The Method

The Method

Koòrdinated Thinking: a proposed method for working on a complex problem with a language model without the reasoning dissolving into the flow of the conversation. This document sets out its principles, its limits, and the rationale that supports it.

Human–AI working method · A proposal for a pragmatic collaborative methodology

Author: Team HITL & AI · Scope: structured human–AI working method · Status: proposal · Review: open · Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Contents

1. The problem of working with a model
2. The specification before the product
3. Declaring the boundaries, accepting good enough
4. The iterative dialogue and its open points
5. The decision log
6. The specification's anchors
7. Keeping the specification as it grows
8. Two ways to break the single perspective
9. Why the method holds
10. Where the method costs and where it falls short
11. From method to tool
12. In summary
13. References

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The chapters build on one another and the argument is cumulative, so the order is the one to follow on a first reading. Two later chapters are the ones people come back to: 08 · Two ways to break the single perspective, which is where the method departs from the practices it borrows from, and 10 · Where the method costs and where it falls short, which states what it does not claim.

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A proposal for a pragmatic collaborative methodology between humans and AI · Constitutive foundation for the Koòrd tool

UnmarkedPM & iride.ch SA · 07/2026 · v. 1.0

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