Life & Work

For Jim Collins.

A clear head on one thing that matters, with the AI you already use. Yours to keep, change or share.

The app on a phone, recorded as it is: one decision, start to finish, in about 20 seconds. No sound.
Try the app nowOpens right here, on your phone or computer. Nothing to install.

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.

What the app sends
The situation: Promote Alex or hire from outside?
My own forecast: Alex will do well · How sure I am: 70% · Check-in: November 25
Help me with this, one step at a time… Use Jim Collins’s ideas where they fit and name the idea you use. Keep facts apart from guesses. End with one small next step and a check day.
Claude’s first answer (real, unedited)
Step 1: The question
Your starting point: you think Alex will do well, and you’re 70% sure. That’s an honest number. It also means you see about a 3-in-10 chance this goes wrong, so let’s make the question sharp before we weigh anything.

Jim Collins’s “First who, then what” is about getting the right people into the right seats. So the real question isn’t “Is Alex good?” It’s this: “Is Alex the right person for this particular seat for the next two to three years, and better than anyone we could realistically hire from outside?”

One fact worth knowing: in Collins’s Good to Great research, most of the leaders who took companies from good to great came from inside the company. That leans toward Alex, but it doesn’t settle it.

Please answer in a sentence or two each:
1. What must this role deliver in its first year?
2. What keeps you at 70% and not 90%? What is in that 30%?

Small next step: write both answers down today.
Check day: November 25. It worked if you made the decision by checking against these written answers, not on gut feel alone.

I’ll wait for your answers.

On November 25 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):

  1. 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.
  2. In Claude Desktop open Customize (left sidebar), then Plugins.
  3. Choose Add, then Upload plugin, and pick the .zip file you downloaded.
  4. Start a new chat and say: “Help me think through a decision.”

SHA-256 fingerprint of the zip:

092ce49afd2e4f7ff433b8a533d4aadf4a88951f7b4e87ce1b1654599fce0c15

Add it to Claude Code, Codex or another agentFor technical users · three steps, one ready-made message
  1. Download the kit (life-work-collins.zip, about 1.8 MB) and keep it in Downloads.
  2. 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 bd6056230bfd741ac659167c42a7f0989d019da2eeae4083467a45ec02fdafc1 (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.
  3. Answer its questions. It tells you what it installed and starts the first conversation.

SHA-256 fingerprint of the zip:

bd6056230bfd741ac659167c42a7f0989d019da2eeae4083467a45ec02fdafc1

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: 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.