Workflow Integration and Solution Design

5 build exercises to practise the concepts in this domain.

4.1 — Cluster, Confirm, Then Classify

How to get Claude to structure genuinely messy input
How to treat themes as hypotheses and confirm them with their owners
How to sort candidate work into work that suits Claude and work that does not
How to apply the test of whether someone can check the output before committing to a use case

4.2 — Plan It Twice, Then Find the Real Bottleneck

How stated constraints change the usefulness of a first-pass plan
How to spot a plan that looks correct but is wrong
How to run the describe, hypothesise, evidence, change loop
How to test whether the data points at the step you would have guessed

4.3 — Three Rounds, Three Criteria

How to write the requirement before the first draft
How to run a revision round against exactly one named criterion
How to compare versions by branching the chat
How to recognise the stopping point and the requirement problem

4.4 — Map One Process You Own

How to classify each step of a process: augment, redesign, escalate or human-only
How to write a usable escalation brief for a Developer or Architect
How to pick the augmentation with the best ratio of time saved to risk
How to measure an integration honestly over two weeks

4.5 — The Three-Part Account

How to state a value claim in four defensible parts
How to name the untested category explicitly
How to present a caught error as evidence for the process
How to answer the enthusiast and the sceptic from the same truthful account