)Four simple steps, no commands
On your computer (Mac or Windows):
- Download the plugin (life-work-collins-plugin.zip, 1.1 MB). If your Mac unzipped it automatically, no problem: the original .zip is still in Downloads.
- In Claude Desktop open Customize (left sidebar), then Plugins.
- Choose Add, then Upload plugin, and pick the .zip file you downloaded.
- Start a new chat and say: “Help me think through a decision.”
SHA-256 fingerprint of the zip:
5182a37ce332dc1610671d5f6a8d357e20987b555d56eb4af527549fba726111
Add it to Claude Code, Codex or another agentFor technical users · three steps, one ready-made message
- Download the kit (life-work-collins.zip, about 1.8 MB) and keep it in Downloads.
- Open Claude Code, Codex or your own agent and paste this message:
Please install the Life & Work kit for me. I saved the kit on this computer as a file named life-work-collins.zip (look in Downloads, then on the Desktop). Before opening it, check that its SHA-256 is 8ff5831e6a16e423d2bb897175966ca25c2a73435fde596e8966957779e7833a (Mac/Linux: shasum -a 256 <file>; Windows: Get-FileHash <file>); if it differs, stop and tell me. Unzip it into a new empty temporary folder and run the installer that matches this computer (you can tell which one it is; I do not have to choose): on a Mac or Linux, sh <folder>/life-work/install.sh ; on Windows, powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File <folder>\life-work\install.ps1 . If it asks for anything, finish those steps. Then tell me in two lines what was installed and start the first conversation (the map skill) with me right away.
On Windows, “-ExecutionPolicy Bypass” lets PowerShell run this one installer script, this one time; it changes no setting on your computer. Before anything runs, your agent checks the zip’s SHA-256 fingerprint against the one below.
- Answer its questions. It tells you what it installed and starts the first conversation.
SHA-256 fingerprint of the zip:
8ff5831e6a16e423d2bb897175966ca25c2a73435fde596e8966957779e7833a
What it does
On your phone, tap Start. Pick the situation (a decision, a conversation you keep putting off, too much on your plate, or something else) and describe it in a sentence or two. For a decision you also say what you expect, how sure you are (50, 70 or 90%) and when to check back (2 weeks, 1 month or 3 months).
Then tap ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Your text, with good questions built in, is copied and your AI opens (on a computer, with one more click): paste it and send.
For a decision, the check-in day goes into your calendar with one tap, so it reminds you. On that day the app asks: what really happened? Your check-in history shows how often your forecasts matched what happened. You can also ask a second AI to argue against your plan.
No account, no laptop needed. Everything stays on your phone. (In the browser version the check-in date waits on the home screen; a web page cannot ring your phone.)
On your computer, if you want more. The kit lives inside the AI you already use: Claude (desktop, web or Code), Codex, Gemini and others. It learns your goals once, helps with real work and decisions in your own files, suggests a relevant idea from your published work, and on the day you set brings you back to what you decided.
Your files stay on your computer and your notes on your phone. What you send to an AI is handled by the AI provider you choose.
Who made this: Vadym Chernets, PhD, AI researcher; two papers at NeurIPS 2026 workshops: Verification Theater and Self-Confidence in LLM Evaluation.