Cognitive Performance Programme · Acuity AI
Find out exactly why AI hasn't made you more productive.
A free 15-minute diagnostic that maps your working patterns across five dimensions and shows you precisely where your focus, your meetings, and your priorities are costing you time you are not getting back.
Take the free diagnostic — it's freeNo account needed. Results delivered immediately. Used by leadership teams across Irish and European organisations.
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83%
of knowledge workers say AI increased their workload.
Harvard Business Review, February 2026
The tools are not the problem. The sequence is. AI layered on top of fragmented attention, overloaded meetings, and displaced priorities produces more noise, not less. The gains do not materialise because the foundations were never addressed.
The Cognitive Advantage fixes the sequence. Three layers, in the right order — cognitive capacity first, structural drag second, AI tools third. Only then do the tools deliver what was promised.
Delivered live to leadership teams across Irish and European organisations in financial services, infrastructure, and professional services. This is the self-serve version — same methodology, same outputs, your own pace.
The free diagnostic
In 15 minutes, you get a personalised portrait of how you actually work.
Meeting load
What proportion of your working week is consumed by meetings, and how much of that is recoverable.
Deep work ratio
How much uninterrupted thinking time you are actually protecting, versus what you believe you are protecting.
Peak hour alignment
Whether your highest-value work is scheduled when your cognition is sharpest — or when it is depleted.
Mode-switching cost
How many distinct cognitive contexts you move between in a single day, and what that fragmentation is costing.
Priority drift
The gap between where you say your priorities are and where your time is actually going.
Acuity AI Advisory · Cognitive Performance Programme
Cognitive Operating Plan
Executive Portrait · Diagnostic Report
Five-dimension diagnostic
Meeting load
74
Deep work ratio
22
Peak hour alignment
58
Mode-switching cost
81
Priority drift
67
Priority interventions
Protect 90-minute deep work blocks before 10 am — non-negotiable
Reduce standing meetings by 40% using the meeting audit protocol
Reassign 3 recurring tasks currently below strategic threshold
Your Cognitive Operating Plan — personalised, downloadable, print-ready.
The full programme · €197
Three layers. In the right order. That is the entire argument.
1
People: Cognitive Capacity
Most people are losing hours every day to how their brain is being used, not how hard they are working. This layer explains why — and what to do about it.
2
Process: Meetings and Communication
The drag on most working days is structural, not personal. This layer challenges how meetings and communication actually function — and rebuilds them deliberately.
3
Tools: AI Applied
AI tools deliver real gains only when the first two layers are addressed. This layer puts them to work on your actual tasks — prompts built, outputs tested, yours to keep.
Why this sequence is non-negotiable
AI layered on top of unaddressed cognitive and process drag produces marginal gains. The same tools, applied after the foundations are right, produce transformational ones.
What you produce
You do not watch this programme. You produce things in it.
Your Cognitive Operating Plan
A personalised document containing every action you commit to, your AI prompt library, your communication rules, and your key calculations. Branded, downloadable, print-ready.
Your calendar blocks
A .ics file that pre-populates your calendar with focus blocks for every action you select. One click to install in Outlook, Google Calendar, or Apple Calendar.
Your learning library
26 curated resources tagged to your specific gaps, bookmarkable, included in your plan. Research papers, practitioner guides, and books — filtered to what your diagnostic says you actually need.
The Cognitive Advantage was built by Ger Perdisatt, former COO of Microsoft Western Europe — 14 countries, approximately €10 billion in revenue, 8,000 people. Currently Non-Executive Director at daa plc and Tailte Éireann.
This programme is vendor-neutral by design. No reseller relationship with any AI provider. It works because the methodology is right, not because a tool is being sold.
€197
One payment. Permanent access. Work through it at your own pace.
If you manage a team and want to address the structural drag above the individual, email hello@acuityai.co about the Leadership Track.
Common questions
How long does it take?+
The free diagnostic takes 15 minutes. The full programme — six chapters, all interactive — takes most people four to six hours spread across a week or two. There is no time pressure. You move at your own pace.
Do I need to have AI tools already?+
No. Layer 3 works whether you use Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or nothing yet. The prompt library is built from your actual role and tasks during the programme.
Is this a video course?+
No. There are no videos to watch. Every stage requires you to produce something — a restructured schedule, a meeting audit, a prompt library. You cannot advance without doing the work.
What if I've already done productivity training?+
If it changed how your week actually runs, you don't need this. If it didn't, the reason is almost certainly the sequence — and that is exactly what this addresses.
What is the refund policy?+
If you complete the programme and feel it didn't deliver, email hello@acuityai.co within 30 days. We will refund you in full. No forms, no conditions.
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