The Patternist

Making human pattern recognition
a trainable skill.

Work with me See the patterns I'm tracking

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PTN.01 · The gap

Everything is running. Nothing is moving.

Tap the ones happening in your business.

What looks like a tech problem, a process problem or a people problem is usually one thing:

Bloat, burying the pattern.

The 20% that moves everything is under there. I find it. We cut the rest.

PTN.02 · The method

Marketing taught me people patterns. Software Engineering taught me system patterns. Product Leadership taught me market patterns. Entrepreneurship taught me decision patterns. Four careers, one curriculum. Then I became my own longest running experiment. For 18 years I've documented how I think, learn, make decisions and recognize patterns. The result: my mission to make pattern recognition a trainable skill.

The curriculum never ended. Coming next in the research: how the best in each field see what others miss.

Incoming

Mathematicswhere patterns get formal Neurosciencethe hardware that runs them Psychologywhy we see what isn't there Biologyfour billion years of prior art Artificial intelligencepattern recognition, industrialised Military strategyreading intent from fragments Medicinediagnosis is pattern under pressure Investingpaying for the pattern early Designmaking the pattern visible

PTN.03 · Work with me

Cut until only the pattern is left. Act on it.

For businesses

The Pattern Sprint

Twenty minutes to see if there's a pattern worth three weeks of my full attention. Bring the area that's buried: the system that overbloated, the legacy that drags, the one part slowing everything else. I'll tell you straight whether I see a pattern I can cut to, and whether a Pattern Sprint is the right move. If it's not, I'll say so. No pitch, no pressure.

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PTN.04 · The Brain

They called me "The Brain" at school.

On exam day I'd finish my paper, then solve the other versions and pass the answers around. When I was absent, my classmates missed me. I genuinely thought everyone's brain worked this way.

At fourteen I took a motor engine apart because I wanted to understand how it worked. That instinct never disappeared.

Take it apart. Understand the mechanism. Put it back together.

I don't like black boxes.

Whether it's people, businesses, products or decisions, I keep asking the same question:

What's the underlying pattern?

I didn't know this question would take me through four careers and eventually become my life's work.

Nadja Gujer · The Patternist

Everything is running. Nothing is moving.

Cut until only the pattern is left. Act on it.

The Pattern Sprint

They called me "The Brain" at school.

Watch the pattern-work as it happens.