AI Problem-Solving Pack — 8D Coach, Root-Cause Facilitator, Containment & Effectiveness Reviewer

Most 8Ds fail in the same three places: a cause nobody verified, containment that missed half the stock, and an "effective" fix that was checked for two weeks.

The AI Problem-Solving Pack gives you three coaches that catch exactly those failures — one discipline at a time, the way a good problem-solving coach would. They ask for facts, label every suggested cause as a hypothesis until your evidence verifies it, and never invent quantities, dates or results.

Each coach comes as a Claude Skill and as a universal prompt for ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot or Gemini.

What's included

• 8D Coach. Works D0 to D8 with your team, one discipline per turn: what's good, what's weak (quoted), the questions that close the gate, and a clear "ready to move on / not yet". It challenges the classic weak answers — a cause in the problem statement, containment in one location, "retrain the operator", "monitor for three months". Draft mode turns notes into an 8D; Review mode scores a finished 8D before it goes to the customer.
• Root-Cause Facilitator. Is/Is-Not first, then a full fishbone, then 5-Why chains with a "therefore" test on every link — for why it happened, why it escaped, and why the system allowed it. Hypotheses, verified causes and ruled-out causes stay separate, with a verification plan for each. Check mode tests an existing 5-Why.
• Containment & Effectiveness Reviewer. Is every location covered (supplier, transit, WIP, stock, customer, field), is the suspect window defined from the last known good, do the numbers reconcile, can the sort actually find the defect? Then: is the effectiveness check long enough to prove anything, given how often the problem used to happen? It shows the arithmetic and tells you when containment can safely come off.
• Quick-start guide (PDF): install, a worked first use for each coach, good habits and limits.

Why buy it

• The same method as the Qlause 8D Toolkit and the free 8D masterclass.
• Works with Claude (any plan, including Free), ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Gemini.
• Customer-specific 8D forms and rules come first: paste them and the coach follows them.
• 12 months of free updates by re-download. Instant download, secure checkout. 14-day, no-questions full refund.

Who it's for

Quality, process and supplier quality engineers answering customer complaints, recurring defects and formal 8D requests — and the team leaders who have to sign them off.

Good to know

• Single-user licence; Team Licence available (up to 10 users).
• The coaches advise; your team owns the analysis and signs it off. The statistics are rules of thumb, not a statistical plan. Follow your company's AI policy and anonymise customer data.
• Not affiliated with ISO, IATF or any certification body.