Your Making Pattern

Six activities.One ranked order.

A pattern of where your attention goes when you make things. And what you tend to miss.

The Making Pattern framework: three systems, six activities

What is the Making Pattern?

Everything you make lives in three systems. A need. The resources you have to work with. The solution you're making. Six activities move between them. Scoping. Specification. Provisioning. Delivery. Verification. Validation.

You don't watch them equally. You can't. Some pull on your focus. Others stay in the background until something breaks.

That's your making pattern. It's not personality. It's not skill. It's where your attention goes when you're making something that matters.

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The six making activities

Every act of making involves all six. Your pattern is how much attention each one captures.

Scoping

"What can you actually pull off?"

You look at your skills, your time, and your energy, and figure out what a realistic version of this goal actually is.

Specification

"What would actually satisfy this need?"

You turn what you want into a clear picture of what to build.

Provisioning

"What do you need to develop or acquire?"

You build up what you need before the work begins. Skills, tools, relationships.

Delivery

"What can you make with what you have?"

You build. You turn what you have and what you know into the thing itself.

Verification

"What does your output reveal about how you work?"

You look at what you made and ask what it tells you about your process. Then you adjust.

Validation

"Does this actually solve the problem?"

You bring what you made back to why you started. Sometimes you finish and realize you solved the wrong thing.

You're in the final stretch of a kitchen renovation you've been doing yourself. Most of the heavy work is done. You have leftover materials, a budget that's mostly spent, and a realistic sense of what you've got left to give.

Which sounds more like you?

Option AYou're taking stock of where things stand. Time and energy are running lower than two weeks ago and you know it. You start thinking about which parts of the plan you can still finish.

Option BYou're thinking about what the finished kitchen should look like. The backsplash still isn't figured out. You want to get that settled before you think about anything else.

How it works

No right answers. No trick questions. Just: which person's instinct is closer to yours?

You'll see 20–40 paired scenarios like this one. Each puts two people in the same making situation. They respond differently. You pick the one that sounds more like you.

The assessment adapts as you go, finding where your attention naturally settles and probing until the rank order is clear.

~30 minutes · Your full report immediately after

What's in your report

Your Maker Symbol

A custom symbol built from your results. High-attention activities are largest and brightest. Low-attention ones recede.

At a Glance

A narrative profile of your lead activity, how your top two interact, what you naturally focus on, and where the blind spots sit.

Activity Breakdown

Six pages, one per activity, written to your rank. High: your first impulse and the trap it sets. Medium: when you engage and where you stall. Low: the gap and what it misses.

Growth Map

Your growth edge, the activities sitting in the middle of your ranking, and what happens when your top two crowd out the rest.

All reports include a downloadable PDF. See a sample report →

Making Pattern Report

1. Delivery2. Specification3. Scoping4. Verification5. Validation6. Provisioning

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For teams

See your team's pattern.

When a team stalls, it usually isn't a skill gap. It's people focusing on the wrong things and not noticing.

A Delivery-heavy team moves fast and misses validation. A Specification-heavy team over-defines and under-delivers. These aren't personality clashes. They're predictable blind spots you can see in advance.

Run the assessment across your team. See who attends to what. Build with it.