ExplAIn

Module 00 · Applied exercise

System map worksheet

Product
Group

The model generates. The system does. Fill every box for your product. If you can’t tell where something lives, write it down with a question mark and bring it to the discussion.

Context

What does the model see on each call?

Knowledge

Where do facts and documents come from?

Memory and state

What persists between turns or sessions?

Tools and actions

What can it do in the world? Who executes it?

Model

What does the model itself do here, and nothing more?

Orchestration

What steps or loops happen around model calls?

Guardrails

What may it see and do? What stops it?

Evaluation

How would anyone know it got worse?

Interface

Where do people meet it?

Which box surprised your group?

One thing people blame on “the AI” that is really the system