Future-Proofing Playbook
Products · the Playbook, translated

The Playbook provides the logic. The product applies it to the challenge in front of you.

Three products make different parts of the Playbook usable in practice. The research report sets out the method and scientific evidence in full; the LLM Exposure Assessor is an interactive tool that helps individuals understand how LLMs may affect their work and gives organisations a clear picture of where that impact falls across individuals, teams, departments, and the organisation as a whole; and the Strategic Focus Finder is a guided diagnostic that helps individuals identify the future-proofing strategy that best fits their context and preferences.

More products can be built around the specific needs of your organisation.

Product one · the research report

The full research report, the only place the method exists in complete form.

Everything else on this site is built on this research: the five-step playbook, the four future-proofing strategies, the capability model, and the services and products that put them into practice. Across 125 pages, the report reviews 123 academic papers and draws on 10 expert interviews with AI engineers, future-of-work scholars, and executive coaches. It provides the complete reasoning, scientific evidence, and methodology behind everything presented here. The report is typically shared as part of an engagement, but can also be purchased separately.

Institutions
EPFL, IMD, and HEC Lausanne, under E4S
Supervisor
Prof. Dr Patrick Haack
  • Director, Research Center for Grand ChallengesHEC Lausanne
  • Director, Department of Strategy, Globalization, and SocietyHEC Lausanne
  • International Research FellowOxford University
Expert
Prof. Dr Olivier Gallay
  • Professor of Operations ResearchUniversity of Lausanne
  • Vice-Dean for Programs and Student AffairsHEC Lausanne
  • Co-director, Master in Sustainable Management and TechnologyEPFL, IMD, and HEC Lausanne
Product two · the LLM Exposure Assessor

A guided assessment that turns the exposure methodology into a task-by-task picture.

Where the report sets out the full method, the LLM Exposure Assessor applies one part of it to show how LLMs may affect the work within an individual role, team, department, or organisation. The demo below is fully interactive and runs on fictional data. Nothing entered into it is stored or sent. It exists so you can see what a productised version of the method looks like, rather than take my word for it.

Three units of analysis
Individuals

Break your role into everyday tasks and see, task by task, what could be automated, what could be augmented, and what stays yours. The results are aggregated into an exposure profile for your role and can be downloaded as an Excel file.

Organisations

The same picture across the whole company: departments, teams, and roles, hours-weighted and exportable to Excel. A baseline for choosing the right strategic response.

Students

Run the same assessment on the role you are aiming for rather than the one you hold, so a course or career choice is made against the job as it will be, not as it is described today.

The exposure logic underneath is the same in all three cases: work is broken into tasks, each task is classified, and the results are aggregated back up to whatever unit of analysis you care about.

Interactive: try it right here

Interactive demo

The Assessor is built for a phone-sized app, not a phone-sized picture of one, so on a small screen it opens on its own rather than inside this page.

Open the Assessor
Product three · the Strategic Focus Finder

Turn AI exposure into a strategy every employee can act on.

The Strategic Focus Finder runs the Playbook’s Step 3, choosing your focus, end to end: an outside-in read of occupational exposure, an inside-out read of personal fit across seven question groups, then the combination rules that decide which of Differentiation, Augmentation, Repositioning, and Evasion can actually be held together. The output is a named strategic focus, the implementation pathway attached to it, and a report that states why every option was carried forward or dropped.

The public version takes fifteen minutes and runs entirely in your browser. For organisations, the diagnostic can be tailored to their roles, capabilities, and strategic priorities, then deployed across the workforce to give every employee a context-specific strategic focus and implementation path.

Segment 1

Occupational exposure, about four minutes. Two anchors from the exposure literature, your function and your industry, are combined with your own task mix. Together, they indicate what move may be necessary from a labour-market perspective: whether upskilling within your current position is likely to be enough, or whether you should consider moving to a different position.

Segment 2

Personal fit, about nine minutes. Twenty-one statements across the seven question groups the method uses: capability profile, learning costs, motivation and natural edge, occupational preferences, risk tolerance, career stage, and constraints. Each one is weighted toward the strategies it actually bears on.

Segment 3

Synthesis, about two minutes. The combination rules are applied, your strategic focus is named, and the matching implementation pathway is attached. Each of the four strategies is shown as either carried forward or ruled out, together with the reason and score behind the decision. A full report can then be downloaded as a PDF.

Interactive: try it right here

Fifteen minutes, free

The diagnostic is built for a full screen, so it opens as its own page rather than inside this one.

Open the diagnostic
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Noah Graf

Author of the Future-Proofing Playbook. Strategy consulting background; Corporate Development & Strategy Lead at Vaulted AG, an ETH Zurich spin-off in sustainable construction.

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