Structured activity design

Turn promising ideas into activities people can actually complete.

A structured design workspace for shaping creative programs, workshops, community exercises, and collaborative experiences—without extinguishing the original spark under layers of planning.

Launch tool: Activity Foundry (opens in a new tab) Download HTML for Activity Foundry, version 1.3.2

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Product
Activity Foundry
Release
Version 1.3.2
Status
Available
Runtime
Modern browser · file:// compatible
License
MIT
Activity Foundry interface showing its eight-stage workflow and idea playground

For community organizers, facilitators, moderators, program designers, and volunteer hosts turning an idea into a bounded, inviting activity.

Product context. This edition focuses on creative activities, workshops, and community events. The underlying planning methodology is equally applicable to meetings, facilitation, interviews, training, decision workshops, and other structured collaborative experiences.

  • Turn a promising concept into a clear activity brief with bounded participation and effort.
  • Stress-test accessibility, moderation, fairness, rights, resilience, and community value.
  • Plan a small pilot before committing to a full program or ongoing obligation.
  • Export proposals, announcements, draft files, and post-event archives for practical handoff.
  • Guided workflow
  • Local drafts
  • Exportable
  • Accessible
  • Offline-first
  • Structured activity design

Guided eight-stage workflow

Move from idea generation through activity design, readiness review, pilot planning, proposal, retrospective, and archive.

Operational stress test

Evaluate concrete risks including clarity, accessibility, moderation burden, fairness, rights, and resilience.

Useful exports

Create Discord-ready announcements, full Markdown briefs, draft JSON, and post-event archive packages.

Recoverable local drafts

Keep work on the device, import or export draft files, and continue without a hosted account.

The Foundry gives a promising idea enough structure to become actionable without turning planning into the point of the exercise.

  1. Explore or capture the initial spark.
  2. Shape participation, timing, effort, steps, constraints, and creative freedom.
  3. Assess readiness and define guardrails.
  4. Design the smallest useful pilot.
  5. Export a proposal, run the activity, and preserve what was learned.
Privacy and offline operation

Your work remains yours.

Drafts and interface state are stored in the visitor’s browser. Normal use does not require an account or send activity content to a backend; exported files remain under the visitor’s control.

The standalone HTML contains the built-in workflow and default idea matrix. An optional adjacent prompt-pack file can extend the matrix when hosted, but is not required for normal offline use.

Activity Foundry 1.3.2

Current standalone release · readable HTML · no installation required

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