Your Templates Are Here.
Every template the WISER Method Master Playbook refers to, free to copy. Use the Notion workspace or the Google workbooks, whichever your team already works in. This site asks for no sign-up and no email; copying the Notion workspace needs a Notion account, and copying a Google workbook needs a Google account.
35 templates, 14 linked databases, and 4 printable reference cards, organized by chapter and Canon. The printable templates and their HTML sources are published under CC BY-SA 4.0 in the open repository. The Notion and Google copies are free for personal use, but they are hosted services and sit outside that license.
Start with Friction Mapping
New to WISER? Start in Witness, with the process everyone complains about.
- Watch it run. Sit with the people doing the work and note what they actually do, not what the documentation says they do. Every later step depends on this. Skip it, and everything downstream is speculation.
- Map the friction. For each place the work breaks down, write where it happens, what happens, who it affects, how people work around it today, and who showed you.
- Measure it. Note how much time each occurrence costs and how many times it happens in a working day. Convert a weekly count or a per-transaction rate to occurrences per day first, then multiply for the daily total.
- Rate it. Give each point High, Medium, or Low by its daily total, using the template’s criteria as a starting point and adjusting them to your volume.
- Name a hypothesis. Write down why you think each point exists, as a guess, not a finding. Testing those guesses is what Interrogate does next.
The Friction Map is in the Witness set below, in Notion and Google. The printable Friction Map needs no account at all.
Notion and Google templates
The WISER Method Starter Kit is an interactive Notion workspace: linked databases, guided content, and the context of each Play built into every section. Click Duplicate to make it yours. The Google workbooks hold the same templates, one workbook per chapter, with matching structure and validation dropdowns, and need no Notion account.
| Chapter | Set | What it is for | Templates | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Team Setup | Roles, responsibilities, and accountability before the first Canon begins | Team Roster, DACI Matrix, Position Handoff Checklist | Notion · Google |
| 11 | Playbook System | The charter, decision log, and risk register everything else runs on | Playbook Charter, Decision Log, Risk Register | Notion · Google |
| 12 | Witness | Map the friction people actually feel | Friction Map, Observation Notes, User Flow Map Guide | Notion · Google |
| 13 | Interrogate | Rapid experiments that find root causes before months of development | Assumption Inventory, Experiment Log, Rapid Prototyping Checklist | Notion · Google |
| 14 | Solve | One working solution that earns the organization’s trust | Value Validation Tracker, Pilot Planning Checklist, Objective Quality Framework, Human-in-the-Loop Protocol | Notion · Google |
| 15 | Expand | Scale the reach without scaling the risk | Context Assessments, Expansion Readiness Checklist, Deployment Gate Checklist | Notion · Google |
| 16 | Refine | Grow autonomy through evidence: watch for drift, test adversarially, graduate trust | Incident Log, Hierarchy of Agency, Red Team Test Plan, Drift Monitoring Checklist, Graduation Decision Framework | Notion · Google |
| 17 | Rhythm | The meetings, checkpoints, and reviews that keep the cadence | Meeting Notes, Team Rhythm Agenda, Canon Transition Checkpoint, Autonomy Graduation Review, After-Action Review | Notion · Google |
| 18 | Advanced Frameworks | Mental models for risk burn-down, self-improving systems, measurement, and the rebuild decision | Risk Burn-Down, Self-Improving Systems, Measurement That Enables Learning, The Rebuild Decision | Notion · Google |
| 19 | Creating Your Own Plays | When no existing Play fits, design one with the same structure | Play Template | Notion · Google |
Reference cards
Single-page PDFs to print and pin to the wall: the frameworks the book refers to most.
| Chapter | Card | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Position Reference Cards | The book’s seven Positions at a glance: tensions, decision rights, common role mappings, and dangerous combinations |
| 11 | Playbook Quick Reference | Playbook structure, maintenance rules, warning signs, and what each Canon adds |
| 13 | Experiment Type Selector | A decision tree for matching an assumption to one of six experiment types, with durations and prerequisites |
| 16 | Iteration Triggers Reference | Five iteration triggers, which Canon each sends you back to, and when a minor fix will do |
Each template sits beside the Play that uses it in the WISER Method Master Playbook.