Opportunity assessment
Understand needs, current practices, audience segments and the outcomes that matter.
For partners, networks & communities
Design the program around
the people you serve.
New Manual works with associations, agencies, institutions and community networks to assess needs, run practical cohorts and support participants as they apply what they learn.
Understand before prescribing.
You already know your people, your mandate and the work that matters.
New Manual builds the AI adoption program around them.
Why the intermediary matters
Partners know who needs support and how to reach them.
Associations, economic-development organizations, educational institutions, workforce bodies, foundations, agencies and community networks can pool expertise, reduce vendor pressure and make support relevant to local conditions.
The partner contributes audience knowledge, trusted recruitment channels and continuity. New Manual designs the assessment, learning, implementation support and evaluation around those assets.
Programs can serve
Different people need different on-ramps.
Small businessesProfessional communitiesNonprofit leadersPublic-sector employeesStudents & graduatesJob seekersCareer changersPeople adapting to workforce change
Program components
What a 6–12 month program can include
Participants receive training, time to test a real task, implementation support and follow-up. Partners receive participation data, outcome reporting and materials they can use again.
Practical learning
Targeted sessions built around the work and circumstances of the people served.
Implementation support
Guided pilots, workflow coaching, office hours and expert referral where needed.
Peer learning
Cohorts, circles and demonstrations that make learning social and locally relevant.
Local capability
Facilitator development, reusable resources and support pathways that remain after delivery.
Outcome reporting
Reach, capability, application, implementation, human impact and sustainment—not attendance alone.
A partnership with clear roles
Brings the relationship.
- Mandate and audience knowledge
- Trusted recruitment channels
- Local context and constraints
- Convening power and continuity
- Existing assets and referral networks
Builds the adoption system.
- Assessment and segmentation
- Program and learning design
- Facilitation and guided practice
- Workflow implementation support
- Measurement and outcome reporting
Bring the work.
- Practical knowledge and lived context
- Real tasks and constraints
- Judgement about quality and relevance
- Voice in what changes
- Evidence from use
A 6–12 month pathway
A sample program sequence
- Listen + segment
Outcomes, audience groups, barriers, assets, partners and baseline conditions.
- Build foundations
Access routes, safe-use guidance, facilitator capacity, referrals and evaluation design.
- Learn through work
Targeted sessions built around real tasks, sectors and community circumstances.
- Implement
Guided pilots, office hours, peer circles and workflow documentation.
- Share + sustain
Outcome report, reusable assets, partner handoff and next-cohort design.
Authority and inclusion
Design for the differences inside the cohort
Programs must make room for different mandates, infrastructures, languages, risk profiles and starting points—and for communities to question assumptions or decide that an application does not fit.
Work involving First Nations must begin with Nation-specific authority, relationships, laws, governance, worldviews and protocols. OCAP® principles support First Nations information governance and data sovereignty; they are not a generic checklist to be applied by outside organizations.
A practical first step
Start with a 90-minute roundtable
Identify the groups to be served, what they are trying to do, what support already exists and which barriers a shared program could realistically remove.
Prepare the roundtable brief→