The book
Be an AI-Era ADAPTOR
A Step-by-Step Process to Find Your Value and Plan Your Next Move in the Age of AI
By Billy Kan
A guided way to put ADAPTOR to work.
ADAPTOR is a free framework. The book makes it easier to apply and helps you work through it more effectively, with a guided assessment, worked examples, and practical support for turning your thinking into a plan.
- A ten-scenario assessment to help identify and sense-check your Work Profile mix.
- Seven profile-specific chapters on building a personal AI-Era SWOT, with five recurring people and their evolving decisions.
- Examples for connecting real Threats and Opportunities to goals across three time horizons.
- Action planning, milestones for longer-term goals, and a quarterly review process.
- Practical chapters on learning AI with a goal, showing evidence of value, talking about change at work, and responding when a role is already at risk.
The book is useful if you would rather work through the method with more explanation, examples, and prompts in one place. You can also complete the whole process using the free website guide.
Available on Amazon as a Kindle eBook and paperback. The Kindle eBook is also available to Kindle Unlimited members.
View the book on AmazonHow the workbook supports the book
Companion workbook included with the book.
The ADAPTOR Framework Workbook is a Google Sheet companion designed to help book readers keep their work in one place as they move through the chapters. It supports the process; it is not a requirement for using the free framework.
- Profile Assessment: work through ten scenarios, then record a primary, secondary, supporting, or desired profile.
- AI-Era SWOT: organise Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats with evidence from your work.
- Goal Bank: connect selected SWOT signals to short-, medium-, and long-term goals.
- Actions: link actions and milestones to goals, then record dates, progress, and review notes.
Access instructions are in the book. The public ADAPTOR Starter Sheet is a separate, shorter resource for mapping one activity without an email form.
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What the book can and cannot do
A plan for better decisions, not a promise about the outcome.
The book does not predict exactly which jobs will change or guarantee job security. It gives you a structured way to examine your position, gather evidence, consider options, and take steps you can review.
You do not need to be an AI specialist to use the framework. The focus is your work, the value you create, and the choices available to you.
Read the complete free framework