Evidence
Most of what this practice knows is already visible. The lab, the tools, the books, and the teaching simulations can be inspected before a conversation starts. That is deliberate: judgment you can check is worth more than a brochure.
A personal research lab running local, privacy-first AI on secondhand hardware. Benchmarks, hardware bills of materials, and notes on what fails. This is the evidence behind the data-sovereignty work.
A five-minute exercise that sorts AI tasks by consequence and precision. It shows where to trust the output and where a human has to stay in the loop. Use it before a Diagnostic to see how the judgment works.
The book that sets out the operating principle: AI assists, the human keeps the judgment. Free to download, CC BY 4.0, also on Amazon in Kindle and print.
The companion book on judgement for professionals who use AI at work. Free to read online. The Curtin Executive Education masterclass of the same name is delivered in Michael's academic role; the practice is independent and not endorsed by Curtin University.
A simulated firm recovering from a data breach, with AI staff and a story that releases over a term. Taught across five units. The same rehearsal method can be adapted for a firm preparing for a real governance change.
The method has a theoretical basis. The paper explains why human complexity-management strategies improve LLM output, and where the transfer breaks down. It is conceptual research, not a study of consulting outcomes.
Borck, M. (2026). Cognitive Strategy Transfer: Why Human Complexity-Management Strategies Improve Large Language Model Performance. Accepted at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2026), Perth, Australia.
This research was conducted in my academic role. The practice is independent and not endorsed by Curtin University.
The tools and books are free because the code is not the scarce part. Anyone can build a chatbot now. What is scarce is knowing which problem is worth solving, where the data may go, and when a human must sign off. Publishing the method keeps the practice honest and lets a buyer test the thinking before paying for it.
The method is published at notes.borck.consulting, and the source is on GitHub.