Most teams finish a project and immediately start the next one. The lessons evaporate. The same mistakes repeat.

Structured reflection is the thing that breaks that cycle. AI just made it faster.

The framework we use

For years, my colleague Lynn Kreun and I have run retros together across government and education — complex, high-stakes environments where the cost of repeating mistakes is high and the appetite for slowing down is low. We call it failing forward.