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A free tool from OkHenry · The 5×5 Method

Design work steps that don’t break.

Most process docs start with “Step 1: do this thing.” That’s the wrong starting point. The Step Execution Canvas is a one-page tool for designing a work step completely — before anyone runs it.

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The Canvas The Step Execution Canvas: a one-page layout with Intent at the top, Inputs, Execution and Outputs as three columns, and Impact at the bottom.

Five elements. One complete step.

Every step on the canvas answers five questions — in order. It’s the 5×5 Method from Deliberate Work.

Why
Intent
Why this step exists — and what breaks without it.
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Ready
Inputs
Everything needed before work begins.
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What · How · Where
Execution
The bounded work, its mode, its place.
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Done
Outputs
What exists, and what the next step gets.
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So That
Impact
What this step enables downstream.
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Start here · Field 01

It begins with one question.

Before you define what happens, answer why the step exists at all. Intent is the top bookend of the canvas — it prevents activity for activity’s sake.

The question to ask
“Why does this step exist? What breaks if we remove it?”

If you can’t answer that, the step might be:

ACCIDENTAL
Exists out of habit, not necessity.
REDUNDANT
Duplicates work done elsewhere.
HIDDEN
Doing important work no one has named.
Page two of the canvas: a field guide explaining how to write Intent, plus quick references for the five elements and six execution modes. Page 2 · Field guide

Do it on paper. Or in minutes.

Print the canvas and run it by hand — or let Henry turn your steps into Operation Maps. Start wherever you’re ready.

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