The Origin
What Dali knew about AI before AI existed
Salvador Dali had a technique. He would sit in a chair holding a heavy key over a metal plate, then let himself drift toward sleep. The moment he lost consciousness, the key would slip from his fingers, strike the plate, and wake him. That liminal space between waking and sleeping was where his most extraordinary ideas lived.
AI works the same way. It gives us extraordinary speed and output, but without a deliberate mechanism to pause, reflect, and recover, we lose the very thing that makes the output valuable: humanity.
The Key is AI: the tool that accelerates everything. The Plate is the recovery practice that catches you before you fall. Without both, you get speed without wisdom.
What you get
Burnout Prevention Protocols
Identify the warning signs before they become crises. Practical interventions your team can implement immediately.
AI-Human Workflow Design
Map which tasks benefit from AI acceleration and which require protected human time.
Recovery Rhythm Planning
Build sustainable work patterns that maintain high output without depleting your people.
Team Resilience Metrics
Measure what matters—not just productivity, but capacity and wellbeing over time.
Who this is for
Leaders who have deployed AI tools and are seeing the productivity gains—but are also noticing their teams running hotter than ever. You want to keep the speed without burning out your people.
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Let's discuss how The Key & The Plate can work for your organisation.
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