Minimum Viable Soul®
A provisional preservation floor for human agency, meaningful judgment, dignity, competence, relationship and remedy — never a target for minimising people.
Operating System for Knowledge, Ethics and Imagination
OSKEI®, registered trade mark
Discover the opportunity. Illuminate the path.
A free guided method for exploring possibilities, challenging assumptions and making better decisions about technology and innovation.
One problemThree perspectivesTwo safeguardsOne reasoned next step
The method
Begin with the goal. Then widen the field of view.
OSKEI separates the outcome an organisation wants from the technology it first imagined. Three perspectives develop the opportunity before judgment draws a route forward.
- 01
Knowledge
What is established, assumed or still missing?
Separate evidence from assertion, examine its quality and make the next useful investigation explicit.
- 02
Ethics
Who benefits, who carries the burden and what is owed?
Bring affected people, fairness, privacy, accessibility, dignity and recourse into the decision early.
- 03
Imagination
What else could work — including changing the problem?
Reveal credible alternatives: prevention, service redesign, human augmentation and simpler non-AI routes.
Two safeguards
Progress that preserves what must remain human.
Benefits do not average away rights, safety or the authority required for a consequential institutional decision.
Angel-in-the-Loop®
A persistent constitutional control plane for institutional AI: authority, evidence gating, binding escalation and lifecycle oversight.
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Start from a real organisational question.
These fictional starting points demonstrate the range of the method. Your check will adapt to the context and answers you provide.
01Local authority
A better route through complaints
Explore prevention, staff augmentation and carefully bounded automation without confusing a promising route with authority to deploy.
Explore this idea02Charity
Stronger donor relationships
Look beyond mass automation to better evidence, supporter journeys, accessibility and relationship-preserving options.
Explore this idea03Growing business
Customer service that learns
Examine demand, service quality and cashable value while keeping escalation and accountable judgment visible.
Explore this idea04Property organisation
More intelligent lease operations
Consider data quality, tenant experience, workflow redesign and proportionate technology-assisted management.
Explore this ideaDeterministic by design
Explainable guidance. Reproducible reasoning. No hidden AI judgment.
Structured answers are evaluated against versioned, visible rules. The same inputs and rule version produce the same pathway. Your narrative notes remain notes; OSKEI does not silently interpret them.
Local-first and free
No account, subscription or AI inference. Assessment answers can remain in this browser and may be cleared at any time.
A route, not a verdict
OSKEI does not certify, approve deployment, verify evidence or provide legal advice. It helps people understand what to examine and what could happen next.
Think deeply. Act responsibly. Imagine boldly.