Frameworks · Far West Proprietary

The instruments we built.

They carry our name because we built them.

Three instruments built inside Far West Consulting. The Workflow-First Sequence is the operating methodology — three phases applied in order on every engagement. The AI-Workflow-Fit Diagnostic is the per-task classification instrument that comes out of the workflow map. The Bearing is the diagnostic engine that drafts the Phase 2 strategy from a discovery intake.

The recognized frameworks in the other five categories sit underneath these three — ADKAR informs how the Workflow-First Sequence handles the adoption phase; Cynefin sharpens the AI-Workflow-Fit Diagnostic's per-task classification; the Anthropic 4D model drives the branching logic inside The Bearing. The proprietary instruments are not in opposition to the recognized frameworks. They are how we assemble them.

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The Workflow-First Sequence

Map the workflow. Decide where AI fits and where it doesn't. Install the change. Tools last.

Far West Consulting's operating methodology. Three steps in order: map the workflow as it actually runs, decide where AI should absorb tasks, support them, or stay out, then install the change the workflow now needs. Tool selection comes last.

Use case
Reversing the 95% pilot-failure pattern (MIT/Project NANDA, 2025): most failed AI rollouts buy the tool before mapping the work it's supposed to do.

How Far West applies it
Every engagement runs through the sequence; Diagnostic and Integration services are built around its three phases.

Far West Consulting · Approach

AI-Workflow-Fit Diagnostic

Task inventory and decision map — where AI absorbs the task, where AI supports it, where AI stays out.

A structured task inventory and decision map, built on sixteen years of L&D and change practice. It sorts every task into three categories: AI absorbs (full delegation is safe), AI supports (human in the loop), AI stays out (the risk says no) — each paired with a change-effort estimate, because the technical and human lifts are rarely the same size.

Use case
Replacing the binary "should we use AI here?" question with a per-task, per-risk-profile answer the business can act on.

How Far West applies it
Output of the Diagnostic service: the workflow map plus a change-effort estimate per task. For ops-heavy organizations, the mapping draws on DMAIC and Value Stream Mapping.

Far West Consulting · AI Workflow Audit

The Bearing

A 60-question diagnostic engine that drafts the Phase 2 strategy from a discovery intake.

The recommendation engine that drafts the Phase 2 strategy pack from a discovery-call intake. 4D mastery questions (verification habit, manager visibility) drive section-level branching: when manager visibility is absent, it recommends a smaller manager-first engagement, not standard team training.

Use case
Producing an honest recommendation — including scoping smaller than a typical contract when readiness is low.

How Far West applies it
Sits behind the Discovery process, documented on the How we use AI page as part of the practice's transparency commitment.

Far West Consulting · How we use AI

Where these instruments show up

The proprietary instruments run through every engagement.

The Workflow-First Sequence — the operating methodology, in detail.
AI Workflow Discovery — where the AI-Workflow-Fit Diagnostic is the deliverable.
How we use AI — The Bearing documented in detail, including the manager-visibility logic that triggers scoping smaller engagements when readiness is low.

Where to start

The diagnostic takes about ten minutes. The Bearing reads the result and drafts the engagement that fits.

Take the AI Workflow Diagnostic