Practice

Practice & pilots

FDP becomes real when it is used—across contexts, without gatekeeping.

We don’t track usage. Learning comes from patterns people voluntarily share—especially where FDP helps, fails, or is missing.

Current pilot (v0)

Pilot A: Making fairness explicit before collaboration begins. Participants use a short Fair Deal Memo to clarify purpose, roles, value exchange, power, risks, and fair exit—before commitments harden.

Pilot pack

These artifacts are intentionally lightweight. Use them as-is, then improve them through practice.

  • Fair Deal Memo v1 (template)
  • Kickoff agenda (60 minutes)
  • Reflection template (private by default)
  • Public synthesis format (patterns, not attribution)

If you want the full pack as text, copy the sections below.

Kickoff agenda (copy)

Pilot A kickoff agenda (copy all)
PILOT A — KICKOFF AGENDA (60 MIN)

Purpose
- Establish psychological safety
- Align on why the pilot exists
- Normalize disagreement and fair exit

0–10 min — Opening & framing
- Voluntary participation; no attribution without consent
- Not a contract; not compliance; not judgment

10–20 min — Round: what usually goes wrong too late?
- 1–2 minutes per person

20–35 min — Walkthrough: Fair Deal Memo v1
- Purpose, contributions, value exchange, power, risks, exit

35–45 min — Guardrails
- Early exit is a valid outcome
- “We don’t know yet” is acceptable

45–55 min — Next steps
- Which collaboration will use a memo; who drafts first; review trigger

55–60 min — Close
- One word: how you feel entering this pilot

Reflection template (copy)

Pilot A reflection template (copy all)
PILOT A — REFLECTION (PRIVATE BY DEFAULT)

1) Context
- What collaboration did you use the memo for?
- At what stage was the memo introduced?

2) What the memo clarified early
- Which assumptions became visible?
- What conversations happened sooner than usual?

3) Where the memo was insufficient
- What remained ambiguous?
- What still surprised you later?

4) Impact on decisions
- Did the memo change whether/how the collaboration proceeded?
- Did anyone opt out earlier than they otherwise would have?

5) Power & fairness
- Did making power explicit change behavior?
- Were asymmetries reduced or simply surfaced?

6) Emotional & cognitive effects
- Did clarity reduce stress or increase it?
- Did it make saying “no” easier?

7) What you would change
- What would you add/remove/rephrase?

8) One sentence takeaway
- “Using a Fair Deal Memo changed this collaboration by…”

Public synthesis format (copy)

Pilot A public synthesis template (copy all)
PILOT A — PUBLIC SYNTHESIS (PATTERNS, NOT ATTRIBUTION)

Title
- Making Fairness Explicit Before Collaboration Begins: What We Learned

Include (briefly)
- Why we ran the pilot
- What we did (high level)
- What became clear earlier than usual
- What the memo helped with most
- Where it was insufficient
- Effects on power & fairness (mixed is OK)
- What we would change next time
- What this does not prove
- Next steps

Share experience (voluntary)

If you used FDP in any context—Open Collective, LinkedIn, proposals, teams—share what happened: what it clarified, where it failed, and what was missing. This is how FDP stays portable and improves.

Where to share

  • Post a short reflection on the Fair Deal Policy LinkedIn Company Page (recommended)
  • Use the for discussion threads and pilot updates
  • Or link your write-up from your own channels and tag FDP