AI Blocks › Plan your strategy
Cut the waste out of a process, and fix the cause that keeps it coming back
Paste your process step by step. Get the waste named, one change to try and the root cause behind it.
Find process waste and the cause behind it is a free AI workflow for the job "Plan your strategy". It guides your AI through several skills in order, passing each step's output to the next.
Free · No account · Made by AI Blocks · Thinking: high
What it does
Most slow or error-prone processes are full of steps nobody questioned. People work harder inside the process instead of asking whether a step should exist, and when a problem repeats, the fix is a patch on the symptom. The cause stays, and the problem comes back. This workflow follows the order from Taiichi Ohno's interview on the Toyota production system. First, it lists each step with its work time and wait time and marks it as something the customer would pay for or not. It names the kind of waste, finds the worst and asks who required each step. Then it uses the five whys on that waste: it asks why until it reaches a cause in your process or training, and checks each answer against the real place or record.
You give it
- Your process, step by step, with who does each step
- Times for work and waiting (optional)
- Where it hurts, or the problem that keeps coming back, with the place and date
- Logs, tickets, photos or notes (optional)
- What was tried before (optional)
- Your notes (optional)
You get
- A table of steps with work time and wait time
- Each step marked value or waste, with the kind of waste named
- The worst waste, backed by the time line, and the step to delete or change first
- A chain of whys with evidence at each level, and a second branch in case there is more than one cause
- The root cause your team can change, a fix and a check that it stays fixed
Use it when
- A process feels slow and you can't say which steps are the problem.
- The same mistake keeps happening, and each fix lasts only a few weeks.
- You inherited a process and want to know which steps can be deleted.
Steps
- Process waste finder: Paste your process step by step. Get each step marked value or waste, the worst waste named and one change to try.
- Root cause finder: Paste a problem that keeps coming back. Get a chain of whys checked against facts, the fixable cause and a prevention check.
How to use it
- Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
- Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
- Paste your process and the problem. It works step by step and saves each result.
- Go and look at the real place or record for any why it can't check, then bring back what you find.