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AI Agent Intake Form
AI agents are being approved faster than most organizations can properly evaluate them.
Before committing time, budget, or organizational trust, leadership teams need a consistent process for determining whether an AI initiative is solving the right problem and whether the expected return justifies the investment.
The AI Agent Intake Template provides a simple framework for evaluating AI initiatives before they scale.
By making assumptions visible early, defining success criteria upfront, and identifying the consequences of failure, teams can make better investment decisions and reduce the risk of scaling the wrong opportunities.
AI Enabled Decision Tools
built on the EMT system and AI Powered Experiment Library
Preflight
Test your thinking before AI accelerates it. Paste your prompt. Get a preflight report before you build.
PrecoilGPT
An interactive AI Agent that can help you Extract, Map and Test your ideas before making investment decisions.
Tough
An interactive Lovable MVP roaster. Paste in your URL and see where it breaks. Popular with the SheBuilds community.
Custom OpenAI GPTs
to help you extract assumptions and design experiments
AssumptionsGPT
A free custom GPT on OpenAI that helps your extract assumptions from any product, service or business idea.
ExperimentsGPT
A free custom GPT on OpenAI that helps your design experiments for your riskiest assumptions.
EMT Templates
to help structure your Extract Map Test system, click the image to download.
Assumptions Mapping
The map that started it all for structuring and sharing risk inside your organization.
Experiment Brief
The decision standard for designing your experiments.
Experiment Report
The decision standard for documenting your experiment results and driving it to action.
Why Run EMT Inside Claude?
Most teams rely on meetings to make decisions. Claude lets you pressure test ideas instantly without scheduling another one.
The EMT skill doesn't replace judgment. It makes the risk visible before the decision is made.
Get Started with the Precoil EMT Skill
The fastest way to find out if your idea works before you invest in it.
For Product, Strategy and Innovation Leaders.
How to Use the Precoil EMT Skill
Download testing-business-ideas-with-claude.zip (not the .md file)
Open Claude and go to Settings → Capabilities
Ensure Code execution and file creation is enabled
Go to Customize → Skills → Upload a skill
Run EMT on any idea
Requires a free, Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise Claude account.
Prompt example:
Run EMT on this idea:
[describe your product, strategy, or initiative]The Precoil Experiment Library is an AI-ready dataset of 50+ validated business experiments designed to train agents and commercialization systems to make evidence-based recommendations that drive measurable results.
The result?
AI that helps teams make smarter decisions faster
Assumptions Mapping
Have Zombie projects in your portfolio?
Take the Zombie Project Assessment and find out what to do next.
Videos
Webinar: Testing Mission Driven Ideas
Learn how to use a Mission Model Canvas to identify riskiest assumptions in your mission driven and non-profit ideas.
Webinar: Assumptions Mapping
Learn the basics on how to design and facilitate an effective Assumptions Mapping session.
Webinar: 8 Steps to Avoid Experiment Traps
Learn how to identify, address and even avoid the 8 most common experiment traps when testing a product, service or business idea.
Webinar: Testing Ideas Without Destroying Your Brand
David walks through live examples of companies already doing this and why you can too.
Don’t Commit Capital Before You Know What Must Be True
Before organizations commit serious capital, teams need confidence that the assumptions behind growth initiatives can survive reality.
Precoil helps leaders resolve uncertainty before expensive decisions move forward.