FunctionAnalysis.app
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Start a function analysis

You’re about to turn a process, system or product into a clean list of functions: what it does, not what it is. An AI coach guides each step.

What you’ll do

Four steps, with AI coaching to help get the functions in the right format along the way.

1

Subject

Name the product, process or system you want to analyse.

2

Brainstorm

List your current understanding of the functions. The AI coach checks each input.

3

Basic function

Confirm the one function that matters most, and surface the higher-order ‘why’ and the mission.

4

Export

Export your function list, or print function cards to use in a workshop.

You’ll come away with a verb-noun function list, ready to export, print as workshop cards, or build into a full function diagram.

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A worked example

Maritime weather forecast

This is what the process produces: a clean, verb-noun list of the functions a marine forecast performs.

Your output: a function listVerb-noun functions

You can then use the function list to help build out your function diagram ↓

MARITIME WEATHER FORECAST HOW WHY Enable voyage-planning Prevent danger HIGHER-ORDER FUNCTIONS To give everyone going to sea a clear, timely picture of the conditions ahead MISSION STATEMENT BASIC FUNCTION Interpret simulation-results Simulate atmosphere Aggregate observations Predict wind-strength Predict sea-state Predict visibility OBSERVATION INPUTS Satellite imagery Weather stations Weather radar Moored buoys / ships
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