# Your encoded company workbook Use your own business sources. The Cedar Lane examples are fictional teaching material. ## Your company second brain - Business and owner: - Current offer and its source: - Current audience and its source: - Standards you repeatedly explain: - Material missing facts: - Person who accepts each current source: ## Map the company For marketing, sales, delivery, operations and finance, name the responsibility, input, useful output, reviewer and handoff. Link to shared company facts instead of copying them into every department. ## Choose the first department - Recurring job: - Source material: - Agent responsibility: - Skill and its quality standard: - Required tools and account access: - Human approval point: - Output location: - Next-session handoff: ## Measure the outcome Track before/after human minutes on comparable work, including review. Track setup, maintenance, AI cost, rework and accepted quality separately. Capacity returned is not automatically cash saved. ## Full teaching prompts and answers ## 013 · 06:28–06:53 · What is still waiting for you? Leads, content, client work or admin? Drop your biggest bottleneck in the chat. ## 017 · 08:10–08:35 · Which one sounds like you? 1 · I run a business 2 · I am starting one 3 · I build systems for clients ## 020 · 09:32–10:04 · A useful answer. Then what? Where is the current offer? Where is the finished work? How does tomorrow’s task find both? ## 022 · 10:36–11:08 · Why am I fixing the same thing again? You corrected the offer in one conversation. What should happen next? **Worked answer:** Update the current offer source and any affected work. The next task must read that source. ## 031 · 15:49–16:21 · You can start in plain English. “Read our offer and draft the next follow-up.” **Worked answer:** The terminal runs commands. The agent can help carry out the steps. You still need to understand what it is changing. ## 032 · 16:21–16:52 · Tell it what you need Example instruction in the selected company folder ```text Read the current company offer and audience. Use this week’s founder note. Prepare a useful content brief. Save a draft I can review. ``` ## 034 · 17:23–17:54 · Did it read the file? What turns file access into task context? **Worked answer:** A clear job, selected sources and an interpretation the owner can review. ## 035 · 17:54–18:25 · How your OS reaches your other tools. Your email, calendar and CRM can stay where they are. **Worked answer:** A connector gives the agent access to a specific tool. MCP is one standard for those connections. ## 038 · 19:21–20:07 · Make sense so far? Drop 1 in the chat if you can find the workspace, the agent and the files. ## 043 · 22:04–22:36 · Markdown is a readable text file Example business note.md ```text # Current offer A website clarity review for independent cafés. ## Unknown details - Price - Booking URL ``` ## 044 · 22:36–23:08 · What does .md mean? Is a Markdown document special AI code? **Worked answer:** It is a plain-text document with simple formatting, such as headings and lists. ## 046 · 24:01–24:33 · The company’s basic facts company.yaml — fictional teaching example ```text name: Cedar Lane Studio audience: independent cafés offer: website clarity review owner: studio founder first_department: marketing first_workflow: content brief and post draft ``` ## 049 · 25:37–26:09 · Which source is current? Which source decides the studio’s current audience? **Worked answer:** The owner-accepted audience file. Use the current owner-accepted source and resolve any material conflict. ## 054 · 28:17–28:49 · Why keep versions? What happens when an offer or rule changes? **Worked answer:** Keep the history, identify the current version and update the work that depends on it. ## 056 · 29:36–30:00 · Your first folder structure Drop 1 if you can see where your offer, rules and outputs would live. ## 063 · 32:41–33:09 · Tell it how your business works. Teaching prompt — company discovery ```text Read the business sources I selected. Ask about gaps that change how the company operates. Cover the offer, audience, delivery and standards. Propose a company overview with links to the sources. Read it back to me before treating it as current. ``` ## 065 · 33:37–34:05 · What should the agent ask you? Which fact would change the work if it misunderstood your company? ## 066 · 34:05–34:47 · Turn your sources into company knowledge. Prompt 1: orient and draft ```text Read the selected offer, audience, voice and founder note. We are encoding one content-brief operation. Draft the relevant context and link the sources. Name material conflicts and missing facts. Preserve existing owner content. Show what would change the brief. ``` ## 067 · 34:47–35:15 · Did it understand your company? knowledge/context.md — excerpt ```text Purpose: help independent café owners spot website gaps. Offer: website clarity review. Sources: offer.md, audience.md, voice.md, founder-note.md. Output: one brief for owner review. Unknown: price, booking URL and measured outcomes. ``` ## 068 · 35:15–35:43 · Does the answer match your business? The context says “premium restaurants.” What should the owner do? **Worked answer:** Correct the audience and reconcile the context. Save the current audience in its authoritative source, then fix affected derived work. ## 069 · 35:43–36:11 · Teach it the correction. Keep it. Prompt 2: save the owner decision ```text Our current audience is independent cafés. Preserve the original raw note. Update the authoritative audience source if needed. Reconcile the context and affected draft. Show what changed and what still needs review. ``` ## 078 · 40:28–40:55 · The OS should ask, not make it up. The company has no approved price in its sources. What should the brain say? **Worked answer:** Price is not supplied. Ask the owner when a priced proposal requires it. ## 081 · 42:03–42:35 · Can you see the company second brain? Drop 1 if you can see how the same company knowledge supports different departments. ## 091 · 47:19–47:49 · A tool lets the agent take an action How is a skill different from a file-reading tool? **Worked answer:** The skill explains the procedure. The tool performs an action, such as reading or saving a file. ## 095 · 49:24–50:00 · Who does what? Which description is correct? **Worked answer:** The agent is the worker. A skill supplies a procedure.. A configured agent uses the relevant skill and tools to perform a task. We inspect the output. ## 098 · 51:16–51:54 · The founder’s note sources/founder-note.md · excerpt ```text I want a short social post that helps an independent café owner inspect the basics on their website. Focus on three things a visitor needs: a current menu, opening hours and location. Explain each through a simple check they can do themselves. Close by inviting them to ask about a website clarity review. Keep this a helpful draft. We have no numbers showing that this will increase sales. Do not state a price because I have not supplied one. ``` ## 099 · 51:54–52:51 · The instruction for the run Live prompt · condensed from the method guide ```text Read the current content-brief skill and its named sources. State the expected criteria for this normal case. Produce one brief from sources/founder-note.md. Save it under outputs/ with draft status. Open the actual saved output and check the criteria. Record sources, skill version, output, runtime, date, evaluator type, findings and verdict in evidence/. Owner acceptance remains pending until the owner reviews it. ``` ## 103 · 57:15–57:53 · What should happen to this request? Which response follows the current skill? **Worked answer:** Remove the promise and save a useful unpublished alternative.. The unsupported outcome is excluded, and publication remains outside this operation. ## 106 · 59:28–60:06 · Tomorrow’s agent needs a handoff. STATE.md · illustrative excerpt ```text Operation: café website content Current: outputs/holiday-hours-post.md Status: draft; owner review pending Changed: public-holiday hours are the new focus Next: owner checks advice and current CTA Scope: local drafts only; do not publish ``` ## 107 · 60:06–60:44 · Pick up where the work stopped. What should the new session read before continuing? **Worked answer:** The workspace entry, current state, relevant current sources and the named output. ## 108 · 60:44–61:22 · A different topic, the same judgment Saved holiday-hours continuation — excerpt ```text Can a first-time visitor tell whether your café is open on a public holiday? Check the date, open-or-closed status, and hours. Keep the practical check and the review invitation. ``` ## 116 · 65:27–66:00 · Which screen would you open every morning? Your leads? Your client work? Your numbers? Name the decision it should help you make. ## 117 · 66:00–67:14 · Plan your own company OS. Write the company foundation and first department you would build. **Worked answer:** Cedar Lane: website clarity reviews for cafés, with a marketing department that turns founder notes into useful drafts. ## 118 · 67:14–67:44 · Choose the file your AI should trust Which document should the agent trust when two versions disagree? ## 123 · 69:32–70:00 · Want to build your company OS with us? You have seen the structure and the process. Now let’s look at the guided build.