# The WIRE Method, written down for the first time.

Source: https://thewiremethod.com/book
Site: The WIRE Method
Tagline: AI that works inside the business.
Founder: Richard Batt
Contact: hello@thewiremethod.com

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The book

# The WIRE Method, written down for the first time.

A book about the work behind AI that actually runs. Sixty-three thousand words, eighteen chapters, and every named pattern in the framework. £6, instant PDF.

## What the book argues

The book makes a simple claim. Eighty percent of AI projects fail, and the autopsy is almost always wrong. The technology gets blamed because it is the visible variable. The actual cause is operational, and it is the same three gaps every time. The book is the long-form case for that argument, and the field manual that closes the gaps.

It is written in the case-study tradition of Jim Collins and Robert Cialdini. Every chapter opens with a real implementation, names the pattern that emerged, and leaves the reader with a tool they can use before they finish the chapter. All cases are real and anonymised at the sector and staff-count level.

## The named patterns

Eighteen chapters. Eighteen named patterns. A short selection from the table of contents. The full method, in your inbox in minutes.

- **Intro: The Monday Morning Test**. The fifteen-minute diagnostic that finds the work waiting to be automated.
- **Ch 1: The Wrong Autopsy**. Why the post-mortems on failed AI projects almost always blame the wrong thing.
- **Ch 2: The Silent Drift**. The version of AI adoption that looks like progress and is a more expensive version of the same problem.
- **Ch 3: The 89 Percent Illusion**. The adoption figure is real. The interpretation is wrong.
- **Ch 4: The Electrician, Not the Professor**. On hiring people who write strategy decks versus people who wire the building so the lights turn on.
- **Ch 6: The Time Tax**. The calculation method that gives every manual process a real cost.
- **Ch 8: The Fastest Win**. Why the right first build is not the biggest opportunity.
- **Ch 10: The Minimum Viable Automation**. The first build cadence that works in days, not quarters.
- **Ch 11: The Four Breaks**. The four failure modes every running automation eventually hits.
- **Ch 12: The Bus Test**. The question that decides whether the build is finished.
- **Ch 14: The Freed Hours Flywheel**. The compounding pattern that follows good embeds.
- **Ch 17: The First Circuit**. The Monday morning client, twelve months on.

## Get the book

The full method, 206 pages. Instant PDF download for £6.