Common questions about Technical Fieldcraft, its articles, tools, and assessments - written for people trying to decide what to do next.
Technical Fieldcraft is a publication and tool bench for people building real systems under real constraints. The focus is practical: take inventory, understand the risks, and make better decisions before momentum turns into waste.
The writing starts on Substack, but this site is the durable home for the work. It brings the articles, tools, and learning material into one place so a reader can move from an idea to a practical next step.
The AI Opportunity Assessment is a workspace for taking inventory before the spend starts. It helps you build a business profile, capture current AI usage, collect possible initiatives, prioritize them, assess the strongest candidate, and produce reports leadership can review.
Use it when AI ideas are starting to multiply but the decision process is still fuzzy. It is most useful before a vendor meeting, budget request, pilot, or leadership review - when you need to know what should be funded, deferred, investigated, or stopped.
Generic checklists tell you what a mature organization might have. Technical Fieldcraft tools start with the work in front of you: your actual pipeline, your task list, your constraints, and the decision you have to make next. The result should be something you can act on, not a vanity score.
Frog Breakfast is a separate tool for daily execution. It helps you notice the task you keep postponing, choose one small change, try it first, review what happened, and adjust the next attempt without dragging the same unfinished list forward.
Yes. New guides should earn their place by matching real work, not by filling a content calendar. When a tool has a clear process worth explaining, the site can add visible steps and matching HowTo schema.
Most public articles are mirrored here for discovery and durability. Substack remains the subscription home, especially for paid editions and inbox delivery.
