Proprietary Process

AlEx™ — Aligning Expectations

The process that makes AI-generated job documentation legally defensible — because the people who do the work wrote it first.

Proprietary Process — Updated 2024

AlEx™ — Aligning Expectations
Now powered by AI. Still led by people.

AlEx™ began as a process for surfacing invisible expectations between leaders and teams. It is now the live AI implementation tool at the heart of the Workforce Clarity Initiative at John A. Logan College — and the primary proof-of-concept for Not Without the People.

Current implementation: Claude AI · Google Forms integration · Gold Standard Job Description generation · Mandatory human review at every stage

You cannot align people to expectations they have never seen.

AlEx™ makes the invisible visible. It does so systematically, with documentation, with employee voice at the centre, and now with AI as the translator — not the author.

People first. AI second. People again.

Most AI-generated job documentation starts with AI. AlEx™ inverts the sequence. The people who do the work articulate it first, in their own words. AI translates and structures that articulation. People then review every output before it stands.

People
1

Articulate

Job holders submit task statements via structured Google Forms in their own language

AI
2

Translate

AlEx™ (built in Claude AI) ingests statements and generates structured job description sections

People
3

Review

HR Director and employee representatives review every output before it is accepted

People
4

Validate

Discrepancies are surfaced and resolved through facilitated dialogue, not algorithm

Both
5

Document

Gold Standard Job Description agreed, signed, and stored. Living document, not archive

What makes the current AlEx™ different: the inverted sequence.

Conventional AI Implementation
1
Technology
Platform selected. Specifications set by procurement or IT.
2
Technology
AI generates job documentation from existing records.
3
Technology
Documentation distributed for “review and comment.”
4
People
Employees adapt to what the system has decided they do.
AlEx™ — The Crispian Sequence
1
People
Job holders submit their own task statements via Google Forms — in their own language.
2
AI
AlEx™ (built in Claude AI) ingests statements and generates nine of eleven Gold Standard Job Description sections.
3
People
HR Director and employee representatives review every output. Nothing is accepted without sign-off.
4
People
Agreed documentation is legally defensible, trusted by employees, and built to serve as a living reference.

The Gold Standard Job Description.

AlEx™ generates nine of eleven Gold Standard Job Description sections from employee-submitted task statements. No section is finalised without sign-off from HR and employee representation.

Gold Standard Job Description — Section Output

  • Position Summary — generated from aggregated task statements
  • Primary Duties and Responsibilities — sequenced and weighted
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities — derived from task language
  • Performance Standards — measurable, specific, employee-originated
  • Reporting Relationships — confirmed against org structure
  • Working Conditions — extracted from task context
  • Equipment and Tools — itemised from submitted statements
  • Decision-Making Authority — scoped and bounded
  • Collaboration Requirements — identified from cross-functional tasks
  • Sections 10 & 11 — Mandatory human completion and HR sign-off

Legal Defensibility

Because every section originates in employee-submitted language and is reviewed by HR before acceptance, the resulting documentation is defensible in grievance, arbitration, and compliance contexts.

Living Documentation

A Gold Standard Job Description is not a document filed and forgotten. It is the agreed foundation for coaching conversations, performance reviews, and annual updates.

Live implementation: John A. Logan College, Illinois.

The Workforce Clarity Initiative (WCI) at John A. Logan College is AlEx™’s most complete implementation to date — the fourth attempt at workforce alignment at that institution, and the first that is working.

WCI Results
Phase 3

What the Implementation Produced

Over 1,300 individual task statements collected from 204 LOSA members across all departments.

Nine of eleven Gold Standard Job Description sections generated from those statements and reviewed by HR Director Stephanie Harner and LOSA President Tracie Zoller before acceptance.

The process did not simply produce documentation. It surfaced expectations that had never been made explicit in the institution’s history. That surfacing is the intervention.

1,300+
Task statements collected
204
Employees participating
9/11
JD sections AI-generated
100%
HR-reviewed before acceptance

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