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Amplified Judgment

A framework for AI transformationby Shaper Collective

AI Can Give the People With the Best Judgment More At-Bats

Amplified Judgment is Shaper Collective’s framework for AI transformation, from the CEO to the line. AI agents widen the analysis. The call stays with the people accountable for it.

Four Parts Make AI Stick Across Your Company

The four parts run as one integrated effort.

Sponsorship

01

Leadership Briefings

Builds the shared framework.

Experimentation

02

A Pilot on One Real Decision

Trains judgment on a real decision.

Measurement

03

AI Benchmark

Measures what works.

Curiosity

04

Weekly AI Newsletter

Builds a culture of curiosity.

Agents You Own

05

Built on your data and your experts' methods, they outlast any single AI model.

Amplified Judgment Gives Your Team Its Own AI Agents

Each decision runs through the same four steps, so it gets more at-bats and the accountable expert still makes the call.

The Amplified Judgment Loop

  1. Assign

    Set the question and the standard a good answer must meet.

  2. Analyze

    AI agents work the question with your context and skills.

    They show their work.

  3. Judge

    The accountable expert tests the recommendation and makes the call.

  4. Compound

    Corrections are recorded.

    The ones that recur become skills or checks for the next decision.

The Benchmark Shows What Moves Each Function Up a Level

The AI benchmark finds where each function stands today and which levers move it up.

  1. 5

    Frontier

    AI builds software and powers customer products.

  2. 4

    Connected and Agentic

    Agents carry work across connected company systems.

  3. 3

    Systematized Workflows

    Recurring work becomes reusable instructions and skills.

  4. 2

    AI Enabled

    Approved company AI accounts, data rules and employee training.

  5. 1

    Ungoverned Use

    Personal AI accounts without a company-wide approach.

A Framework Built on Years of Experience

Ben Newman has worked at the leading edge of AI adoption since the ChatGPT beta in 2022, alongside private equity operating partners and portfolio-company CEOs. Shaper Collective’s own agents handle research, listening and writing on live client work.

Where Amplified Judgment Fits

What is Amplified Judgment?

Amplified Judgment is Shaper Collective’s framework for approaching AI transformation, from the CEO to the line. Four layers work together: Sponsorship, Experimentation, Measurement and Curiosity. Each decision runs through a four-step loop: Assign, Analyze, Judge and Compound. AI agents widen the analysis, and the accountable expert makes the call.

Where does an engagement start?

We start with benchmarking. The AI benchmark shows where each function stands today and where AI can help next.

Can leaders get private AI coaching?

Yes. Leadership briefings cover critical AI topics whenever leaders want them, and they work on decisions the leader already knows well. The leader’s own work becomes the curriculum.

What happens to company data?

It stays under the company’s rules. The work runs on enterprise AI services under terms that keep client data out of model training. The client’s IT team approves every data connection.

What does the company keep?

AI agents it owns, built on its data and its experts’ methods. A reusable benchmark of AI across its functions. The skills and checks the loop records along the way, which carry over when a new AI model arrives.

Amplified Judgment Starts With the CEO

Amplified Judgment brings your judgment to AI, which is why the work begins with you.