The Fresco Method
From a problem people should fix to an environment we can test.
The method is more important than any Fresco feature. Anyone should be able to use it without the software.
- 01Observe
- 02Goal
- 03Hypothesis
- 04Experiment
- 05Result
- 06Improve
Experiment specification
A shared grammar for learning.
Structure does not make a weak experiment rigorous, but it makes gaps, tradeoffs, and uncertainty visible enough to challenge.
- Observation
- What is happening now?
- Goal
- Which human outcome should improve?
- Hypothesis
- Which environmental change might cause improvement?
- Intervention
- What changes, exactly?
- Participants
- Who knowingly opts in, and who is excluded?
- Baseline
- What happens before the change?
- Primary metric
- Which single measure most directly tests the hypothesis?
- Secondary metrics
- What adds context without moving the goalposts?
- Guardrails
- What must not get worse?
- Duration
- How long is enough to learn without overexposure?
- Data collection
- What is collected, and why is each field necessary?
- Privacy
- What becomes public, and what stays private?
- Result
- What happened—including negative effects?
- Limitations
- Why might this result mislead us?
- Decision
- Scale, Modify, Repeat, Stop, or Inconclusive?
“A precise failure teaches more than a vague success.”