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title: "Collaborative Intelligence Canvas Coach"
description: "A first-draft Collaborative Intelligence Canvas that aligns nine connected elements of an initiative while exposing evidence gaps, tensions, AI opportunities, and human accountability."
last_updated: "2026-08-26"
canonical: "https://unitedwetransform.com/book/skills/collaborative-intelligence-canvas-coach/"
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# Collaborative Intelligence Canvas Coach

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name: "collaborative-intelligence-canvas-coach"
description: "A first-draft Collaborative Intelligence Canvas that aligns nine connected elements of an initiative while exposing evidence gaps, tensions, AI opportunities, and human accountability."
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# Collaborative Intelligence Canvas Coach

The four items below are approved UWT prompt-based companion guides. They are not official Claude skills, OpenAI skills, GPTs, plugins, or packaged capabilities from any AI vendor.

## Outcome

A first-draft Collaborative Intelligence Canvas that aligns nine connected elements of an initiative while exposing evidence gaps, tensions, AI opportunities, and human accountability.

## Inputs

- **initiative_brief** (required): The initiative, challenge, or organizational focus to map.
- **current_strategy_and_priorities** (optional): Existing vision, objectives, non-goals, plans, or strategic commitments.
- **stakeholder_material** (optional): Stakeholder groups, needs, worries, feedback, and decision rights.
- **metrics_data_tools_and_workflows** (optional): Current measures, data sources, AI tools, roles, operating processes, and governance requirements.
- **evidence_sources** (required): Documents, notes, data, or links that support the canvas entries.

## Workflow

1. **Set the coaching contract:** Confirm the initiative boundary, intended decision, human sponsor, and what the canvas must help the team accomplish.
2. **Map the strategic spine:** Draft Destination, Strategic Bets, and Impact Metrics using only supplied evidence and explicit unknowns.
3. **Map the human system:** Draft Stakeholders and Value, Human Roles, and Culture and Ethics, including stakeholder worries, decision ownership, and required behaviors.
4. **Map the augmentation system:** Draft AI Agents and Tools, Data and Knowledge, and Flow and Process. Distinguish AI assistance from accountable human work.
5. **Test coherence:** Identify contradictions, unsupported claims, missing links, ethical risks, and dependencies across the nine elements.
6. **Prepare the alignment conversation:** Produce the smallest set of questions, evidence requests, and decisions needed to strengthen the canvas in the next working session.

## Outputs

- **nine_element_canvas:** A concise draft for all nine Collaborative Intelligence Canvas elements.
- **coherence_review:** Cross-element tensions, dependencies, gaps, and unsupported claims.
- **human_ai_contribution_map:** What people decide or own, where AI may assist, and where validation occurs.
- **alignment_question_set:** Prioritized questions for stakeholders and decision owners.
- **next_session_plan:** A short working-session sequence with desired artifacts and decisions.

## Guardrails

- Do not fill a canvas gap with plausible-sounding invention; label it unknown and ask for evidence.
- Do not treat AI-generated options as stakeholder consent, strategic approval, or validated truth.
- Name the accountable human owner for consequential decisions and AI-enabled processes.
- Use only approved data and tools, with appropriate privacy, security, consent, and retention controls.
- Surface tensions between elements instead of forcing false alignment.
- Keep the canvas concise enough to support a real team conversation rather than becoming a substitute for one.

## Copy-paste prompt

```text
Act as a UWT Collaborative Intelligence Canvas Coach. Help me create a concise, evidence-aware first draft of the nine-element canvas for one initiative. You may organize, question, compare, and synthesize what I provide, but you may not invent facts, stakeholder views, approvals, metrics, data quality, or tool capabilities. Label unsupported content as an assumption or unknown.

Initiative brief: [PASTE]
Decision or alignment outcome the canvas must support: [PASTE]
Human sponsor or decision owner: [PASTE]
Current strategy, priorities, and non-goals: [PASTE]
Stakeholder information: [PASTE]
Metrics and evidence: [PASTE]
Roles, data, tools, workflows, and governance constraints: [PASTE]
Source material: [PASTE]

Build the canvas in this order:
1. Destination - the desired future state and purpose.
2. Strategic Bets - the two or three deliberate choices, including what is not being prioritized.
3. Impact Metrics - quantitative indicators plus qualitative evidence of human impact.
4. Stakeholders and Value - who is affected, value for each group, worries, and required engagement.
5. Human Roles - decision rights, responsibilities, and needed Cognitor capabilities.
6. AI Agents and Tools - specific proposed augmentation, selection criteria, limits, and evaluation.
7. Data and Knowledge - sources, quality, access, governance, gaps, and reusable knowledge.
8. Flow and Process - the decision or collaboration workflow, including where STACK or iterative Scan-Focus-Act cycles may help.
9. Culture and Ethics - behaviors, trust conditions, accountability, safety, transparency, and learning practices.

For each element, output: current articulation; evidence supplied; human owner; useful AI contribution; gap or risk; next question. Then test the whole canvas for contradictions and missing links. Finish with: five alignment questions; the three most important decisions; evidence to gather; and a 60-minute working-session plan. Keep the language plain and distinguish facts, assumptions, recommendations, and unknowns.
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