Questions, answered.

Do I have to pay to use Of One?

No. The method is published openly, and the exercise at of1.ai/ask is free. It runs in your browser with no AI, and nothing leaves your device unless you choose to send your map.

What does the free exercise give me?

A first map of one decision from your own answers: what you know, how sure you are and which gaps to examine next. Optional follow-up questions help you challenge the map and name the person who must approve a move you cannot undo. Work through it at your own pace.

When is a Consult block worth it?

When the decision is costly or hard to undo, and you want coaches to run the method with you and challenge your map. A block is $2,000 for five hours, and the free exercise is a good way to find out first.

What is Of One?

Of One is an open method for hard decisions, published by Utlyze. It has three moves: ask the questions that could change the decision, map what you find, and make the move the map supports. Its premise is that underneath every field, a decision has the same shape. It maps each field onto the same ten building blocks, and it also runs as an AI skill.

How does Of One choose the next question?

By how much the answer could change the decision, against its cost, time and risk. The best candidates stay on a shortlist, and the list is redrawn after every answer. When questions stop moving the decision, it changes tactics.

What are the ten building blocks?

The pieces Of One breaks any situation into before it uses the field’s words: the situation, the lens you read it through, the pieces, close-ups of any part, the gaps, the moves, the links, the loops, the constants that hold across lenses and reruns, and the gates. Each field’s language is translated onto them.

When does Of One give an answer?

Only when the map has passed its checks and its stop rules hold: for example, no question worth asking is left, no gap blocks the decision unless a named person has accepted the risk, and no contradiction that matters is open. The answer is drawn from the map, with its sources, gaps and sign-offs.

What does “it can’t grade its own work” mean?

Run with its toolkit, the software picks the next question, requires a source for every answer, seals the record so it cannot be quietly edited, and decides whether the work may stop. With the skill alone, an AI follows the same rules as instructions and checks its map against the written list.

What goes on a decision map?

Facts with where they came from and how fresh they are, claims with how sure you are, named unknowns, kill tests, the links between them, options marked reversible or not, the tradeoffs between options, triggers that would reopen the map, and human gates. The answer you read is drawn from the map.

What is bedrock?

Where asking why can stop: deep enough to decide, a cause you can check or change, a law, rule or definition, a value you choose, a limit of authority, plain chance, the limit of what can be seen, the edge of the question, or a risk you accept on purpose. Each stop says why it is deep enough and what would reopen it. It is never a claim to final truth.

What is a kill test?

The result that would prove a claim wrong. In Of One, every strong claim carries one, so the map shows how each claim could fail.

What is a human gate?

A move a named person must approve before it happens: anything legal, medical, financial, safety-related, touching rights, jobs, education, public policy or reputation, or hard to undo. An AI can prepare it. A person signs.

Can an AI use Of One?

Yes. The method is packaged as an AI skill: the AI builds the map first, checks it with the skill’s validator (the program where it can run, its written checks where it cannot), and only then writes the answer. The skill and its checks are open source on GitHub.

Is Of One proven to work better?

Not yet. Its public benchmark is unfinished: at the current freeze, 52 of 90 predeclared runs were completed and locally reviewed. Its own checks excluded its first full-method runs, and those exclusions are published. Of One does not claim a win it has not earned.

How much does help cost?

Consult is $400 an hour, in 5-hour blocks. Build is $15,000 a month. Each month, pick up to 5 business processes for our build-with-you coaches to work on. They build your AI systems with you and teach your team to run them. If you ever leave, the systems stay with you. Agents work only on your systems, and a shared 24/7 on-call rotation answers, with written response times. Build has a three-month minimum: $45,000 at the base level. Higher tiers and separately quoted work cost more.

How is this related to Business of One?

Business of One (businessofone.ai) and its sister sites are Utlyze sites built on the Of One method. Of One is the method; each of those sites brings it, with the same offers, to one audience.

How do I start?

Try the free tool at of1.ai/ask on one real decision. It starts with eight questions, ranks what is still open by a simple rule (what the answer could change against what it costs to find out), and shows when nothing you have rated still blocks the decision. It runs in your browser and sends nothing unless you choose to. Or use the form at the end of the home page.

What happens after I enquire, and what is the minimum commitment?

Send a short description of your work, then choose a time to talk or wait for our reply. The enquiry does not buy a service. We agree scope and price before paid work. Consult: 5-hour block · $2,000 minimum. Build: Three-month minimum · $45,000 minimum commitment. Build Plus is $25,000 a month ($75,000 minimum); Build Program is $50,000 a month ($150,000 minimum). New software products and core-system replacement are quoted separately.