TomorrowWork · the companion site

The Living Tunnel

The book gave you the method — five moves, four postcards, a grid, and a plan you made. This page is the part that moves: the current, sourced state of the AI climate, refreshed every quarter so your plan never gets tested against last year's weather. Prepare, never predict — but be current.

The quarter in six numbers

Every figure sourced and dated. If a number has no date, don't trust it — here or anywhere.

The builder barometer

Chapter 3 · Tool 3 — the toolmakers live about six months ahead of every market they're about to rearrange

One question, asked monthly: what did the builders just stop doing by hand? Here's the current answer, plus the capability readings behind it.

What builders stopped doing by hand this quarter

The task audit, repriced

Chapter 3 · the three piles — what the labour data currently says about Falling, Holding and Rising

Your piles are yours; nobody's spreadsheet knows your job. But the piles have market prices, and the prices moved this quarter. Use these to pressure-test your sort — not to replace it.

Falling — going cheap
    Holding — staying human, structurally
      Rising — more valuable because the falling pile got cheap

        Adoption: the deployment gap

        Context for every postcard — capability is not the same as deployment, and the gap between them is where your time comes from
        Organisations
        People

        Personalise before use — your lanes

        Chapter 7 · Tool 7 — "The Acceleration reads differently for a Manchester employment lawyer than for a Berlin UX designer"

        The postcards below are the base set; the test only works on futures specific enough to feel weather on your skin. Name the industry you're in — and, if you're eyeing a move, the one you'd cross to. The page blends your lane's evidence into your read-out, with the weighting shown. If your industry isn't on the board, the desk-research brief at the bottom gets you the same answer by hand.

        The four postcards — this quarter's readings

        Chapter 7 · Tools 7–9 — the wind tunnel's test rigs, with the dials set to today

        The postcards are test rigs, not predictions — you still don't get to choose which future arrives. But each quarter the evidence moves, and the dials below say which way. Tick the signals you've noticed from your own seat; your personal read-out builds at the bottom. Then take the question in each dark box to the matching column of your grid.

        Your read-out

        This quarter's weather, your lane, and the signals you've ticked — blended, weighting shown. The start of your 90-minute quarterly review, not the end of it

        The horizon: two to five years out

        What serious forecasters currently expect — held lightly, dated clearly

        This quarter, in one paragraph

        The bulletin in brief — the full issue travels separately

        Changelog