Field report // Edition 01
Training standard: closed-room retrieval under load
The second your eyes leave the room to look up a number, you have conceded the table.
A 30-day physical training protocol for trial attorneys, managing directors and enterprise dealmakers to hold operating figures, valuation multiples and structural arguments, then retrieve them with zero screens and zero notes.
Stop looking down.
The second you glance at a screen or scan a cheat sheet, you surrender command of the room.
UNSCRIPTED is the zero-screen retrieval protocol for high-stakes audits, negotiations and closed-door pitches. Lock in sequences, figures and technical specs using the room around you, then retrieve them in three seconds flat.
A single foundation briefing, then 15 focused minutes a day. Baseline-tested on Day 0. Battle-ready by Day 30.
- 🧠 Day 1: build 10 anchors within about 2 meters of your chair, and meet your first 5 pegs.
- 🔢 All 100 number pegs (00–99) are done for you. Learn 5 a day in about 3 minutes. No cramming.
- 👁️ Retrieve in a 3-second glance. Eyes up, no screen, no notes.
- ⚡ Start the moment you order. Your Day 0 baseline sheet is emailed instantly, while the manual ships free.
Protocol Commitment: One 3-hour Architecture Briefing (Day 0) · 15 minutes daily (Days 1–30) · 40-minute final assessment (Day 30).
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How it works
- Day 0 (instant): Baseline. Your Day 0 sheet arrives by email the moment you order. Run Baseline A (12-word sequence recall) and Baseline B (digit span and a 10-digit number) with a pencil and any timer. Record your scores.
- Phase 0: The Architecture Briefing (one-time set-up). Review the retrieval diagnostic, the three core protocols and the peg lexicon method. Plan on about 3 hours, easily split across a weekend, before Day 1.
- Days 1 to 30: 15 minutes a day. Every day has four blocks: Build (5 min), Sweep the pegs (3 min), Review (3 min) and Retrieve (4 min, book shut).
- Six palaces, six topics. You build six micro-palaces across six five-day cycles: software and APIs, a clinical study aid, finance, an executive roster, Spanish for business and Japanese for business.
- Glance. In live use you rest your eyes on the anchor for about three seconds and the item comes back.
- Day 30: Operator assessment (about 40 minutes). Same baseline tests with fresh material. Compare with Day 0.
- Missed a day? Don't double up. Do the missed day next and shift the rest.
What's included
Scope & Application
UNSCRIPTED is an applied professional training protocol. It is not a medical, psychological or clinical assessment or intervention. Its benchmarks, speed targets and pass thresholds are the manual's own working values, not clinical norms.
What you get
- Format: A5 paperback (148 x 210 mm / 5.8 x 8.3 in), 140 numbered pages, 100 gsm cream paper, black cover
- Module 01, The Retrieval Diagnostic (pp. 1-24): how recall fails, baselines and scoring
- Module 02, The 3 Applied Protocols (pp. 25-64): Linear Link Chain, Substitute Word Protocol, Spatial Loci and the Micro-Palace
- Module 03, The 00-99 Visual Peg Lexicon (pp. 65-104): 100 pegs, peg cards, reverse index, drills and mastery criteria
- Module 04, The 30-Day Guided Palace Workbook (pp. 105-140): 30 daily pages, review log, operator assessment
- Day 0 baseline sheet, emailed the moment you order
- Free worldwide shipping
- Language: English
Shipping & guarantee
Free worldwide shipping, tracked on every order. Estimated delivery is 7 to 14 business days worldwide. Any import duties or taxes your country charges on arrival are the buyer's responsibility. Your Day 0 sheet is emailed instantly, so you don't wait for the post to start.
The 60-Day Field-Performance Guarantee
Your 60 days start the day your manual is delivered. Open it and run the 30-day protocol at your own pace.
If you can't walk into a live meeting, pitch or exam and retrieve 10 sequential data points without touching a screen or glancing at paper, send one email.
We'll refund your order straight away. Keep the manual. On a single manual there is nothing to return, no worksheet to submit and no questions asked.
Fair-use terms: one guarantee claim per customer and household. On 2-packs and 3-packs, keep one manual; the unopened extras must be returned for a full refund. Full details in our Refund Policy.
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UNSCRIPTED
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- 01 Left table corner
- 02 Water carafe
- 03 Center bezel
- 04 Notepad edge
- 05 Chair frame
- 06-10 Yours
1. The cost of dead air
You prepared for weeks. Then a question lands that is not on the page.
You built the valuation model, drafted the brief or reviewed the deck. Then an executive, partner or judge asks an unscripted question across the table:
"What multiple did that competitor trade at in Q2?"
"What page in Exhibit C refutes this testimony?"
"Which branch is driving that cost overrun?"
Your eyes drop. You scroll through tabs, a long deck or a trial binder, and the room waits.
Dead air costs you authority. The moment your eyes leave the counterparty, the room can read hesitation, a dependence on files and a figure you do not hold yourself.
2. The diagnosis: stored is not retrievable
You did not freeze for lack of preparation. The figure never left the file.
A spreadsheet stores by copying: complete, and asking nothing of you. Memory stores by encoding: deliberate attention at intake and a link to something already known (manual p. 6).
Sparrow, Liu and Wegner (2011) found that people told a computer would save a statement recalled fewer statements than people told it would be erased. The manual treats this as one input to the offloading literature (Risko and Gilbert, 2016), not as proof, and notes that Camerer et al. (2018) did not reproduce one result from that paper.
Working memory is small. Plan on about four chunks (Cowan, 2001). A meeting asks them to track the counterparty, compose your reply and watch the clock.
Four slots in a meeting (illustration, not data; manual p. 16). A payload with no place to sit is displaced first. That is the manual's inference, not a measured result; Beilock and Carr (2005) tested arithmetic.
3. The mechanism: spatial indexing and the 3-second glance
Move the payload out of your head and onto the room.
The method of loci stores one image at each fixed place and recalls the images by walking the route. It is over two thousand years old (manual p. 18). UNSCRIPTED turns it into three steps.
Turn the payload into pictures
Abstract terms become concrete nouns through the Substitute Word Protocol (pp. 40-51). Numbers become pegs from the 00-99 lexicon (pp. 65-104): an invented multiple of 14.2 becomes peg 14 (tower) and peg 02 (sun), linked in order (pp. 97-98).
Bind each picture to a fixed station
Map ten stations within about two meters of where you sit: a carafe, a monitor bezel, a notepad corner (pp. 52-63). Your working memory then carries an address, not the payload (p. 16).
Rest your eyes on the station and read
In live use, rest your eyes on the anchor for three seconds and let the image surface. Nothing after three seconds? Move to the next station and return. Three seconds is the manual's working limit, not a finding.
Place works as an index because each station is its own cue, a route runs in one order and you already know your desk (p. 17).
4. Inside UNSCRIPTED (Edition 01)
A 140-page paper manual. No app, no login, no subscription.
Module 01: The Retrieval Diagnostic (pp. 1-24)
- The Meeting Test (p. 7): list five real recall demands and count what you held with no device.
- Five ways a second brain fails (p. 8): copy without encoding, the Notion Graveyard, lost sequence and more, each with a fix.
- Baselines A and B (pp. 21-23): a 12-word sequence test and a digit test, scored.
- Operator profile (p. 23): which tool to learn first.
Module 02: The 3 Applied Protocols (pp. 25-64)
- The four image rules (p. 26): Swap, Scale, Multiply, Move; two at most per image.
- Protocol 01, Linear Link Chain (pp. 28-39): ordered sequences such as incident response steps and pitch sections.
- Protocol 02, Substitute Word (pp. 40-51): abstract jargon into concrete pictures.
- Protocol 03, Spatial Loci and the Micro-Palace (pp. 52-63): ten stations, the blind walk and the three-second glance.
Module 03: The 00-99 Visual Peg Lexicon (pp. 65-104)
- The sound key (p. 66): digits to consonant sounds, an idea first published by Pierre Herigone in 1634 (p. 2).
- 100 pegs, 00 Seesaw to 99 Pipe (pp. 70-94), already chosen for you.
- Encoders (pp. 97-100): long numbers, prices, decimals, percentages, ports and dates.
Module 04: The 30-Day Guided Palace Workbook (pp. 105-140)
- Four blocks a day (p. 105): Build 5 min, Sweep 3, Review 3, Retrieve 4.
- Six palaces in six five-day cycles: software and APIs, a clinical study aid, finance, an executive roster, Spanish and Japanese for business.
- The spacing ladder (p. 12): reviews at 10 minutes, 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days. The gaps are the manual's own working heuristic.
- Day 30 operator assessment (p. 138): about 40 minutes, retested against your Day 0 baseline.
Pages 70–71 of the manual: pegs 00 to 39
Inside the book
100 pegs, done for you.
Every number already has its picture. Five a day. About three minutes.
Each peg shows its number, the consonant sounds that spell it and one picture. Cover the words and name each peg from its picture, then cover the numbers.
5. Measure your own result
The audit is yours. Day 0 against Day 30.
This page shows no customer case studies. UNSCRIPTED publishes measured results only when they are real. What the manual gives you is the instrument: Baselines A and B on Day 0, the same tests on Day 30 (p. 23), and the operator assessment (p. 138).
| Baseline A measure | Range | Day 0 | Day 30 | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items recalled | 0-12 | 10-12 | ||
| In correct position | 0-12 | 9-12 | ||
| Concrete minus abstract | -6 to 6 | 1 or less |
Blank on purpose: you fill it in on manual p. 23. Targets are the manual's own working values, not norms. No result is promised.
6. What you get
One manual. Everything is in it.
| 140-page A5 manual, four modules | By post, free tracked shipping |
| 100 pegs with peg cards, reverse index and drills | In the manual |
| 30-day guided workbook with a Day 30 assessment | In the manual |
| Day 0 baseline sheet (PDF) | Emailed the moment you order |
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7. Risk reversal
The 60-Day Field-Performance Guarantee
Your 60 days start the day courier tracking confirms your manual is delivered. Run the 15-minute morning sessions in Module 04, then complete the operator assessment on page 138.
If you can't walk into a live meeting, pitch or exam and retrieve 10 sequential data points without touching a screen or glancing at paper, send one email. We'll refund your order straight away. Keep the manual. No worksheets to submit, no questions asked.
Fair-use terms: one guarantee claim per customer and household. On 2-packs and 3-packs, keep one manual; the unopened extras must be returned for a full refund. Full details in our Refund Policy.
8. Questions
Before you order
Will this work if I have an average memory?
The method does not depend on a gifted memory. It replaces it with a system: stations, concrete images and a retrieval cue. Your Day 0 baseline against your Day 30 retest gives you your own numbers. No result is promised.
Why a physical book instead of a PDF or a notes app?
You cannot open a notes app or a PDF during an audit, a cross-examination or a boardroom presentation. A paper manual keeps the training in the same no-screen condition you will perform in.
How much time does it take?
15 minutes each morning for the 30 daily sessions. Before Day 1 there is a one-time read of about three hours (easy to split across a weekend), and Day 30 ends with a 40-minute assessment.
What if I miss a day?
Don't double up. Run the missed day next and shift every later day one day later.
What do I need besides the manual?
An ordinary pencil, any timer and your desk. Nothing else is in the box.
Is this legal, financial or medical advice?
No. UNSCRIPTED is an applied professional training protocol, not a medical, psychological or clinical assessment or intervention. Pages that touch law or finance are study aids only.
9. The decision
Two ways into your next high-stakes room.
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