Right AI™ Exercise
Find Your Value
Before you can teach a machine what matters, you have to name it yourself. This takes about ten minutes. You'll leave with one value and one thing an AI should do because of it.
Remember
2 minThink of a moment at work when you were proud of how something got done, not just that it got done.
It doesn't have to be big. A hard conversation handled well counts. So does a small fix nobody noticed but you.
Name It
3 minWhat value was showing up in that moment? Pick one or two.
Cut to One
1 minIf you could keep only one, which would it be? This part is supposed to be hard.
Pick your values in step 2 and they'll show up here.
Hand It Off
4 minPicture an AI agent acting on your behalf: answering your customers, drafting your emails, summarizing your meetings.
Your Value Card
- My value
- Not picked yet
- An AI acting for me would
- …
- It would never
- …
What Comes Next
You Just Did the First Step
Naming a value is where most teams stop. But a machine can't act on a word like "respect" or "fairness." It needs that value turned into something it can follow, and something you can check.
That's VPRT™, and it's one of the methods we work through in Designing for AI. You'll take the value you named today all the way to a rule and a test you can use with your own tools.
Adapted by Right AI™ from the Personal Values Card Sort (W.R. Miller, J. C'de Baca, D.B. Matthews and P.L. Wilbourne, University of New Mexico, 2001; public domain), the peak experience method used in coaching and career development, and the narrowing approach Brené Brown describes in Dare to Lead (2018).
© 2026 Right AI™ LLC. VPRT™ is proprietary to Right AI™ LLC.