The Mantle Institute — Content Catalog
type: Catalog
description: A W3C DCAT catalog of all published content from The Mantle Institute: essays, interactive resources, playbook skills, future role profiles, and knowledge references on human agency in the AI era.
publisher: The Mantle Institute
issued: 2026-06-11
modified: 2026-06-12
language: en
dataset: The Mantle Institute — Writing
dataset: Wren and the Shoal
dataset: The Worker
dataset: The Mantle Institute — Playbook Skills
dataset: The Mantle Institute — Future Roles
dataset: The Mantle Institute — Knowledge References

The Mantle Institute
type: Organization

The Mantle Institute — Writing
type: Dataset
description: Essays and analysis on human agency, AI adoption, and the future of work.
publisher: The Mantle Institute
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
language: en
keyword: AI adoption
keyword: human agency
keyword: future of work
keyword: transformation
distribution: RSS 2.0 Feed
  type: Distribution
  access URL: https://mantleinstitute.com/feed.xml
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distribution: DCAT Catalog (this document)
  type: Distribution
  access URL: The Mantle Institute — Content Catalog
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record: Four things leaders must get right on automation and AI
record: Creed Before Capability
record: When the Scaffolding Becomes the Job: Notes from a Fortnight of Operational AI
record: You Were Made For This
record: The Ocean Ecosystem: A Post-Transformation Paradigm for AI
record: Origin and destination
record: On building AI that activates rather than replaces
record: Towards more than human
record: Who's building the next SMEs?

Four things leaders must get right on automation and AI
type: CatalogRecord
description: The automation opportunity is not just a growth play. For many organisations it is increasingly a capacity question. What separates transformation that lasts from programmes that fail to return benefits.
issued: 2026-05-21
keyword: leadership
keyword: ai-adoption
keyword: transformation

Creed Before Capability
type: CatalogRecord
description: In an AI-augmented ecosystem, the things organisations have traditionally hired for move down the priority list. Here is what moves up, and what education needs to produce.
issued: 2026-05-30
keyword: education
keyword: ai-adoption
keyword: hiring
keyword: creed
keyword: future-of-work

When the Scaffolding Becomes the Job: Notes from a Fortnight of Operational AI
type: CatalogRecord
description: A fortnightly synthesis of AI strategy, healthcare technology, and transformation signals for practitioners navigating the human side of change.
issued: 2026-06-09
keyword: digest
keyword: ai-strategy
keyword: transformation
keyword: technology

You Were Made For This
type: CatalogRecord
description: AI is not taking the world. It is clarifying it, revealing what has always mattered most. Five missions for the people willing to step into what only they can do.
issued: 2026-05-22
keyword: human-flourishing
keyword: ai-adoption
keyword: future-of-work

The Ocean Ecosystem: A Post-Transformation Paradigm for AI
type: CatalogRecord
description: After twenty years of transformation programmes, the ocean offers the clearest model for what determines whether AI adoption actually works — and data is only one of four elements.
issued: 2026-05-28
keyword: transformation
keyword: ai-adoption
keyword: leadership
keyword: governance

Four things leaders must get right on automation and AI
type: CatalogRecord
description: The automation opportunity is not just a growth play. For many organisations it is increasingly a capacity question. What separates transformation that lasts from programmes that fail to return benefits.
issued: 2026-05-21
keyword: leadership
keyword: ai-adoption
keyword: transformation

Origin and destination
type: CatalogRecord
description: On knowing where you came from, and why it matters more than ever.
issued: 2026-04-27
keyword: human-flourishing
keyword: identity

On building AI that activates rather than replaces
type: CatalogRecord
description: If the goal is human flourishing, every adoption decision becomes a question about who gets activated and what they get to keep.
issued: 2026-04-12
keyword: ai-adoption
keyword: human-flourishing

Towards more than human
type: CatalogRecord
description: On the different classes of Human + AI engagement emerging, and why agency matters more than adoption.
issued: 2026-04-09
keyword: human-flourishing
keyword: personal-ai

Who's building the next SMEs?
type: CatalogRecord
description: On capability debt, the silent gap GenAI and remote work are widening, and four structural moves to close it.
issued: 2026-03-03
keyword: capability
keyword: mentorship
keyword: future-of-work

Wren and the Shoal
type: Dataset
description: An interactive ocean exploration game. Guide Wren through two levels of the deep — gathering knowledge, finding your shoal, and learning that you are not alone in what you don't yet know. Based on The Practitioner.
issued: 2026-06-08
publisher: The Mantle Institute
language: en
keyword: game
keyword: AI
keyword: learning
keyword: future-of-work
distribution: Distribution
  access URL: Wren and the Shoal
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The Worker
type: Dataset
description: An illustrated fable for young readers about purpose, work, and finding your place. Wren the fish leaves the safety of the Grey Bay and discovers that the work she always did matters — when it is in the service of something real. With narrated audio.
issued: 2026-06-05
publisher: The Mantle Institute
language: en
keyword: children
keyword: purpose
keyword: future-of-work
distribution: Distribution
  access URL: The Worker
  media type: text/html

The Mantle Institute — Playbook Skills
type: Dataset
description: Human/AI skills and workflow patterns across the Ocean Framework.
publisher: The Mantle Institute
issued: 2026-05-01
language: en
keyword: human-AI collaboration
keyword: skills
keyword: playbook
keyword: ocean framework
record: Adversarial Distiller
record: Article Accelerator
record: Daily Augmentations
record: Data Request Fulfillment
record: Reflection Loop
record: Lineage Automation
record: Building Your Shoal
record: Error-Pattern Library

Adversarial Distiller
type: CatalogRecord
description: A four-persona method for extracting the incontrovertible truth from any written argument — what it cannot escape claiming, what it is really fighting against, and the subsidiary truths that survive the debate.
theme: schools
keyword: writing
keyword: content
keyword: adversarial
keyword: knowledge-work

Article Accelerator
type: CatalogRecord
description: A human-led, AI-assisted workflow for producing rigorous, adversarially-reviewed written content — from rough idea to publish-ready article — at a fraction of the usual time investment.
theme: schools
keyword: content
keyword: writing
keyword: knowledge-work

Daily Augmentations
type: CatalogRecord
description: The foundational layer of Human/AI collaboration — everyday tasks where AI assistance is straightforward, immediate, and accessible regardless of technical background.
theme: schools
keyword: productivity
keyword: everyday
keyword: foundations

Data Request Fulfillment
type: CatalogRecord
description: A judgment-led, two-phase workflow for fulfilling customer dataset requests — AI-driven search and generation, with adversarial loops on both data and documentation before secure airlock publish.
theme: shoals
keyword: data
keyword: healthcare
keyword: analyst-workflow

Reflection Loop
type: CatalogRecord
description: A fifteen-minute end-of-session protocol for AI-augmented work — five questions that extract genuine learning from every build session and compound your Learning Rate over time.
theme: schools
keyword: learning
keyword: reflection
keyword: ai-augmented

Lineage Automation
type: CatalogRecord
description: How to progress from manual AI lineage logging to an automated workflow that captures your working process as a byproduct of how you work — voice notes, session hooks, and AI-assisted structuring.
theme: schools
keyword: documentation
keyword: ai-assisted
keyword: workflow

Building Your Shoal
type: CatalogRecord
description: How to find, start, and maintain a small group of practitioners who compound your learning — including cold-start approaches for remote and isolated practitioners.
theme: shoals
keyword: peer-learning
keyword: community
keyword: development

Error-Pattern Library
type: CatalogRecord
description: A personal AI-assisted database of failures and their extracted lessons — with a two-step capture workflow, AI-assisted processing, and pattern-finding that turns individual mistakes into a map of your specific failure modes.
theme: schools
keyword: learning
keyword: patterns
keyword: documentation

The Mantle Institute — Future Roles
type: Dataset
description: AI-augmented role profiles grounded in the SFIA framework.
publisher: The Mantle Institute
issued: 2026-05-01
language: en
keyword: future of work
keyword: AI roles
keyword: SFIA
keyword: human-AI collaboration
record: AI-Augmented Clinical Navigator
record: AI Research Partner
record: Human-AI Strategy Director
record: Intelligent Process Orchestrator
record: AI Systems Architect
record: Ocean Architect
record: Reef Architect
record: Shoal Orchestrator
record: School Practitioner
record: Ecological Intelligence Lead

AI-Augmented Clinical Navigator
type: CatalogRecord
description: A senior clinician who uses AI decision-support tools to coordinate complex care pathways — synthesising multi-modal patient data, flagging risk signals, and ensuring that clinical judgement always holds primacy over algorithmic recommendation.
theme: clinical-care
educational level: Developing

AI Research Partner
type: CatalogRecord
description: A researcher who works alongside AI systems to accelerate hypothesis generation, literature synthesis, and analytical modelling — while maintaining rigorous human oversight of methodology, interpretation, and publication integrity.
theme: data-analytics
educational level: Foundation

Human-AI Strategy Director
type: CatalogRecord
description: An executive leader responsible for shaping an organisation's AI adoption strategy — ensuring that AI investment is maturity-matched, ethically grounded, and aligned to human capability development rather than headcount reduction.
theme: strategy-leadership
educational level: Advanced

Intelligent Process Orchestrator
type: CatalogRecord
description: An operations professional who designs and manages AI-assisted workflows — identifying automation opportunities, managing exception handling, and ensuring that human accountability is never displaced by process automation.
theme: operations-delivery
educational level: Foundation

AI Systems Architect
type: CatalogRecord
description: A senior technical leader who designs the systems, governance layers, and integration patterns that allow AI to operate safely inside complex organisations — ensuring explainability, auditability, and appropriate human oversight at every boundary.
theme: technology-architecture
educational level: Advanced

Ocean Architect
type: CatalogRecord
description: The senior leader responsible for building and sustaining an AI-augmented organisation that earns the right to run itself — establishing the Creed that governs how AI is used across every team, setting the Current that aligns autonomous practitioners without constant supervision, and reading the ecological health of the whole organisation using the diagnostic instruments the ocean requires.
theme: strategy-leadership
educational level: Advanced

Reef Architect
type: CatalogRecord
description: The technical leader who designs and governs the knowledge infrastructure — the Reef — that every AI-augmented practitioner in the organisation depends on. Responsible for ensuring that domain expertise is captured in reusable Skill templates, that knowledge navigability is maintained as the Reef grows, and that the line between what should be automated and what must stay human is enforced at the architecture level.
theme: technology-architecture
educational level: Advanced

Shoal Orchestrator
type: CatalogRecord
description: The operational leader responsible for ensuring groups of AI-augmented practitioners move in formation — compounding collective intelligence rather than keeping learning locked in individual workflows. Responsible for the pastoral layer that reads team health before tissue tears, and for maintaining the Handoff Contracts and governance architecture that keep multi-disciplinary AI workflows coherent under pressure.
theme: operations-delivery
educational level: Developing

School Practitioner
type: CatalogRecord
description: The AI-augmented knowledge worker operating at the front line of an ocean organisation — a practitioner who carries deep domain expertise into close partnership with AI, producing insight that neither could generate alone. The School Practitioner is the unit of productive capability in the ocean: their judgement directs the AI, their expertise validates its output, and their Creed governs what it will and will not produce.
theme: data-analytics
educational level: Foundation

Ecological Intelligence Lead
type: CatalogRecord
description: The people and culture leader responsible for the human architecture of an ocean organisation — designing the Creed, governing the conditions in which practitioners thrive or deplete, and maintaining the Validator Accountability Protocol that distinguishes genuine human-AI collaboration from passive rubber-stamping. Where the Shoal Orchestrator keeps the teams moving, the Ecological Intelligence Lead keeps the water worth swimming in.
theme: strategy-leadership
educational level: Developing

The Mantle Institute — Knowledge References
type: Dataset
description: Curated references to frameworks, standards, legislation, and guides relevant to responsible AI adoption.
publisher: The Mantle Institute
issued: 2026-05-01
language: en
keyword: frameworks
keyword: standards
keyword: AI governance
keyword: healthcare
keyword: regulation
record: The Five Safes Framework
record: DCB0129 — Clinical Risk Management: Manufacture of Health IT
record: DCB0160 — Clinical Risk Management: Deployment of Health IT
record: TOGAF — The Open Group Architecture Framework
record: ASML — How EUV lithography works
record: Anthropic — Project Glasswing
record: SFIA — Skills Framework for the Information Age
record: NHS AI Information Governance Guidance
record: A Guide to Using AI in the Public Sector
record: EU AI Act
record: PESTLE Analysis

The Five Safes Framework
type: CatalogRecord
description: Designed to help organisations make decisions about access to sensitive data: safe projects, safe people, safe data, safe settings, safe outputs. Developed by the ONS and now the backbone of Secure Data Environments and Trusted Research Environments across the NHS.
theme: Framework
keyword: healthcare

DCB0129 — Clinical Risk Management: Manufacture of Health IT
type: CatalogRecord
description: The clinical safety standard that applies to any health IT system whose malfunction or misuse could harm a patient. Covers clinical safety cases, hazard logs, and the requirement for a designated Clinical Safety Officer. Applies to most AI tools entering clinical pathways.
theme: Standard
keyword: healthcare
keyword: regulation

DCB0160 — Clinical Risk Management: Deployment of Health IT
type: CatalogRecord
description: The deploying organisation's counterpart to DCB0129. NHS trusts accepting health IT systems must conduct their own clinical safety assessment in their own context — they cannot simply accept the vendor's safety case. Most organisations do not know they hold this obligation.
theme: Standard
keyword: healthcare
keyword: regulation

TOGAF — The Open Group Architecture Framework
type: CatalogRecord
description: The global standard for enterprise architecture. Its four domains — business, data, application, technology — remain relevant for AI deployments, though most organisations skip straight to application and technology. That is precisely where AI strategies fail.
theme: Framework

ASML — How EUV lithography works
type: CatalogRecord
description: The most extraordinary manufacturing feat in human history: firing lasers at tin beads to generate plasma hotter than the sun, producing chips with features measured in nanometres. Essential context for anyone thinking seriously about AI's physical cost.
theme: Technology

Anthropic — Project Glasswing
type: CatalogRecord
description: Anthropic's initiative exploring AI safety, transparency, and the long-term trajectory of frontier AI development. Relevant to anyone thinking about responsible AI adoption and what 'AI for good' actually requires in practice.
theme: Research

SFIA — Skills Framework for the Information Age
type: CatalogRecord
description: The global standard for defining digital and technology skills. The Future Roles section uses SFIA levels (3–7) and skill codes to ground AI-augmented roles in an established professional framework — connecting emerging human-AI capabilities to a language organisations already use for workforce planning.
theme: Framework
keyword: healthcare
keyword: future-of-work

NHS AI Information Governance Guidance
type: CatalogRecord
description: NHS England's guidance on information governance for AI — covering data protection obligations, transparency requirements, and accountability frameworks specific to health and care settings. The bit most AI projects in the NHS skip until legal asks why they skipped it. Essential reading before any AI system touches patient data.
theme: Guide
keyword: healthcare
keyword: regulation

A Guide to Using AI in the Public Sector
type: CatalogRecord
description: The UK government's practical guidance for public sector organisations adopting AI — covering how to identify opportunities, assess readiness, procure responsibly, and govern deployment. Written for decision-makers rather than technologists. Useful framing for NHS and government bodies navigating AI adoption without a clear internal playbook.
theme: Guide

EU AI Act
type: CatalogRecord
description: The world's first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence — risk-tiered, with outright prohibitions at the top and lighter obligations for minimal-risk systems. Healthcare AI sits firmly in the high-risk category. If you are deploying AI in a clinical or regulated setting, this is not optional reading: it is the compliance baseline that will shape procurement, governance, and accountability across the NHS and beyond.
theme: Legislation
keyword: regulation

PESTLE Analysis
type: CatalogRecord
description: A structured lens for reading the environment an organisation operates in: Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal, Environmental. Simple in concept, deceptively powerful in practice. Most strategy work skips it — which is why most strategies fail to anticipate the conditions they land in. Essential groundwork before any AI adoption plan that expects to survive contact with reality.
theme: Methodology