Take Action with practical exercises
Become an instant workshop, brainstorm, and presentation ninja with a comprehensive range of tools, templates, and frameworks from the world’s best practitioners.
Get all 58 Action cards in the Practical Thinking Deck
Get strategic with Insights
Level up your professional wisdom with useful distilled insights from the fields of psychology, economics, philosophy, physics and more.
Get all 58 Insight cards in the Strategic Thinking Deck
Shift perspective with Frames
Provoke consideration of relevant frames with these prompt cards for media channels, stakeholders, audiences, archetypes and more.
Get all 58 Frame cards in the Perspectives Thinking Deck
Avoid Critical issues with Snares
Reduce risks, limit liabilities, and save a lot of time and money with critical thinking tools that help you evaluate and move forward with assurance.
Get all 58 Snare cards in the Critical Thinking Deck
Learning mental models will vastly improve your decision-making skills, and Kitted provides a tangible way to master them by integrating them into your everyday workflows.
Gabriel Weinberg
Founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo and co-author of the internationally best-selling book Superthinking - The Big Book of Mental Models
Kitted's thoughtfully designed decks encourage fresh perspectives and support creative thinking. The concepts they teach can inspire better thinking and nudge us in novel directions.
Spencer Greenberg
Founder and CEO of non-profit Clearer Thinking & psychological research organization Spark Wave
As AI automates more menial tasks, higher-order strategic, creative, and critical thinking skills will become increasingly important for all professionals. Kitted is an amazing tool to build these competencies with those you lead.
Jonathan Brill
Global Futurist at HP and Internationally best-selling author of Rogue Waves
Kitted offers a toolkit of thinking superpowers in a box. These expert-vetted methods help to suss out biases, optimize decision-making, and spur creative innovation.
David McRaney
Internationally best-selling author of How Minds Change and You Are Not So Smart
Made by global leaders in higher order thinking
Kitted was made by the founders of The School of Thought International, a non profit dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and understanding. Their resources have reached over 30 million people worldwide and are being used in thousands of universities and Fortune 500 companies including Harvard and Apple.
5% of proceeds from Kitted are donated to The School of Thought to further this cause.
How it works
Kitted provides a modular system of thinking tools you can mix, match, and remix.
You can use any of the thinking tools by themselves to positive effect, but the next-level transformative thinking superpowers happen when you and your team use the cards together. You can choose your own professional adventure to suit your purposes, or use and adapt any of our templated combinations.
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Applications
Assumptions Map
The Assumptions Map is just one of 58 thinking tools in the Actions deck.
It serves as a powerful way to combine creative and critical thinking, helping us to explore our assumptions with a first-principles approach, prioritize the 'unknown and important' assumptions, and run experiments to validate or disconfirm them.
Use the arrows left and right to explore more applications.
Applications
Marketing Brainstorm
This Play provides step-by-step instructions for how to run a marketing or advertising brainstorming session.
Identify your target markets, potential media channels, and value proposition before moving on to ideation exercises, and finally validating your ideas through an evaluation process.
This Play can be cloned and adapted to include other thinking tools when you have a Pro membership (12 months included with every deck purchased – Bundle = 4 years).
Applications
Lunch & Learns
Level up your team's thinking with Kitted's cards in a Lunch & Learn session or other professional development context such as training days or during weekly retro meetings.
The Strategic Insights and Critical Thinking cards are particularly useful to this end.
Applications
Workshop it
Kitted provides a complete workshop design system, with modular tools you can swap and choose to suit any strategic objective; as well as interactive templates, helpful examples, and step-by-step instructions.
Use your cards to plan your workshops with a smorgasbord of options, as well as to facilitate by giving participants tactile prompts and actions.
Applications
Perspectives Brainstorm
This Play provides a range of perspectives to provoke consideration of different points of view in a brainstorming or strategy session.
Combine an orange brainstorming Action such as 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes with a perspective stimulus card such as The Customer or No Limits.
Applications
It's your jam
Many of Kitted’s Actions Thinking Tools are available as interactive FigJam templates.
Collaborate in real-time with your team while you’re together in the same room, working from home, or a mix of both.
Applications
Serendipity on the cards
Planning for creativity in workshops and other structured scenarios is certainly worthwhile, however the value of courting innovation through serendipity is substantial.
Simply having Kitted's cards on-hand as prompts for strategic, creative, and critical thinking in your meeting room or office could prove transformative.
Features
Future-proof
The artificial intelligence revolution means any task that can be automated, soon will be.
Consequently, most professional knowledge economy work will be redundant. What will remain for us humans is to use higher-order creative, strategic, and critical thinking to both pilot these AI systems, and make discerning decisions for all the work which remains.
Learning and using the mental models in Kitted's card decks is one of the best ways to future-proof yourself and prepare for the burgeoning Wisdom Economy.
Features
Team Up
Fostering a culture of higher-order thinking can yield manifold benefits in terms of innovation, collaboration, and proactive value creation.
Professional development needn’t be limited to expensive off-site training days, it should be part of the culture itself. Kitted has a range of professional development options including Mental Model Mondays and Lunch & Learn sessions, however, the best way to learn is by actively applying these tools to our work.
Features
Strategize
Strategic decision-making is seldom optimal.
We tend to rely upon the methods and assumptions that have served us well in the past, and while this approach is often sufficient, we miss the opportunity to go from good to great.
Kitted’s toolkit proves the means to optimize your strategic potential with professional wisdom.
Features
Represent
A great presentation can have nice graphics or fancy charts, but what really makes it impressive is not how it’s presented, but rather how compelling the argument is.
Kitted Thinking Tools are rich with insights and examples that can elevate your presentations with strategic nous and acumen; formatted for any presentation format as PNG files or standalone slides.
Features
Share your thoughts
Whether you’re a thought leader in your industry or simply know a smarter way to do a specific task, Kitted’s platform provides you with professional tools to create shareable Kits (collections of resources), Flows (responsive rich media presentations), Plays (step-by-step instructions) and Articles to share with your team, clients, or the wider community.
Features
Reduce critical risks
Mitigating risks, especially for big projects, is one of the cheapest ways to save a lot of money.
Kitted’s thinking tools provide practical ways to run critical evaluation exercises.
Your new deck of Thinking Tool cards could pay for itself 100 times over if a single serious liability is averted.
INCLUSIONS
12 months Pro Membership
Receive 12 months complementary Pro membership to the Kitted platform with every deck. Save your most useful thinking tools and publish shareable Kits, Flows, Plays, and Articles.
INCLUSIONS
Powerpoint & Keynote Templates
Each deck of Kitted Thinking Tools includes the complete downloadable collection of over 200 Thinking Tools in native, editable, white-labeled formats for PowerPoint and Keynote.
INCLUSIONS
3 Pro Membership invitations to share
Invite 3 colleagues or friends to enjoy full access to the Kitted platform for 12 months. This offer is only available for a limited time, and applies to each deck purchased.
Frequently Asked Questions
About us
Kitted’s mission is to promote professional wisdom by synthesizing design with empirically supported academic understanding.
Drawing upon luminaries and insights from fields including behavioral science, physics, psychology, and philosophy, Kitted applies design thinking principles to produce products that make insights actionable.
Find out more about our origins and aspirations here:
The Full Bundle Set
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This comprehensive collection is the ultimate professional toolkit and contains every Kitted Thinking Tool from the four different category decks.
It also includes 4 years of Pro Membership access to the kitted.app platform, 12 one-year Pro Memberships to share iwth colleagues, and editable PowerPoint and Keynote templates for over 200 thinking tools.