Open Source · Built inside Claude · No infrastructure required

The Applied Innovation Agent Platform

Future Thinking, Design Thinking, and Systems Thinking running together through 13 specialized AI agents. Built to produce innovations that are desirable, viable, and resilient across multiple futures. No infrastructure. No API costs. Free to use.

13
Specialized Agents
5
Tiers of Analysis
3
Thinking Frameworks
Free
Open Source

One-dimensional innovation fails

Most organizations run design thinking workshops that ignore the systems their ideas have to survive in. Or they do scenario planning but never test whether anyone wants what they're building.

The Problem

Single-lens thinking produces single-lens results

Ideas that look great in a workshop die in the real world because nobody stress-tested the assumptions. Great design doesn't survive a broken system. A compelling future vision doesn't matter if nobody wants to live in it. One tool can't do the job.

The Solution

Three frameworks. Thirteen agents. One integrated platform.

An AI-powered platform that systematically applies Future Thinking, Design Thinking, and Systems Thinking together — producing innovations that are desirable, viable, and resilient across multiple futures. No infrastructure. No cost. Built inside Claude.

Three frameworks, running simultaneously

Grounded in Braden Kelley's Resilient Innovation framework. Each discipline surfaces something the others miss. Run them together and you get a complete picture.

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Future Thinking

IFTF-Aligned

Prepare-Foresight-Insight cycle with tiered toolkit. Signal scanning, STEEP driver analysis, scenario building, and cross-impact mapping. What's coming and what it means for your strategy.

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Design Thinking

Human-Centered

Empathize-Define-Ideate-Prototype with personas, journey maps, HMW questions, and desirability screening. What people actually need — not what you assume they need.

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Systems Thinking

Complexity-Aware

Draw Out Consequences, causal loop diagrams, leverage point analysis, and system archetypes. What the environment will accept, resist, and amplify. Where to push and where to back off.

13 agents across 5 tiers

Each agent has its own analytical framework, voice, and output format. They run inside a Claude Project as structured SKILL.md files — no infrastructure, no API keys, just Claude and the right system design.

Tier 1 Client Interface
Navigator
Client Intake
Challenge discovery, innovation maturity assessment, engagement scoping. Makes sure we're solving the right problem before anything else starts.
Publisher
Deliverables
Board-ready decks, strategy reports, workshop guides, one-pagers, and case studies. Turns the work into something you can actually present.
Tier 2 Core Thinking
Scout
Future Thinking
IFTF-aligned foresight: signal scanning, STEEP drivers, scenario building, cross-impact mapping. Tiered toolkit from 15-minute scans to full-day deep dives.
Empathy
Design Thinking
Stakeholder research, personas, journey mapping, HMW questions, desirability screening, prototyping briefs. Human needs first.
Architect
Systems Thinking
System maps, causal loops, Draw Out Consequences framework, leverage point identification. Shows what the idea actually touches.
Tier 3 Intersection Agents
Visionary
Future + Design
Future persona evolution, scenario-based prototyping, speculative design, experience roadmapping across 1, 3, and 5 year horizons.
Integrator
Design + Systems
Journey-system overlay, scalability assessment, pilot-to-production pathways. Great idea, now let's make it survive the real world.
Sentinel
Future + Systems
Resilience mapping, assumption stress testing, pre-mortem analysis. Finds what breaks first when your load-bearing assumptions fail.
Tier 4 Operational Agents
Radar
Competitive Intel
Market signals, patent scanning, competitive positioning maps, M&A tracking.
Banker
Portfolio Mgmt
Three Horizons classification, pipeline health, resource allocation. Catches when you're overweight on incremental.
Scorekeeper
Metrics
DVFA scoring, innovation maturity assessment, KPI design. Show me the evidence.
Bridge
Change Mgmt
Adoption readiness, stakeholder resistance mapping, transition design. The technology may be ready. Are the people?
Tier 5 Orchestration
Conductor
Orchestrator
Cross-agent synthesis, conflict resolution, unified strategy, action planning. Doesn't just summarize — surfaces where agents disagree and forces a resolution before you walk into a boardroom.

A 6-stage coordinated engagement

A full engagement runs intake through deliverables. You don't need all 13 agents every time. Navigator tells you which ones matter for your challenge.

Stage 01

Intake

Navigator

Challenge discovery, focal question framing, engagement scoping. Quick sprint, standard, or deep. Navigator recommends the right agent lineup before analysis begins.

Stage 02

Core Analysis

Scout · Empathy · Architect

Three independent analyses running in parallel. Foresight, human needs, and system dynamics — each agent working from the same focal question, each through its own lens.

Stage 03

Intersection Synthesis

Visionary · Integrator · Sentinel

Each intersection agent takes two Stage 2 outputs and finds what emerges at the boundary. This is where the real insights surface — where two frameworks collide.

Stage 04

Operational Context

Radar · Banker · Scorekeeper · Bridge

Layer in competitive reality, portfolio fit, evidence-backed scoring, and change readiness. Run the agents Navigator recommended. Skip the ones you don't need.

Stage 05

Synthesis

Conductor

Integrated strategy report. Conductor surfaces agreements, exposes conflicts, produces the unified DVFA-scored strategy. One coherent recommendation from six stages of analysis.

Stage 06

Deliverables

Publisher

Board-ready artifacts from Conductor's synthesis. Executive summary, strategy report, one-pager, or workshop guide — formatted for your audience.

DVFA: evidence-backed scoring

Every innovation opportunity scored across four dimensions, each 1 to 5 with an explicit confidence level. No hand-wavy "this feels promising."

D
Desirability
Do people actually want this?
From Empathy
V
Viability
Can the system sustain it?
From Architect
F
Feasibility
Can you realistically build it?
From Operational Reality
A
Adaptability
Does it hold across multiple futures?
From Scout + Sentinel

Everything you need to run it

The repo includes all 13 agent files, routing logic, setup guide, architecture diagram, and an engagement cheat sheet. Fork it, use it, build on it.

13 Agent SKILL.md Files CLAUDE.md with Routing Logic Setup Guide + README Architecture Diagram Engagement Cheat Sheet Executive Overview HTML