Watch a morning run
Forty minutes of real work, compressed to ninety seconds. The founder talks; the system opens the session, reads what is due, brings decisions and turns each answer into a rule it will follow next time. Click any grey line to see what it actually looked up.
- LookupThe system checking live state before it speaks. It reads; it does not guess.
- DecisionA choice only the founder can make, briefed, with a recommended option first.
- RulingThe founder's answer, filed as a standing rule so the same question never comes back.
- LearningA mistake the system caught in itself, written down where the next session will read it.
- AlertSomething that needs attention today, with the numbers that prove it.
Names, amounts and identifiers removed; the shape of the work is unchanged. Space bar plays and pauses.
The one rule that makes it safe: the approval lattice
The system may do a great deal. What it may do without asking is a much shorter list, and it is written down. Every action falls through one of three gates. Reading and drafting are automatic: nothing changes, so nothing needs a yes. Creating needs approval: it is usually undoable, but it adds weight you will carry. Deleting, spending, sending, or widening anyone's reach is always asked about, however small. A class of action only graduates to a lower gate when it passes a four-part test, and the test is strict on purpose. That is what lets you hand over real power: you never wonder what it might have done.
- Gate 1 · GreenRead & draftAutomatic. Done, then reported.
- Gate 2 · AmberCreateNeeds approval. Prepared, then asked once.
- Gate 3 · RedDelete, spend, send, widen reachAlways ask. Never on its own.
- Reversible?Can it be undone completely?
- Internal?Does nothing leave the system?
- Objective?Is "right" checkable, not taste?
- Bounded?Is the worst case small and known?
This is a 60-rule heuristic so you can feel the idea. In the system itself the same gates are a written ruling the assistant reads at every session open.
Four rungs. Stop on whichever one is enough.
Nothing above needs a team or a budget. It needs a way of thinking about these AIs — memory they can check, a method they follow, rules they cannot quietly bend — and the guide teaches that one rung at a time. Every rung is a complete system on its own.
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Level 0
€0
Free
The AI account you already have, a job description and a two-minute open-and-close ritual.
Start here → -
Level 1
€20/mo
One subscription
A paid assistant plus a free database it can open, so it looks things up instead of remembering.
Read level 1 → -
Level 2
€100–200/mo
No hardware
Hosted agents and schedules, so work keeps moving while you are not in a conversation.
Read level 2 → -
Level 3
€500+
Your own machine
An always-on box at home that runs builds and jobs overnight and answers only to the lattice.
Read level 3 →
Or skip ahead: clone the starter kit and have the obligation views and the session ritual running on a free database in fifteen minutes.
Four ideas do almost all the work
- Obligations, not tasks.Everything open has an owner and a date to check it again — so nothing rots quietly in a list.
- The approval lattice.Three gates and a four-part test decide what happens without a yes.
- The session ritual.Every session opens by reading what is due and closes by writing a handoff the next one can trust.
- Rulings over approvals.Answer a question once, as a rule, and the system stops asking it.