Workshops for engineers,
product managers and designers
Simulate the decision before your team
has to live with it.
A one-hour, in-person workshop for up to 10 people. Write a working day after a decision, compare what different roles expect, and design checks to run before you commit.
Situation![Situation — a car beside a winding mountain coast.]()
Character![Character — a traveller carrying a backpack.]()
Emotion![Emotion — a person resting their head in their hands.]()
Lens![Lens — a camera lens framing a mountain landscape.]()
How the workshop works.
Choose a decision to see how we’d work through it.
Here’s how the workshop would explore that decision.
Write the day
Compare assumptions
Design a check
Leave with a check to run.
Illustrative workshop output- Decision
- Replace the old system while keeping customer support running.
- Assumption
- Someone else can handle a request when the usual maintainer is away.
- Next check
- Ask a colleague to resolve a sample request using the handover notes.
- Owner
- Support lead
- Evidence to collect
- Where they get stuck, what access is missing and how long it takes.
Want to practice a specific skill?
The example above shows the full workshop process. If you want more practice with one part, choose a focused session—on its own or as a follow-up.
What participants noticed
“You're uncovering what you didn't realize you already knew. It was on the fringes. You were there. You just didn't have it in front of mind until now.”
LinartChief of Staff at Act Two · Making Sense of the Future
April Adams
Keegan
Zaheer Merali
Sheli FrancisWorkshop pricing
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Long-term decision workshop
1 hr · Up to 10 participantsIn person
Explore the work of moving to the new system while the old one still needs support.
$2,500 USDPer team
Discuss a workshopYour team leaves with:
- A written scenario.
- Participant worksheets.
- A record of assumptions.
- Agreed checks and next actions.
Includes a short briefing call, prompts tailored to your team’s decision, and a summary prepared by Mohammad alongside participant-created notes.
Travel costs are additional and agreed before booking. Any applicable taxes are confirmed with your quote.
Try a decision scenario
Use four prompts to write a scene, find an assumption and choose a check.
Illustrative scenario—not a finding about your team.
Four prompts for your decision scenario.
Write the scene
Write from the Character’s point of view. Use the Situation and Emotion; the Lens tells you what to write.
Try a 90-second writing round, or take more time.
01:30
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Connect it to work
Read your scenario again, then answer four questions.
Your scenario
The scenario raises a question. A real-world check is still needed.
Your decision-check summary
Your notes, ready to use. The next step is to check the assumption in your work.
Submitting shares your scenario and answers with the workshop facilitator. Nothing is sent unless you choose to submit.
Why I built this for engineers
In robotics, a model has to hold up in the real world.
I’m Mohammad Khan, a robotics engineer whose work has included autonomous ground vehicles, prosthetics, soft robotics and robotic welding. A weekly fiction-writing practice led me to connect storytelling with engineering decisions.
I call the method Fictioneering: using short fictional scenarios to make assumptions easier to examine. I developed these exercises through sessions at The Sensemakers Club.
Calibration compares a model with reality. These exercises help teams notice what their plans assume about people, systems and time—and decide what needs checking.
Mohammad