Structured activity design

Turn an ambiguous collaborative idea into a clear, bounded activity.

A structured design workspace for framing an activity, defining success, shaping participation and flow, assessing readiness, and sharing a practical plan.

Launch tool: Activity Foundry (opens in a new tab) Download HTML for Activity Foundry, version 1.5.0

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Product
Activity Foundry
Release
Version 1.5.0
Status
Available
Runtime
Modern browser · file:// compatible
License
MIT
Activity Foundry showing a completed example, all eight stages, and the generalized readiness assessment

For team leads, facilitators, organizers, program designers, and people responsible for turning a shared need into a usable activity.

Product context. Activity Foundry supports meetings, workshops, learning activities, events, projects, discussions, and recurring collaborative work. It begins with the change the activity should enable, then helps make the experience workable for the people involved.

  • Capture and frame the purpose, participants, boundaries, and desired outcome before building an agenda.
  • Shape participation, effort, roles, timing, materials, and a readable five-phase flow.
  • Assess readiness across accessibility, capacity, safety, fairness, and operational resilience.
  • Share decision-ready documents, participant guidance, runbooks, JSON drafts, and ZIP bundles.
  • Guided workflow
  • Local drafts
  • Exportable
  • Accessible
  • Offline-first
  • Readiness assessment

Guided eight-stage workflow

Move from framing through success, participation, flow, readiness, first-run planning, sharing, and review.

Operational stress test

Evaluate purpose, participants, inclusion, capacity, fairness, safety, and operational resilience with clear readiness bands.

Useful exports

Create a decision brief, participant message, facilitator runbook, archive, draft JSON, and portable ZIP bundles.

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. Capture and frame the activity, then define the desired change.
  2. Define success, then shape participation and the flow.
  3. Stress-test readiness and plan the first run.
  4. Share a decision brief, participant message, and facilitator runbook.
  5. Review evidence, preserve what was learned, and decide what happens next.
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.

Ships as one readable HTML file with no runtime dependencies. The complete eight-stage workflow works directly from file:// with no server, account, or internet connection.

Activity Foundry 1.5.0

Current standalone release · readable HTML · no installation required

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