FountainBlue’s web apps are designed to do more than organize information. Each app helps users access relevant knowledge, apply it through a clear process, learn from experience through reflection and feedback, and turn local insights into stronger judgment, better decisions, and broader organizational capability over time.
Each FountainBlue web app is built around four core elements: knowledge, structure, reflection, and adaptation. Together, these elements help users understand what matters, work through decisions in context, learn from outcomes, and carry insights forward in ways that strengthen future action and long-term capability.
FountainBlue’s web apps add structure, visibility, and practical support to the work, but they are only part of the value. Advisory, consulting, and coaching add the human layer that helps leaders interpret what they are seeing, challenge assumptions, adapt the work to real conditions, and turn insight into action that fits the organization, the people involved, and the moment.
How we use these tools
These apps can be explored as demos, used selectively within engagements, or adapted to support deeper advisory, consulting, or coaching work. They help leaders make challenges more visible, compare options more concretely, and move forward with clearer next steps.
In general, our Advisory web apps sharpen vision, priorities, and strategic choices; our Consulting web apps build stronger workflows, operating models, and decisions; and our Coaching web apps build the skills and resilience to lead through change.
Below is an overview of FountainBlue’s Advisory, Consulting, and Coaching web applications. Visit FountainBlue.app and request a no-obligation demo.
FountainBlue’s Advisory Web Apps
FountainBlue’s advisory web apps help leaders clarify direction, compare strategic options, and make sense of change before committing to bigger moves. They support clearer vision, sharper priorities, and more grounded strategic direction in the Age of AI.
FountainBlue’s AI Business Impact Dashboard
Compares AI initiatives across financial, strategic, customer, productivity, operational, and risk impact areas.
This dashboard gives leaders a structured way to compare AI initiatives across multiple business dimensions instead of relying on a single measure such as cost savings or novelty. It supports sharper prioritization, clearer tradeoff discussions, and better alignment between AI investment choices and measurable business outcomes.
Sample tasks:
- Compare multiple AI use cases across impact categories.
- Identify where expected returns are strongest or weakest.
- Prepare a more evidence-based AI investment discussion.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Better visibility into tradeoffs and expected impact.
- Clearer AI investment priorities.
- Stronger alignment between AI efforts and business value.
FountainBlue’s AI Readiness Assessment Tool
Assesses organizational readiness for AI across governance, culture, skills, operations, and investment capacity.
This assessment clarifies current maturity across readiness dimensions such as governance, culture, skills, operating discipline, and investment capacity. It gives executives a more grounded basis for deciding where to move forward, where to strengthen capability, and where more caution is needed.
Sample tasks:
- Assess current AI readiness across core dimensions.
- Identify gaps in capability, governance, and adoption conditions.
- Compare current maturity with desired future state.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Stronger basis for responsible scaling decisions.
- Clearer view of AI readiness gaps.
- Better sequencing of AI-related investments and actions.
FountainBlue’s Edges & Hurdles Web App
Clarifies an organization’s strategic, operational, and people edge—and the hurdles that may weaken it.
This diagnostic connects strategy, operations, and people considerations so leaders can see where momentum can be built and where friction is slowing results. It supports more focused conversations about which strengths to extend, which obstacles to address, and which priorities are most likely to improve competitive position.
Sample tasks:
- Identify strategic edges worth strengthening.
- Surface operational or organizational hurdles slowing performance.
- Prioritize actions that may improve traction and focus.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Stronger alignment around next-step opportunities.
- Better visibility into friction points.
- Clearer prioritization of strategic and operational improvements.
FountainBlue’s The Forest and the Trees Web App
This app helps leaders move beyond isolated issues by looking through three connected lenses: the Forest for system-wide patterns, the Trees for local execution realities, and the Bridges for the relationships, handoffs, and stakeholder dynamics that connect the whole. Using scenario-based guidance across products, processes, and people, it helps users recognize a situation they are living, explore a stronger response, and understand the value of that response.
Sample tasks:
- Diagnose a recurring issue using the Forest, Trees, or Bridges lens.
- Compare local execution gaps against system-wide patterns.
- Identify where handoffs or stakeholder misalignment are slowing results.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Clearer diagnosis of what is really driving a challenge.
- Stronger alignment between strategy and day-to-day execution.
- Faster decisions, fewer surprises, and greater resilience.
FountainBlue’s Seeing Around Corners Web App
Connects external disruption and internal readiness to sharpen strategic decisions about markets, offerings, operations, and people.
This app enables teams to connect external disruption with internal realities so they can make more proactive product, market, operational, and workforce decisions. It sharpens strategic foresight by clarifying what is changing, what it may mean, and what the organization may need to do next.
Sample tasks:
- Explore how external shifts may affect priorities and choices.
- Assess internal readiness for different strategic responses.
- Clarify possible implications of market or technology change.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Clearer links between outside disruption and internal action.
- Better anticipation of change.
- Stronger strategic response planning.
FountainBlue’s Stars, Ruminants, Strays, and Elitists Web App
Evaluates product and service offerings to clarify which should be strengthened, repositioned, integrated, or released.
This portfolio tool gives teams a clearer way to examine offerings through value, fit, longevity, and scalability lenses. It supports more disciplined investment decisions about where to expand, simplify, reposition, combine, or let go.
Sample tasks:
- Review offerings by fit, value, and long-term potential.
- Identify which offerings deserve more, less, or different investment.
- Discuss where simplification or repositioning may be needed.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Clearer decisions about growth, repositioning, or exit.
- Better portfolio clarity.
- Stronger investment discipline.
FountainBlue’s This-And Web App
Reframes competing priorities into a more coherent direction when the path forward is not a simple either/or choice.
This app supports moments when the path forward cannot be reduced to a simple either/or choice. It surfaces tensions, examines assumptions, and reframes competing priorities into a more coherent direction that others can understand, evaluate, and support.
Sample tasks:
- Surface tensions between competing priorities.
- Reframe either/or debates into more integrated options.
- Clarify what balance or synthesis may be possible.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Improved leadership alignment around nuanced choices.
- Better navigation of complexity.
- Stronger strategic coherence.
FountainBlue’s Visioning Stack-Ranking Tool
Compares four strategic direction options across market, financial, operational, and people impact.
This app structures side-by-side evaluation of strategic options across short-term and long-term market, financial, operational, and people impact. It surfaces tradeoffs, tests assumptions, and clarifies what evidence and support may be needed before committing to a preferred direction.
Sample tasks:
- Compare four vision paths against shared criteria.
- Surface tradeoffs between short-term and long-term value.
- Identify what support or validation is needed before commitment.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Stronger alignment around a preferred path.
- Clearer comparison of strategic directions.
- Better shared understanding of tradeoffs.
FountainBlue’s Consulting Web Apps
FountainBlue’s consulting web apps help teams redesign work, evaluate operating choices, and turn priorities into practical systems and workflows. They support stronger leadership approaches, operating models, and decision frameworks for AI‑enabled change.
FountainBlue’s Delegator | Orchestrator | Collaborator Dashboard
Builds judgment about when to delegate to AI, orchestrate AI-supported work, or collaborate with AI directly.
Through realistic scenarios and repeated practice, this app builds stronger judgment about when to delegate work to AI with guardrails, when to orchestrate work across people and tools, and when to collaborate with AI in more iterative ways. It gives teams a more practical language for day-to-day AI adoption.
Sample tasks:
- Evaluate tasks for delegation, orchestration, or collaboration.
- Discuss guardrails for different types of AI-supported work.
- Build a shared language for practical AI use.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Stronger team confidence in applied AI use.
- Better judgment about human/AI role design.
- Clearer workflow decisions.
FountainBlue’s Lead · Manage · Oversee Navigator
Shows when a situation calls for leadership, management, or AI oversight—and how those roles connect.
Using realistic scenarios across strategy, innovation, operations, customer experience, and people topics, this app shows which stance is most needed in a given moment. It strengthens judgment when AI is reshaping expectations around direction, execution, accountability, and human oversight.
Sample tasks:
- Review scenarios and identify the most appropriate stance.
- Discuss where leadership, management, or oversight is lacking.
- Clarify responsibilities in AI-enabled workflows.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Improved accountability across teams.
- Better role clarity.
- Stronger judgment in AI-related decisions.
FountainBlue’s Operate, Rebuild, or Augment with AI Dashboard
Evaluates whether a system should be sustained, modernized, rebuilt, or augmented with AI.
This decision tool enables leaders to determine whether a system or initiative is worth further investment and, if so, whether it should be stabilized, rebuilt, or augmented with AI. It supports more transparent portfolio choices by bringing business value, technical health, cost, and risk into one conversation.
Sample tasks:
- Assess whether an existing system still merits investment.
- Compare, operate, rebuild, and augment paths.
- Discuss cost, value, risk, and technical tradeoffs.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Stronger transparency around risk and cost.
- Clearer IT investment decisions.
- Better alignment between business value and technology choices.
FountainBlue’s Product, Process, People Dashboard
Identifies the most important product, workflow, and people challenges shaping AI-era change.
This tool clarifies how offerings, operating rhythms, and people decisions interact during periods of change. It helps teams decide where to focus first, what to sequence next, and how customer expectations, internal workflows, and team roles are shifting together.
Sample tasks:
- Identify the strongest product, process, and people priorities.
- Explore how operational and workforce changes connect.
- Clarify where sequencing and focus are needed most.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Clearer sequencing of change efforts.
- Better prioritization across key change areas.
- Stronger understanding of cross-functional interdependencies.
FountainBlue’s Programs Stack-Ranking Tool
Compares four project or prototype investments to clarify which option is most worth advancing.
This app structures comparison of project or prototype options across short-term and long-term market, financial, operational, and people considerations. It supports clearer choices about what to prototype, pilot, fund, advance, reshape, or defer next.
Sample tasks:
- Compare project options using shared criteria.
- Rank prototype or investment opportunities.
- Decide what to advance, revise, or defer.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Clearer rationale for what moves forward next.
- Better project prioritization.
- Stronger investment discipline.
FountainBlue’s Seven Toolkits for Growth Framework
Gives leaders a shared, digital way to find and apply fit‑for‑purpose exercises to real strategy, execution, culture, and leadership challenges.
Drawn from FountainBlue’s Hope in an Age of Disillusionment book, this app turns a broad body of frameworks into a more usable decision and reflection resource. It enables clients to search, filter, and apply the right exercise to a live challenge rather than sorting through static concepts on their own.
Sample tasks:
- Search for tools matched to a live business challenge.
- Filter frameworks by growth, leadership, or execution needs.
- Select exercises for reflection, planning, or facilitation.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Faster access to relevant frameworks.
- Better fit between challenge and method.
- More practical use of structured growth tools.
See detailed description of the toolkit here.
FountainBlue’s Coaching Web Apps
FountainBlue’s coaching web apps help individuals and teams reflect, prioritize development, and move through change with more structure and follow‑through. They support the skills, confidence, and resilience needed to lead effectively through AI‑era change.
Building Bridges is a scenario-based web app that helps people build trust and collaboration across organizations, across teams, and across individuals. Using fictional but realistic workplace and community scenarios, Building Bridges helps users understand what’s happening, explore different paths forward, and identify practical actions that strengthen connections across differences.
FountainBlue’s Challenges to Opportunities Web App
Converts current strategic, operational, and people challenges into more actionable opportunity paths.
This app enables users to examine strategic, operational, and people challenges in context and identify where those same conditions may reveal unmet needs, innovation potential, process improvement, or strategic advantage. It supports a more constructive move from reaction toward practical action.
Sample tasks:
- Examine recurring challenges from multiple angles.
- Identify opportunities embedded in a constraint or setback.
- Reframe reactive issues into more constructive next steps.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Better reframing of challenges.
- Stronger problem-solving orientation.
- Clearer action emerging from difficult situations.
FountainBlue’s Humans Over & In the Loop Framework
Guardrails is a values-based leadership and culture web app that helps you explore organizational, team, and personal guardrails and apply them to real-world scenarios. It clarifies which values should lead in specific situations, where guardrails conflict, and how to make decisions that honor mission, collaboration, and integrity at the same time.
Clarify organizational, team, and personal values, then use them as guardrails for better, more aligned decisions.
FountainBlue’s Humans Over & In the Loop Framework
Explores how leadership, management, and AI oversight responsibilities interact across realistic scenarios.
Grounded in FountainBlue’s HOTL and HITL work, this framework clarifies how leadership, management, and oversight responsibilities overlap in practice. It builds better judgment about communication, experimentation, workflow redesign, risk management, and when humans should remain more actively over or in the loop.
Sample tasks:
- Explore human oversight choices in AI-supported scenarios.
- Discuss when humans should remain over or in the loop.
- Clarify leadership and management responsibilities in AI use.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Stronger confidence in responsible AI practice.
- Better human-centered AI judgment.
- Clearer oversight expectations.
More details about our Humans Over the Loop – Leadership Modules and Humans in the Loop – Management Modules are available here.
FountainBlue’s Leadership Development Stack-Ranking Tool
Compares four leadership or management development priorities to identify where to focus first.
This app structures comparison of four possible development priorities across short-term and long-term market, financial, operational, and people impact. It supports more business-grounded decisions about what to prioritize, sequence, broaden, or revisit in order to strengthen leadership readiness for change.
Sample tasks:
- Compare leadership development priorities side by side.
- Identify what capability to strengthen first.
- Discuss sequencing of development investments or efforts.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Clearer leadership development focus.
- Better alignment between development and business need.
- Stronger readiness for change.
FountainBlue’s Scenarios in Context Web App
Examines strategic, operational, and people scenarios through context, urgency, stakeholder impact, and next steps.
This app gives users a more structured way to examine what a scenario may require in terms of communication, priorities, stakeholder awareness, and next steps. It also clarifies urgency and importance so responses are not only thoughtful, but better prioritized.
Sample tasks:
- Review a scenario and surface key contextual factors.
- Clarify who may be affected and what may matter most.
- Prioritize possible next steps based on urgency and impact.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Clearer stakeholder-aware responses.
- Better situational judgment.
- Stronger prioritization under uncertainty.
FountainBlue’s Soft Skills Assessment Tool
Assesses communication, leadership, management, emotional intelligence, and team dynamics over time.
This assessment gives leaders and professionals a structured way to reflect on how they show up with teams, peers, managers, and customers. Used in coaching, it supports more targeted development planning and clearer conversations about what stronger communication, oversight, and leadership behavior should look like in practice.
Sample tasks:
- Assess strengths and gaps across key interpersonal capabilities.
- Reflect on leadership and communication patterns.
- Identify priorities for individual development.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Stronger leadership and communication effectiveness.
- Better self-awareness.
- Clearer development priorities.
FountainBlue’s What’s Next Web App
Guides reflection on transition, change, and reinvention to clarify practical next steps.
This reflection tool gives users a grounded process for moving from uncertainty toward broader perspective, sharper insight, and clearer practical next steps. It is especially useful during role changes, organizational disruption, career inflection points, or moments when someone needs a more deliberate way to decide what comes next.
Sample tasks:
- Reflect on transition points and possible next directions.
- Clarify options during uncertainty or change.
- Identify more grounded next steps.
Sample goals & metrics:
- Stronger sense of direction and momentum.
- Greater clarity during transition.
- Better decision-making about next steps.
FountainBlue’s Workforce Journey Web App
Strengthens how organizations support people across onboarding, transitions, development, and departure.
This scenario-based tool helps users review real-world workforce moments across Launch Well, Move Well, Grow Well, and Leave Well to identify support needs, compare possible responses, and build a more connected approach to people transitions. It is especially useful for organizations navigating growth, restructuring, leadership change, role movement, or other periods when clearer support, stronger continuity, and more intentional people practices are needed.
- Review workforce scenarios across different stages of the employee journey.
- Compare organization, team, and individual responses to common transition challenges.
- Save priority scenarios for reporting, discussion, and follow-up support.
- Earlier identification of support gaps and friction points.
- Greater continuity across employee transitions and change.
- Stronger alignment on practical support actions.
Together, these web apps give FountainBlue a scalable, practical way to deepen our advising, consulting, and coaching work. They help leaders, managers, and boards explore credible AI opportunities, stress-test assumptions, and practice better decisions before making large commitments. Used in combination, the tools create a common language and repeatable process so teams can navigate AI-era complexity with more clarity, alignment, and confidence.
Coaching web apps help individuals and teams reflect, prioritize development, and move through change with more structure and follow-through.
These examples show how FountainBlue’s web apps support broader advisory, consulting, and coaching engagements by helping leaders turn questions into more structured action.
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