The AI Employee Studio
Your AI has been on the payroll for months. Nobody onboarded it.
Even if you filled in the custom instructions and fed it your brand guide. This is four weeks of training your AI the way you'd train a person you just hired.
Starts Tuesday, September 22. See what the four weeks cover.
Four weeks, eight live sessions · Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00 PM Arizona · Starts Tuesday, September 22 · Every session recorded and yours to keep · On Zoom
It's 9:40 at night and your laptop is still open. Or maybe you're drafting on your phone because you just remembered that one thing you wanted to say and you don't want to get up and find your laptop. The post you need for tomorrow has been rewritten four times. The first version came back grammatically fine and completely flat, so you told it to be warmer and more conversational, and it came back warm the way a greeting card is warm.
You've got the paid plan. You filled in the custom instructions back in February, the ones asking what you do and who you serve. You've saved prompts other people swore by. Somewhere in there you started opening a blank document instead, because by the time you explain what you want three times and fix what comes back, you could've written it yourself.
So the tool sits there costing twenty dollars a month, and the writing still happens at night.
What usually turns out to be wrong
He thought his AI had gotten dumber
A man I was casually chatting with told me his AI was so unpredictable. Sometimes it was sharp and other times it just got dumb. He figured the company had downgraded something, or that he'd used up whatever the good version was.
He'd been working in the same chat for way too long. He had a project set up with his company information in it, but he didn't want to lose the context of a report he kept revising for new clients, so everything stayed in the one thread. The project had the basics and he was barely using it. Nobody had told him he could ask for a recap of everything they'd covered and carry it into a clean thread.
That took five minutes to fix. He'd been losing hours a week to it since the beginning of the summer, and he had no way of knowing it could be different, because the tools don't tell you what you didn't think to ask. There's no manual and no orientation. You get a blank box and a cursor.
Almost everything I fix in a session with someone looks like this. Nothing is broken. You really can't break this stuff. The setup just was never finished, and the setup is a great deal more than the custom instructions box.
You were handed a blank box and a cursor, and told it would change everything.
The four weeks
What we do, in order
The order matters more than any single week does. Each one is built on the one before it.
Week one · Setting it up properly
By Thursday you'll have a setup that's finished rather than started.
We start inside the account you already pay for. What the custom instructions box does and where it stops. Projects, memory, and why a chat that's run since spring gets worse instead of better. How to set the way it talks to you, so it argues with you when you need it to. Which tool for which job, what each one is actually good at, and when the free one is fine. You'll leave week one with a setup that's finished rather than started.
Week two · Drawing out your voice
By Thursday you'll have more of your own voice guide written than you expected.
How you sound isn't an adjective, which is why telling it to be warm has never worked. This is the week we get it down on paper. The words you use and the ones you'd never say, how you open, what you cut, the rhythm someone would recognize with your name taken off. I ask the questions and you answer them, and by Thursday you'll have written more of your own voice guide than you thought you had in you.
Week three · Drawing out what you know
By Thursday your AI stops guessing at how you run things.
The part that lives in your head. How you price, how you decide who's a fit, what you say to the client who goes quiet, the order you do things in and the reason for it. You'll record yourself doing a thing one time rather than sitting down to write it up, and we turn the recording into the written procedure. This is the week your AI stops guessing at how you run things.
Week four · Where the agents come in
By Thursday you'll know what building one actually takes, and what yours could do.
This is the payoff week. The foundation goes in, we brief it on real work, the thing sitting on your list right now, and look at what comes back together. Agents and scheduled tasks finally earn their keep once there's something real behind them, so you'll see what yours could do, including saved skills it reuses without being told twice, and you'll know what building one actually takes. We'll also cover where to keep all of this so it's there every time, and how to keep it current as the business changes.
How a week works
Two live sessions, and the second one is yours
Thursday · 3:00pm AZ time · You bring your work
What you built, what broke, or the thing you got stuck on Tuesday night. Bring your real work. That's the entire reason the second session exists. If you can only be at a desk once a week, make it Thursday.
Tuesday · 3:00pm AZ time · I teach
I show you the thing on a screen and we work through it together, with my own business and my own files open where that makes it clearer.
Every session runs sixty minutes, with an optional thirty minutes of Q&A from 4:00 to 4:30. Block ninety minutes on your calendar so you can stay if you want, but you are free to leave.
Every session is recorded and the recordings stay yours permanently. Miss a Tuesday and you can catch up before Thursday. Miss a whole week and you're not behind, watch it when you can and bring your questions to the next one. Afternoons are busy. Dinner prep, the pickup line, sports shuffling. You can still be there. Cameras are optional every session, and I mean it.
Who's teaching it
I did this wrong for a while first
I thought training an AI meant typing in my business type and my target market, and then rewriting whatever came back until it sounded like me. I did that for months. I told people it was working.
Before this I spent fifteen years in corporate, half of it designing commercial hospitality interiors and half of it running software implementations. Design school taught me anthropometrics and human behavior, how a person moves through a space and what they do when the space fights them. The software work taught me what happens when a system gets handed to people nobody talked to first. Both of those turned out to be the same job I'm doing now.
I'm certified through the IAAIC. I won't tell you I know all of AI, because the field is enormous and it moves every month. What I know is how to get what's in your head into a form a machine can use, and I've been doing that part for fifteen years under a different job title.
What the advice usually leaves out
The room groaned, and then the panel moved on
I was in the audience at a panel a while back when someone on stage said that AI is trained to be supportive and agreeable. The whole room groaned. Everybody had felt it. You bring it a plan and it tells you the plan is great.
The advice from the stage was to stay skeptical of what it hands you, and to open your prompts by giving it a role, act like an expert in whatever the subject is. That works. It also means typing it again every time you open a new chat, at nine at night, when you're tired and you just want the thing done.
Nobody said the other part. You can tell it to question your assumptions, to ask what you haven't considered, to say so when it thinks you're wrong. And you can set that once so it holds in every conversation you have from then on. It's one box you fill in one time.
What you leave with
And what you won't
Four weeks is enough to build the foundation and know how to use it. It isn't enough for me to hand you a finished system, and I'd rather say that in September than have you find it out in October.
Knowing how to onboard the next one. Your AI is a hire. You'll know how to onboard the next one, and the one after that, without me in the room.
Your voice and how you work, written down. The template filled in, and the ways to fill it it that don't involve sitting down to write a manual. Your voice and your operating knowledge, out of your head and into a form your AI can read.
A setup that's finished. Projects, memory, and instructions doing what they're supposed to do, in the tool that suits the job, including how you want it to talk to you.
Files that outlive the tool. All of it lives in your own files rather than inside one company's product. In the last few months I've watched people lose custom setups when a plan changed underneath them, and watched a tool go dark for two days. The ones who were fine were the ones whose information was never only in there.
Eight recordings that stay yours.
Not a set of running agents doing your work while you sleep. That's a build, and it's a different piece of work that comes after this one.
The price
$147 for this first cohort
The standard price is $197. This is the first time I'm running it, so I don't have a page of people telling you it was worth it. This cohort is $147, and the difference is what I think that's worth.
Sit through the first week, and if it isn't what you expected, email me before week two starts on Tuesday, September 29, and I'll refund you in full.
Four weeks. Eight live sessions. Starts Tuesday, September 22, at 3:00 PM Arizona.
Before you decide
What people ask me first
I've barely used AI. Is this too advanced for me?
No. Week one starts with the account and the setup, and I'm not assuming you've done anything in there beyond typing in the box. If you've been using it for two years you'll still find things in week one, because most people who've been in there for two years never finished the setup either.
What I won't do is spend four weeks on the basics. By Thursday of the first week everyone's standing in the same place, and we go from there.
I don't have time to learn another thing.
You're not learning a platform. Most of these four weeks is you talking about your business, and me showing you how to get what's in your head out of it without sitting down to write a manual. Interview-style prompts that pull it out of you. Dictation, so you talk instead of type. A Loom of you doing a task one time, turned into the written procedure. Transcripts of conversations you were already having anyway.
What you end up with is a business somebody else could run a piece of, whether that somebody is a person or a machine. If a week gets away from you, the recordings are yours and the work is still there when you come back.
What if I get in and it isn't what I expected?
Sit through the first week, and if it isn't what you expected, email me before week two starts on Tuesday, September 29, and I'll refund you in full.
Will this replace me, or my staff?
No. The whole method depends on you staying in it, because what the AI produces can only be as good as the judgment you put into it. If anything you'll see more of your own thinking in what comes out, since you'll finally have written down the things you've been carrying around in your head.
Is using AI cheating? Will my clients hold it against me?
The version people object to is the version that sounds like nobody. If your AI is trained on how you think and what you'd actually say, what comes out is yours the way a letter your assistant drafted and you signed is yours. You still read it. You still change things. That's the design.
There's also the question of what you hand it. We put the AI on the work a computer should have been doing all along, so your hours go to the things that made you want to start this in the first place. Your clients feel that part, even if they never find out how the first draft got written.
What if I miss a session?
Every session is recorded and the recordings are yours permanently. The Thursday sessions are where your own questions get answered, so those are the ones worth protecting. If you can't make one, send me the question beforehand and I'll cover it in the room.
What do I need to bring?
A laptop and a paid plan on ChatGPT or Claude. Either one is fine and we cover the difference between them in week one, if you aren't sure which to get. Bring one real piece of work you keep putting off. That's what we'll use.
You already pay for it every month. What would it be worth if it knew what you know?
Starts Tuesday, September 22, at 3:00 PM Arizona.
Miss this one? The next cohort starts October 20.
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