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ADAPT® Program  ·  The Helix Group  ·  Announcing December 2026

The only toolkit that
thinks with you.

35 AI-powered tools. Five transformation clusters.
One platform that remembers everything you've built.

RELEASING
December
2026
35 AI-Powered Tools
5 Transformation Clusters
25+ Learning Paths Connected
0 Generic Outputs
verified Every tool produces a deliverable your organization can act on.  Not a score. Not a recommendation. A decision-ready output.
THE ADAPT® TOOLKIT DIFFERENCE
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Tools that compound
Each tool passes its output to the next. Your work accumulates — it doesn't reset.
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AI that challenges, not just assists
The AI doesn't validate what you already think. It pushes back on the assumptions that will cost you most.
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A complete record of your transformation
Everything saves to your account. Every quarter, every decision, every course correction — documented.
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Executive-ready outputs
Every tool produces something a C-level sponsor can read. Not data to interpret — clarity to act on.
construction What the ADAPT® Toolkit is

A practitioner platform. Not a worksheet collection.

Most transformation frameworks give you a model. The ADAPT® Toolkit gives you the actual work — structured, AI-guided, and connected across every dimension of your transformation from day one to the quarterly intelligence briefing your sponsor reads to understand where things actually stand.

The Toolkit covers five transformation domains: diagnosing what you are actually undertaking, making culture legible and actionable, building product strategy from the ground up, deploying AI where it creates genuine organizational value, and running continuous diagnostics against your own progress. Thirty-five tools. Each one produces something. Each output feeds the next.

This is not a scorecard or an awareness instrument. It is a transformation operating system — purpose-built for the organizations The Helix Group works with, grounded in the Seven Domains of Transformation research, and powered by the same AI infrastructure that runs every ADAPT® learning path.

star Why this is different

The market has frameworks.
We built tools.

Every other transformation program teaches you what to do. The ADAPT® Toolkit gives you the workspace to do it — and the AI to make sure you do it right.

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The output travels with you
Your diagnostic results, your product taxonomy, your OKRs, your operating model designs — every output is stored, versioned, and available to every tool that comes after it. Nothing is ever re-entered. Nothing is ever lost.
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The AI knows your context
When the AI challenges your OKRs, it knows your lifecycle stage. When it reviews your operating model, it has already read your culture profile. This is not general-purpose AI assistance. It is AI that has been working with you since your first tool.
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Designed to be uncomfortable
The AI is not configured to validate. It is configured to identify the gap between what you believe and what the evidence supports — before that gap costs you. "This could describe any company in any industry. What is specific to your customers?"
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Quarterly intelligence, not annual reports
The Toolkit generates a living intelligence document from every tool output — a 500-word executive briefing that synthesizes the full picture of your transformation each quarter. Written by AI, grounded in your data, formatted for the C-suite.
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Built on research, not opinion
Every tool is grounded in the Seven Domains of Transformation research, the Helix Capability Model™, and the Westrum organizational culture framework. The AI challenge questions aren't generated — they are drawn from documented failure modes in real transformations.
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No competing program has this
Learning programs teach transformation. Consulting firms execute it. The ADAPT® Toolkit builds the internal capability to lead it yourself — with AI that holds you to the standard the research says is required, not the standard that feels comfortable.
settings How the Toolkit works

Four principles. One platform.

The Toolkit is not a collection of independent tools. It is a platform with a deliberate architecture — designed so that each decision you make informs every decision that follows.

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Diagnose your actual starting point
Before any strategy or solution, the Toolkit establishes the ground truth — what kind of initiative you are actually running, what your culture will enable and obstruct, and where your organization's capability gaps are most dangerous. You don't decide where to start. The diagnostic does.
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Build with AI as your challenger
Each tool guides you through a structured build process — strategy, product architecture, OKRs, operating model, workforce planning. At each step, the AI challenges your thinking against the research. It names failure modes before you reach them, not after.
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Connect — every output feeds the next
Your culture profile is loaded when your operating model is designed. Your product taxonomy is present when your OKRs are written. Your workforce plan knows your roadmap. The tools share context automatically — so your work builds on itself instead of starting over.
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Synthesize into executive intelligence
Each quarter, the Toolkit reads every tool output and generates a strategic intelligence briefing for your C-level sponsor — where the transformation actually stands, what the evidence-backed risks are, and what decisions only executive authority can resolve. Downloadable as PDF.
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Every dimension of transformation. One toolkit.

The 35 tools are organized across five clusters — each one addressing a dimension of transformation that most organizations underinvest in, misdiagnose, or skip entirely. The clusters are designed to be worked in sequence, but every tool produces value on its own.

compare_arrows Cluster 1  ·  Transformation Intelligence
Diagnose before you act.
The most expensive mistake in transformation is misdiagnosing what you are actually undertaking. These tools establish the ground truth — what your initiative requires, where the organization stands, and what the readiness gap is between what leadership believes and what the people doing the work experience.
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Culture is either your asset or your obstacle.
You cannot mandate culture change. But you can measure where your culture actually is, surface the structural gaps that are suppressing learning and safety, identify the leadership behavioral signals that predict derailment, and intervene at the level of architecture rather than aspiration.
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inventory_2 Cluster 3  ·  Strategy & Product
From project thinking to product ownership.
Nine tools that work in sequence — from defining what your products actually are all the way to a living intelligence document about your entire portfolio. Each tool produces a structured result the next tool uses. By the end of the cluster, your C-level sponsor has a quarterly briefing that synthesizes everything.
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smart_toy Cluster 4  ·  AI Adoption & Governance
The 5% getting real value from AI spent 70% of their effort redesigning how work moves.
Ten tools that build the organizational capability that the $120K AI Delivery Lead role is being posted to supply — without the hire. From measuring actual AI adoption against license adoption, to designing governance before agents go live, to protecting the judgment your organization is inadvertently allowing AI to erode.
10 tools
monitor_heart Cluster 5  ·  Diagnostics
Pattern recognition before intervention.
The Helix Group's existing diagnostic suite — built before the ADAPT® Toolkit and now integrated into it. Run these before the other clusters to surface the patterns most worth addressing. Six tools available now on thehelixgroup.net.
6 tools · live now

Every learning program teaches you what good looks like. The ADAPT® Toolkit gives you a workspace to build it — with AI that holds you to the standard the research requires, not the standard that feels comfortable.

THE HELIX GROUP  ·  ADAPT® PROGRAM
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The Toolkit and the Learning Program
are one system.

They were designed together. The Learning Program teaches you the frameworks. The Toolkit gives you the workspace to apply them — in your organization, on your actual challenges, with AI that knows which path you're on.

route Learning paths connect directly to tools
Every tool in the Toolkit links to the ADAPT® learning paths that built its methodology. Complete a path and the Toolkit gives you the workspace to practice what you learned — not in a simulation, but in your actual organization.
Agility Activation paths connect to the Impediment Archaeology Workbench
Execution Discipline connects to the OKR and roadmap tools
AI Decision-Making paths power the entire AI cluster
Leadership paths connect to the behavioral signal and safety tools
science Quests become real experiments
The Quest Design Lab elevates the structured experiments ADAPT® puts after every learning module from reflection exercises into rigorous organizational experiments — with AI that helps you design, predict, run, and debrief each one. The Quest record feeds your Journey Board.
analytics Tool outputs prove learning is working
Running the Capability Gap Scanner at the start of your ADAPT® engagement and again at six and twelve months produces the before-and-after evidence the program promises. The Toolkit is not just where you apply the learning — it is how you prove the learning created change.
HOW LEARNING BECOMES CAPABILITY
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ADAPT® Learning Path
25 paths across agility, leadership, strategy, AI, product, and culture. Cohort-based. Quest-driven.
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Quest Design Lab
Design a real organizational experiment. AI helps structure the hypothesis, predict the outcome, and prepare the debrief.
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ADAPT® Toolkit
Apply the framework in your organization using the tool built for exactly that path. The AI knows your context from day one.
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Outputs saved to your account
Every tool output is stored. Results from Cluster 1 are present in Cluster 3. Your transformation has a running record.
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Quarterly Intelligence Document
AI synthesizes every output into an executive briefing. Risks named. Decisions required. Downloadable PDF.
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Capability Gap Scanner — Rescan
Six and twelve months later: the before-and-after evidence that proves ADAPT® created organizational change, not just awareness.
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Start before December.

The Toolkit's Cluster 5 — Diagnostics — is live now on thehelixgroup.net through the Resource Hub. Six tools that surface the patterns most worth addressing before any transformation intervention begins. Run them now. Your results will be waiting when the full Toolkit launches.

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Active Inertia Diagnostic™
Identifies which of the five Active Inertia traps are operating in your organization — the patterns that made you successful and are now blocking what comes next.
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Capability Theater Detector™
Surfaces where your organization is performing transformation activity without producing transformation outcomes — and names the specific gap between ceremony and capability.
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Transformation Readiness Map™
A visual assessment of readiness across key organizational dimensions — showing where the transformation has organizational support and where it will meet the most resistance.
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Leadership Decision Simulator™
Scenario-based decision simulator that surfaces the leadership patterns operating in your own behavior before they become visible to the people you lead.
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Transformation Portfolio Stress Test™
Evaluates whether your transformation portfolio is coherent — or a collection of initiatives competing for more change capacity than your culture can absorb.
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OKR Practice Tool
Hands-on OKR design and evaluation environment. Guides practitioners through writing and stress-testing OKRs against the 12 characteristics of metrics that actually work.
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ADAPT® TOOLKIT  ·  DECEMBER 2026

Be ready for December.

The ADAPT® Toolkit launches in December 2026 for ADAPT® Learning Program members. The earlier you start the Learning Program, the more context the Toolkit has to work with from day one.

ADAPT® Toolkit · Releasing December 2026 · The Helix Group LLC