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 Claude-shaped and not
How to apply the checker test 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 the fiction-that-reads-like-competence failure
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