NAME IT FIRST

Workbook

The AI-Adjacent Professional

A Workbook for Figuring Out What You're Still Here to Do

AI can do a lot of what you do. Figure out what it cannot.

This is for:

For the professional watching AI change their field and wondering what they are for — knowledge workers, creatives, analysts, and anyone whose identity was built around skills AI is beginning to do.

You'll produce:your Your Human Edge Document

The Name It First Experience

You work alongside tools that work faster, process more, and never second-guess. The question of what you are for persists. This workbook requires real work: naming what you do that the tools cannot, documenting your judgment, your context, your relationships, and the questions only a human asks. The output is not reassurance. It is Your Human Edge Map — a signed professional identity document.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What does AI do in your field now — and what has that changed about what you are actually for?
  2. What do you bring that AI doesn't — not as a hope or a guess, but as something you can actually name and demonstrate?
  3. What would a professional identity built on what AI cannot replace look like — and what would it require you to claim?

Research basis

Autor on skill-biased technological change and task replacement / Davenport and Kirby on human-machine collaboration / Brynjolfsson and McAfee on the second machine age and complementary skills.

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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

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eBook + journal

The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$12.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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