CU-BOM doesn’t replace Kepner-Tregoe, Six Sigma, or your own decision matrix. It’s the layer those methods were never built to have — the one that tells you when to trust the gut, and when your gut has spotted something the matrix missed.
Every tool below is real, independently documented, and imperfect on its own. CU-BOM’s job is routing — matching the right tool to the right situation, and refusing to run it when the safeguard fails.
Kill a project on paper before you kill it for real — surface hidden risk while it's still fictional.
Freeze your scoring matrix, sleep on it, then compare the gut vote against the score.
A forced ten minutes between a crisis and your response, borrowed from aviation crew training.
Strip friction to convert volume; add it back deliberately to filter for lead quality.
Everything on this site is meant to be used without hiring anyone — read it, check the safeguard, run the tool with your own team.
Match what’s actually happening — a launch, a stuck vendor call, a crisis, a leaky funnel — to the tool built for it.
Every tool has a go/no-go condition — a psychological-safety score, an expertise threshold, a time-pressure read. Skipping this is the most common way these tools fail.
The playbook has the worksheet, the invite text, and the follow-up email already written — fill in the brackets and send.
CU-BOM was written for businesses with a handful of people wearing several hats and no time for a six-week change program — the kind of team structure most NZ SMEs already run.
The full playbook — the routing matrix, all four safeguards, and every ready-to-send template — is free to read. Bookmark it, share it, or copy it into your own team’s docs.