03The Method
The OWNABLE Extraction Method.
Five phases. Thirty days. One outcome: the proven, profitable processes inside the owner's head become protocols the business can run without them. The method is identical whether the protocol will be delegated to a team member or deployed as an autonomous AI agent — that's the whole point.
PHASE 01
Discover
Map every process that currently lives in your head.
We sit with the owner for a structured working session that surfaces the proven, profitable workflows that have never been written down. Sales motions. Delivery sequences. The judgment calls only you make. The output is a prioritized list of ProfitFlows ranked by which Hidden Tax they relieve first.
PHASE 02
Document
Convert each one into a followable ProfitFlow.
Each process is rewritten as a ProfitFlow blueprint with explicit trigger, inputs, owner, SLA, success metric, and ordered steps. The artifact is intentionally specified at the granularity an autonomous agent would need — because we're going to give it to one eventually.
PHASE 03
Protect
Lock it as IP — versioned, owned, transferable.
The ProfitFlow is checked into the client's protocol library, versioned, and timestamped. Ownership is the client's, not ours. Every revision is auditable. If you leave the service tomorrow, the IP stays with you.
PHASE 04
Prove
Run it without you. Measure the output. Refine.
The ProfitFlow runs in production — without the owner in the loop. We measure against its declared success metric (close rate, cycle time, defect rate, whatever was specified). Edges and exceptions are caught and folded back into v1.1, v1.2, v1.3.
PHASE 05
Delegate
Hand it off — to your team, or to an agent.
Same artifact, two destinations. Hand the protocol to a team member and you have a delegatable process. Wire it into an Anthropic-managed agent and you have a 24/7 autonomous execution with human-in-the-loop oversight. The choice is yours, and you can change it later — the spec doesn't change.
Why these five phases.
Most operating-system frameworks stop at Document. The result is a binder no one reads. The OWNABLE method requires Prove before Delegate — a written protocol that has never run without the owner is not a protocol, it's a wish. And the same artifact that proves out with a human is the spec an agent can execute.
Why agent-ready by default.
The granularity required by an autonomous agent — explicit trigger, input schema, ownership, SLA, success metric, exception paths — happens to be exactly the granularity a delegatable process needs. Build for the agent and the human gets a better SOP for free. Build for the human and the agent gets garbage.