Patterns
The Nutropic framework's four cognitive patterns (Partnership, Delegation, Agency and Utility) name the four structurally distinct ways human and AI can share a piece of cognitive work.
Anatomy
The vocabulary the Nutropic framework uses to describe the structure of cognitive work
Anatomy names what AI work looks like structurally: the four cognitive patterns, the six aspects that decompose each pattern, the eight phases that decompose any unit of cognitive work, and the workflow as the unit at which the framework is applied.
Overview
Four ways of naming the structure of cognitive work
- The framework decomposes cognitive work along several orthogonal axes. Each names a structural property of human-AI work that practitioners can identify before deciding what to do with it.
- The four cognitive patterns name the structural shape of a human-AI relationship. The six aspects decompose each pattern into its component characteristics. The eight phases trace the temporal modes any unit of cognitive work passes through.
- Workflow names the bounded slice of organisational work the framework is applied to, with composition as its load-bearing principle. Together these vocabularies give practitioners the language to describe what AI work is before deciding what to do with it.
Layers
The four layers of the anatomy
Each layer is a distinct vocabulary for the structure of cognitive work, applied in combination by practitioners reading a workflow.
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Aspects
Six aspects that distinguish the four cognitive patterns: Decisions, Ownership, Execution, Initiation, Direction and Supervision.
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Phases
Eight cognitive phases any unit of AI work passes through: Exploration, Scoping, Planning, Execution, Validation, Refinement, Delivery and Reflection.
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Workflow
A workflow is a bounded slice of organisational work defined by its inputs, outputs, decisions, supervision and accountability. Workflows compose: real ones are composites of component workflows, each separately allocated to one of the four cognitive patterns.
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