The Messy Company: Facilitator Edition
The same pack, licensed for the sessions you sell. Unlimited clients and cohorts, co-branded, with the Kesslernity source credit kept visible.
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The free, open-source Copilot prompt library that sits under this work was cited by Jared Spataro (Microsoft, AI at Work) in his 25 February 2026 note. He was citing that free repo when it held 300+ prompts. This is a separate, paid product and he did not review or endorse it.
The situation
Clients ask you to run an AI session and expect something better than a vendor demo. Building a case with enough documents in it to argue about is a week of unpaid work before the first invoice.
And the material has to hold up in front of people who do this for a living. A thin exercise costs you the next engagement, not just this one.
What this is
The Messy Company is a fictional procurement case, run in three timed rounds. The room prepares a brief for a project office. Then new documents arrive, and they have to show what changed, withdraw the claims the evidence no longer supports, and keep what is still true.
You get the complete facilitator side: planned agendas, private reference answers, a completed brief and three contrasting reviewer examples, so you can defend a mark in the room.
The files are identical to the Internal edition. What the Facilitator edition buys is the right to deliver them for money.
What is inside
- A six-document procurement case, run in three timed rounds
- Prepared attendee packets and eight editable session slides
- A facilitator guide with planned 45 and 60 minute agendas for a team of two to six
- Private reference answers, a completed brief, and three contrasting reviewer examples
- A second five-source document-handover case, with two releases and a private reveal
- Two Excel workbooks, a two-page session result, and instructions for adapting the method to a real job
- A supplier-demonstration variant, three optional prompts, an offline start guide and a captioned walkthrough
- Every case document and guide as both PDF and editable Word. Slides as PowerPoint and PDF, workbooks as Excel.
- The Facilitator licence: paid delivery across unlimited clients and cohorts, co-branding, and session recording
Work down the six stages below in order. Each one tells you what to say, what to hand out, how long to allow, what to save and where to go next. Everything else in the pack is a reference you can reach from here.
Stage 1. Prepare · 00:00 to 08:00 Say this: “We are writing a short procurement brief for Finance. New documents will arrive three times. Your job is to keep the brief true to whatever you can actually cite.” Distribute this: nothing yet. Hand out 03-Role start cards only. Allow this time: 8 minutes. Opening 4, roles and route 4. Save this output: the Session sheet of Participant record.xlsx, with run ID, date, route and names. Continue here: Stage 2 below, at minute 8.
Stage 2. Round 1 · 08:00 to 20:00 Say this: “Here are your first two documents. Write the brief from these, and cite what you used.” Distribute this: the Round 1 packet from 2 Participant packets. Nothing else. Allow this time: 9 minutes of work, then 3 to freeze. Read 2, draft 3, review 3, save 1. Save this output: the first brief and the reviewed brief, kept as separate versions. Do not overwrite the first one. Continue here: Stage 3 below, at minute 20. Keep 3 Facilitator answers closed.
Four more stages run to minute 60, ending in the debrief where the answer map opens.
Who it is for
- Consultants and independent trainers who sell AI sessions
- Training companies that need a ready case rather than a build
- Partners who want practitioner material alongside the vendor decks
Who it is not for
- Anyone who wants to resell the pack itself. The licence does not permit listing or selling it on your own store or on any other marketplace, as it is or edited, and it does not permit sublicensing.
- Organisations running sessions only for their own staff. The Internal edition covers that for less.
- Anyone who needs to remove the Kesslernity source credit. It stays visible; that is the condition the rest of the licence hangs on.
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What does this licence not allow?
You may not resell The Messy Company itself. That means not listing or selling it on your own store or on any other marketplace, as it is or edited, and not sublicensing it. What you sell is the training you deliver, never the pack.
What does it allow?
One legal entity may deliver and sell paid training with it, adapt and co-brand the documents with its own logo, hand the materials to participants, record those sessions and keep, reuse or sell the recordings, across unlimited clients and cohorts. A visible notice that the source is Kesslernity stays on the materials.
Is this the same as a Trainer and Reseller licence?
No, and the difference is the size of the thing. The $997 Trainer and Reseller licences cover multi-week curricula: the six-session GenAI programme and the M365 Copilot Deployment Kit. This is one workshop, licensed for the sessions you sell with it.
Why is it the same price as nothing else on the shelf?
Because the files are the same as the $99 Internal edition and the delta is the commercial right. One paid session usually covers it.
Can I pay by invoice rather than card?
Yes. Email mathieu@kesslernity.com and I will raise an invoice with a bank transfer option.
Buying this with a company card?
Your receipt email carries a Generate link that opens an invoice generator: add your billing address, put your legal company name and any reference your finance team needs in the Additional notes box, and download the PDF. If you have an EU VAT number, enter it at checkout and no VAT is charged. Here is the approval email, so you do not have to write one.
Subject: Approval request: The Messy Company: Facilitator Edition ($299, one-time) Hi [Manager], I would like to expense a one-time $299 purchase: The Messy Company: Facilitator Edition by Kesslernity. What it is: The same pack, licensed for the sessions you sell. Unlimited clients and cohorts, co-branded, with the Kesslernity source credit kept visible. What we get: - A six-document procurement case, run in three timed rounds - Prepared attendee packets and eight editable session slides - A facilitator guide with planned 45 and 60 minute agendas for a team of two to six - Private reference answers, a completed brief, and three contrasting reviewer examples Why it is worth it: it is a one-time purchase with no subscription, and it replaces work we would otherwise scope, build and maintain ourselves. The author publishes the open-source Copilot prompt library that Microsoft's CMO for AI at Work cited as "battle-tested in production environments". A downloadable invoice is available from the purchase receipt for expenses. [Your name]
Need a PO, or cannot put $299 on a card?
That is normal at this price and it is not a problem. Email mathieu@kesslernity.com with your company details and I will raise an invoice you can pay by bank transfer, against a PO if your process needs one.
The Messy Company: Facilitator Edition
The same pack, licensed for the sessions you sell. Unlimited clients and cohorts, co-branded, with the Kesslernity source credit kept visible.
Get it for $299Licensed, not sold. The full License & Terms apply. Kesslernity is an independent publisher: this is independent analysis, not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Microsoft. It is practitioner guidance, not professional, legal, or financial advice.
The other edition
Same material, different licence or a smaller slice of it. You want one of these, not both.
What this pairs with
Picked by hand, not by sales data.
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