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Use the pillars as a lens on your team, then test one idea with colleagues.

Three steps

  1. Describe your team or organisation honestly, without names or personal data.
  2. Ask the assistant to read it through each pillar.
  3. Take one question — not a plan — to your next team meeting.

Prompts to copy

Attach Essential Foundations or paste a pillar, fill in the [brackets], and leave out names or sensitive details. Your assistant is a thinking partner, not an oracle. Use it to clarify, spark ideas, and prepare real conversations — then decide yourself.

Before you start

2Or paste a pillar at the end of your message:

Pillar lens on my team

I've attached Essential Foundations of Summanitism, or pasted one pillar at the end of this message. Here is a short, anonymised description of my team or organisation: [description]. For each of the six pillars, tell me in one or two sentences where it is already alive and where it seems missing. Be concrete and modest.

Attach: Essential Foundations (PDF), or paste one pillar.

Where does it not flow?

I've attached Essential Foundations of Summanitism, or pasted one pillar at the end of this message. Using the Hydraulic Society idea (health measured by flow, not accumulation) and the Covenant of Asymmetry (whoever has more capacity carries more responsibility to build the bridge), help me spot where knowledge, recognition or resources get stuck in this organisation: [description]. Suggest one small way to let one of them circulate.

Attach: Essential Foundations (PDF), or paste one pillar.

Reward building, not only blame

I've attached Essential Foundations of Summanitism, or pasted one pillar at the end of this message. Using Sumocracy ("governance that rewards building as much as it corrects harm"), suggest three ways our team could recognise people who build, alongside how we handle mistakes. Our context: [context].

Attach: Essential Foundations (PDF), or paste one pillar.