Field Map and Install
The map finds the right move. The Install puts one move into the work.
A Field Map and an Install are different jobs. Doing the second before the first usually means automating a guess.
Field Map
The Field Map is the research and the Brain Build. It answers where AI belongs, what the usual explanation gets wrong, and which moves are worth ranking. It takes about two weeks and costs $3,500.
The work starts with the people doing the job. MissionField talks with them, reviews examples, and ranks 3–5 practical recommendations. Each one says what to do, why it matters, and how you will know it helped. That decision is Fit.
You should be able to open the Brain Build after the map and keep editing it. The map can stand on its own. You do not have to buy an Install. The plan may include using a tool you already have or fixing the process first. If a simpler process is the better fix, the map should say so.
Install
An Install takes one ranked move and puts it into the real workflow. Someone is named to run it. The instructions live with the work. Install starts at $5,000 because the size of that change varies.
If you start an Install within 30 days of the Field Map, the $3,500 fee credits toward it.
How the phases show up in the workspace
The workspace tracks an engagement through these phases, in order:
- Inquiry
- Discovery
- Field Map
- Fit
- Install
- Ongoing
- Complete
Fit is the decision between the map and the build. It is the ranked list of 3–5 practical recommendations, and where each move gets a yes, a not yet, or a no. Those recommendations show in the workspace after Scott publishes them. The working note he uses before that stays on the team side. Ongoing is the retainer period, when you check whether the change earned its keep.
Your home screen describes the current phase in a sentence and shows the same strip. You do not drag cards. That board is on the team side.