--- title: Artifacts created for the email source: https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/artifacts.html published: 2026-08-08 summary: The seventeen tools, frameworks, research pieces and guides that started life in a Saturday edition of David Boyle's weekly email, grouped by what each one is for. --- # Artifacts created for the email Tools, frameworks and research that started life in a Saturday edition of [Saturday AI Thoughts](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/). Every one began as an essay, a reader question or a week's argument. Seventeen artifacts, grouped by what they are for. --- ## Try it on your organisation Answer the questions and get a read on where you actually are. Nothing is stored; the results are yours. ### AI Maturity Diagnostic 20-question quiz. Which of five phases is your organisation in? https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-maturity-diagnostic.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-maturity-diagnostic.md)) ### AI Value Map Where is AI value for your team, and how much have you captured? https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-value-map.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-value-map.md)) ### AI-Native Team Calculator Director, Builder, Auditor. What ratio does your team need? https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-native-team.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-native-team.md)) ### AI Usage Spectrum Three tool types, three usage levels. Where are your people? https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-usage-spectrum.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-usage-spectrum.md)) --- ## Frameworks Ways of holding a problem still long enough to decide something. Each one came out of a week's argument. ### The Four Freedoms *New, 4th August 2026* Four questions that tell you what any AI agent is actually free to do: Reach, Tools, Memory and Guardrails, comparing Cowork and Claude Code side by side. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/four-freedoms.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/four-freedoms.md)) ### The Five Questions *New, 18th July 2026* The simplest model for the second phase of AI transformation: five questions, three owners. The board decides, the enablement capability equips, the business units execute. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/five-questions.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/five-questions.md)) ### The CEO Gap How close AI gets to the right answer, what it costs to close the gap, and why the checking keeps shrinking. Check, Edit, Own. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/the-ceo-gap.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/the-ceo-gap.md)) ### Three Generations of AI *New, 3rd June 2026* Chat, Agent, Employee. What you're managing at each level. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/three-generations.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/three-generations.md)) ### From What's True to What to Do Three facts, one decision, consequences either way. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-from-whats-true-to-what-to-do.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-from-whats-true-to-what-to-do.md)) --- ## Research and deep dives The workings behind an essay, published in full. Sources shown, so you can check them. ### The Environmental Cost of AI *New, 25th July 2026* What a prompt, a task and a day of AI actually cost in energy, carbon and water, and the subtraction that decides whether the work was worth it. Every number sourced. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-environmental-cost.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-environmental-cost.md)) ### How the AI Story Was Told *Updated, 3rd July 2026* Three and a half years of AI coverage across ten titles, from MIT Technology Review to McKinsey, charted. When each idea arrived, what faded, and where this email's arguments sit against the press. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/how-the-ai-story-was-told.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/how-the-ai-story-was-told.md)) ### We've Had This Conversation Before Is AI making us dumb? A long line of moral panics about new tools. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/weve-had-this-conversation-before.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/weve-had-this-conversation-before.md)) ### Futures and Fears: The Full Record *New, 18th July 2026* What twenty readers see coming, the fears from one week's postbag, and a practitioner panel on AI that remembers, perceives and acts on its own. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/futures-and-fears-full-record.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/futures-and-fears-full-record.md)) ### AI Deployment Atoms *Work in progress* The building blocks of AI capability and how they connect. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/atoms.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/atoms.md)) --- ## Guides and behind the scenes How to run the thing, and how this email itself gets made. ### Getting Executive Teams Hands-On with AI *New, 23rd July 2026* A planning guide for AI sessions at retreats and leadership conferences: six goals, what works, what doesn't, and six formats, from three and a half years of running them. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/executive-sessions.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/executive-sessions.md)) ### Turning It On *Work in progress* The agentic tools are here and most organisations have not switched them on. A roadmap for closing the gap, for the person whose job it is to close it. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/turning-it-on.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/turning-it-on.md)) ### How This Email Gets Made What's human, what's AI, and where the two overlap. https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/how-its-made.html ([markdown](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/how-its-made.md))