Arrive with the deck already loaded
Open the site on your own phone before the room fills and walk to your group with it loaded. The site caches itself after the first visit, so a device that has been used once keeps working when the venue network does not.
Carry the printed run map as well. Every card works as a spoken question with no device at all, and that is the designed fallback rather than a failure.
One AI Steward per group, and only one
Ask each group to name one person to run the prompts. That person runs at most one prompt at a time and reads every result aloud.
This is not a convenience. Groups where several people paste into their own assistants converge on the same answers, which is the outcome the whole workshop is built to avoid.
Call the dial, because the software will not
The site shows which state the dial is in, but it never advances on its own. There is no timer and no countdown anywhere in the product. You call every block.
The dial is not a climb. It returns from active to light between the two diamonds, and it goes dark once, at the commitment, and stays there.
Four things to hold, whatever else happens
Facilitate, do not solve. The moment you supply the answer, the group stops owning it.
Every voice contributes. The quietest person at a group usually holds the objection worth hearing.
Guard against the crutch. If a group asks the assistant whether their idea is good, remind them of the fifth house rule: it will say yes.
Keep the time boxes. Ten minutes means ten minutes, and the converge blocks are where a slipped schedule does the most damage.
When something breaks
The network fails: ask the front-side question aloud. Every card is a discussion prompt first, and the group loses nothing structural.
A prompt returns the wrong shape, four items instead of five: ask for exactly five. The card text is fixed and does not need editing.
An assistant refuses or stalls: move to the spoken question and come back. Do not spend a time box debugging a tool.
A group is stuck on the statement: hand them the closest candidate and let the gate do the sharpening.