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15 modules · 89 lessons · 12 hours 16 minutes · 15 deliverables. Nothing hidden behind the buy button.
Module order is for learning. Rollout order is for payback.
Module 14 sequences the build differently on purpose: the follow-up bridge first because it pays back
fastest, content second because it compounds slowest, lead generation last — because turning on the tap
before you fix the leak just loses more leads.
00 Start Here Get oriented, be honest about scope, and commit to the one rule that keeps you out of trouble.
- 0.1 Welcome: What You're Actually About to Build Knows the destination of the course and can state the anti-promise in their own words. 3m
- 0.2 The Autopilot Map: The Seven Systems Can name the seven systems, and has scored their own business on each one to find the gap they start with. 7m
- 0.3 How to Use This Course: Three Budget Tiers, Three Time Tiers Has picked one budget tier and one time tier, with a specific weekly block written into a calendar. 5m
- 0.4 The One Rule: Dry Run First, Always Can name the three gates and has signed the dry-run commitment before building anything. 4m
Module deliverablesigned Autopilot Commitment sheet + tier selection.
Free with any account
01 AI Agent Foundations Kill the confusion between chatbots, automations and agents. This is the module that makes everything after it land.
- 1.1 Chatbot vs Automation vs Agent — The Difference That Costs People Money Can classify any "AI" tool they're sold as a chatbot, an automation, or an agent — in under a minute, using three questions. 7m
- 1.2 Anatomy of an Agent: Model, Tools, Memory, Loop Can draw the four parts and the four-step loop from memory, and can say where guardrails go. 8m
- 1.3 What Agents Are Genuinely Great At — and the Five Things They're Bad At Stops assigning agents jobs they will fail, and can name the five failure categories on sight. 7m
- 1.4 Tokens, Context and Cost — the Owner's Version Can estimate what a workflow costs to run per month, and knows the three things that make a bill explode. 6m
- 1.5 Local vs Cloud vs Always-On Server: Picking Your Home Base Has chosen where their agent will live, with a written reason. 8m
- 1.6 Your Automation Audit: Finding Your First Ten Wins Has a scored, ranked list of ten tasks and knows which one to build first. 9m
Module deliverableAutomation Audit worksheet**, scored by (hours saved × frequency) ÷ setup difficulty
Free with any account
02 Building Your AI Command Center Stand up an always-on agent you can text from your phone. First real moment where this stops being theory.
- 2.1 The Command Center Concept The learner can explain "one brain, many hands" and list every system their command center will eventually reach. 6m
- 2.2 Choosing Your Agent: Claude, Hermes, and What Each Is For The learner has picked the runtime their command center will use, and knows what it will cost them in money and maintenance. 8m
- 2.3 Standing Up an Always-On Agent on a Twenty-Dollar Server The learner has an agent running on a rented server as a service that survives a reboot, reachable only over a private network. 11m
- 2.4 Talking to Your Business From Your Phone The learner can message their agent from Telegram, with an allowed-users list locking everyone else out. 8m
- 2.5 Memory: Teaching the Agent Your Business Once The learner has written a one-page `BUSINESS.md` the agent reads every session, including a hard-rules section. 9m
- 2.6 Skills: Turning a Repeated Task Into a Button The learner has authored one skill with a name, description, triggers and steps — and has run it once as a dry run. 10m
Module deliverablelive agent + `BUSINESS.md` memory file + one working skill
03 Connecting Your Tools APIs and MCP in plain English. This is where most owners quit, so the whole job here is to make the plumbing boring.
- 3.1 What an API Key Actually Is (and Why It's a House Key) The learner can explain what an API key is, what scopes are, and can create and revoke one without fear. 6m
- 3.2 MCP: The USB-C Port for AI The learner can explain what an MCP server is and check whether a tool they use has one. 7m
- 3.3 Connecting Your First Tool, End to End The learner has one MCP server connected, one call run, and the result confirmed on the platform side. 9m
- 3.4 OAuth, Tokens and Expiry — Why It Broke at 2 A.M. The learner can identify every token's lifetime, diagnose an expired token, and set up a heartbeat that reports silence. 7m
- 3.5 Credential Hygiene: The Vault Rule The learner has every credential out of plaintext and into environment variables or a permissions-locked secrets file. 8m
- 3.6 Building Your Integration Map The learner has a one-page Integration Map covering every tool, connection, credential name and expiry date. 7m
Module deliverableIntegration Map + a secrets file with correct permissions
04 Social Media Autopilot: Facebook & Instagram Connect Meta properly, publish, schedule, and triage comments and DMs — inside the rules.
- 4.1 What Meta Actually Lets You Automate in 2026 The learner can say exactly what Meta permits, what it bans, and what must exist before they build anything. 9m
- 4.2 Business Account, Page, App: The Setup Nobody Explains The learner has a business or creator Instagram account linked to a Facebook Page, and an app that can reach both. 10m
- 4.3 Getting a Long-Lived Token That Doesn't Die The learner holds a working long-lived Page token, stored in a vault, with a reminder and a heartbeat on it. 8m
- 4.4 Publishing to Instagram: The Two-Step Container Flow The learner can publish an image, a carousel and a reel to Instagram by command, and knows why a post gets rejected. 9m
- 4.5 The Scheduling Layer: Queues, Slots and Best-Time Posting The learner has permanent daily slots defined and a thirty-day queue filled without picking a single time by hand. 9m
- 4.6 Cross-Posting Without Sounding Cross-Posted The learner's agent turns one idea into platform-native versions instead of copying one caption everywhere. 7m
- 4.7 The Comment and Mention Triage Agent The learner has comments and mentions pulled, sorted into five buckets, and replies drafted for the three that are safe to draft. 9m
- 4.8 DM Autopilot and the Twenty-Four-Hour Window The learner has a compliant automatic direct-message flow with a human handoff, and a compliance checklist they have signed off. 10m
Module deliverableLive Meta connection + 30-day queue + comment triage running + DM flow with a compliance checklist
05 The Content Engine Content stops being a feeling and becomes a pipeline, including short-form video without being on camera.
- 5.1 Brand Voice as a File The learner has a written `VOICE.md` file their agent reads before it writes anything. 8m
- 5.2 The Content Pillar System The learner has four named content pillars with a percentage on each, and knows why the percentages exist. 7m
- 5.3 From One Idea to Thirty Posts The learner can turn one core idea into roughly thirty drafts using seven named angles, and can triage them fast. 9m
- 5.4 Hooks, Captions and C-T-As the Agent Can Actually Write The learner has a hook swipe file the agent draws from, and one CTA rule enforced on every post. 8m
- 5.5 Images: Generation, Brand Templates and Batch Editing The learner can produce on-brand images at volume using templates and a batch process that does not degrade. 10m
- 5.6 Short-Form Video Without Being on Camera The learner ships one faceless reel end to end — script, voice, visuals, burned-in captions, publish. 11m
- 5.7 The Weekly Content Run: One Prompt, a Month of Posts The learner has a repeatable content run on a schedule, with a human review gate before anything queues. 10m
- 5.8 Repurposing: Blog to Post to Email to Reel The learner can turn one blog post into five distinct assets, each rewritten for its format. 8m
Module deliverable`VOICE.md` + pillar sheet + 30 scheduled posts + one finished faceless reel
06 Analytics and the Feedback Loop Numbers pull themselves, and the agent changes the plan based on what actually worked.
- 6.1 The Only Six Social Metrics That Matter The learner can name the six metrics that predict revenue, and can apply the "would you pay for this number" test to kill everything else. 7m
- 6.2 Pulling Your Numbers Automatically The learner has all six metrics landing in one sheet on a schedule, without logging into any platform. 8m
- 6.3 The Weekly Analytics Agent The learner has a weekly workflow that pulls the week, compares it to a four-week baseline, ranks posts, and sends a summary short enough to read on a lock screen. 9m
- 6.4 Teaching the Agent to Change the Plan The learner has a closed loop where the agent proposes a content plan change, a human approves it, and the queue updates — gated by a minimum sample rule and a two-week confirmation. 8m
- 6.5 The End-of-Day Report That Runs Your Business The learner has a nightly four-line report on their phone covering what came in, what went out, what broke, and what needs them tomorrow. 8m
Module deliverableWeekly analytics report + nightly end-of-day message, both automated
07 Lead Generation Agents Fill the top of the funnel without buying lists — and know exactly where the legal and ethical lines are.
- 7.1 Where Leads Actually Come From The learner can name the five real lead sources, and has picked the two their business will run for the next ninety days. 6m
- 7.2 The Google Maps Lead Scraper The learner runs a Google Maps scrape for one category and radius, and cleans the output into a filtered list that matches one specific offer. 10m
- 7.3 Directory and Search Scraping Without Getting Blocked The learner can tell a normal page from a bot-walled one, and picks the light tool by default and the stealth browser only when the wall is real. 9m
- 7.4 LinkedIn and Job-Board Signals The learner can read a hiring post as a buying signal and turn it into a specific opening line. 8m
- 7.5 Enrichment: Turning a Name Into a Lead The learner turns a raw scrape into a contactable, deduped CRM record using phone plus domain as the identity key. 9m
- 7.6 Lead Scoring With an Agent The learner builds a three-part weighted score, has the agent apply it to their list, and works only the top twenty percent. 8m
- 7.7 The Legal and Ethical Lines The learner can run the five-question pre-flight test before any outreach campaign and knows the difference between what is legal, what breaches a contract, and what gets an account killed. 9m
Module deliverable200+ scored, enriched leads in the CRM
08 CRM and Follow-Up Automation The money module. The follow-up gap is where most of your revenue is quietly dying.
- 8.1 The Follow-Up Gap Is Where Your Money Is The learner can measure their own response-time gap and put a dollar figure on it. 6m
- 8.2 Choosing or Building a CRM You Actually Own The learner has picked hosted or self-hosted using a written decision rule, and has their contacts in one system. 9m
- 8.3 Form → CRM → Campaign: The Bridge The learner has a form submission that lands in the CRM, starts the right sequence, and alerts their phone — inside sixty seconds. 10m
- 8.4 Nurture Sequences That Don't Feel Automated The learner has one sequence architected and written, with human sign-off before any live send. 10m
- 8.5 Quote Follow-Up and Re-Engagement The learner has a 21-day quote chase and a cold re-engagement play running, both with an honest exit email. 8m
- 8.6 Deliverability: Getting Into the Inbox The learner has SPF, DKIM and DMARC in place, a warming plan, bounce handling, and a pre-send checklist. 10m
- 8.7 The Autoresponder Agent The learner has an agent that polls inbound mail every five minutes, classifies it, drafts or auto-sends by category, and escalates anything risky. 9m
Module deliverableWorking form-to-campaign bridge + one live nurture sequence + passing deliverability test
09 Websites on Autopilot Turn the site into a capture machine instead of a brochure, with sub-60-second response.
- 9.1 What a Website Is For (It Has One Job) The learner can name their site's one action and delete or demote everything on the homepage that competes with it. 6m
- 9.2 Building a Converting Site With an Agent The learner can write a four-part build brief, have an agent produce a live page from it, and edit that page like an editor instead of a coder. 11m
- 9.3 Forms, Webhooks and Instant Response The learner has a form with a hidden source field and real spam protection, wired to a webhook that produces a response in under sixty seconds. 9m
- 9.4 The AI Chat Widget on Your Site The learner can deploy a chat widget grounded in a real facts file, with an escalation path, a conversation cap, and email capture before the third answer. 9m
- 9.5 Local SEO and Google Business Profile Automation The learner has consistent NAP across directories, a correct primary category, a weekly post and monthly photo cadence, and review requests firing on job completion. 10m
- 9.6 Change Requests, Monitoring and Uptime The learner has uptime and certificate monitoring, a form-submission canary, and a change-request intake that replaces late-night text messages. 8m
Module deliverableLive site with instant-response form, chat widget, and an uptime monitor
10 Client Portals and Back-End Systems Stop answering “any update?” emails. Build the portal, the invoicing, and one dashboard for everything.
- 10.1 Why a Portal Beats an Email Thread The learner can calculate their own status-request support load and name the three things that must live in the portal for it to survive. 6m
- 10.2 Designing the Portal: What Clients Actually Need to See The learner has a one-screen portal spec containing exactly five elements, with a written list of what they deliberately cut. 8m
- 10.3 Building It: Login, Dashboard, Data The learner has a live portal with a maintained login, one read-only data source, and a documented isolation test they have run and passed with two accounts. 12m
- 10.4 Payments, Invoices and Reminders The learner has a four-rung reminder ladder with saved state, written stop conditions, and a hosted checkout so card data never touches their server. 9m
- 10.5 Files, Docs and a Private Cloud The learner has one identical five-folder structure per client in a private cloud, with permissions on folders, expiring links, and a nightly sync that alerts when it fails. 8m
- 10.6 Mission Control: One Screen for the Whole Business The learner has one dashboard showing five blocks — leads, revenue, overdue, broken, and what the agent did overnight — built from systems they already run. 9m
Module deliverableLive client portal + automated invoice reminders + Mission Control dashboard
11 Scheduling, Triggers and Orchestration Make it all run on its own — and know instantly when it doesn't.
- 11.1 Cron, Webhooks and Events The learner can pick the right trigger for any job using the waiting rule, read a five-field cron line, and set a time zone deliberately instead of by accident. 8m
- 11.2 n8n versus Code versus Agent: Choosing the Right Tool The learner can assign any step to a visual workflow, a small script, or an agent — and can build the composite pattern where the workflow does the plumbing and calls the agent only for judgment. 9m
- 11.3 Building Your First Multi-Step Workflow The learner has a seven-node workflow running on a schedule — trigger, fetch, filter, agent, human review branch, send, log — dry-run tested before it was ever scheduled. 11m
- 11.4 Error Handling, Alerts and Heartbeats The learner has a heartbeat monitor watching every workflow's success timestamp, phone alerting on staleness, and a retry ceiling on both workflows and agents. 9m
- 11.5 The Daily, Weekly and Monthly Cadence Blueprint The learner has a filled-in cadence sheet placing every automation on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly slot, with load spread across the clock. 8m
Module deliverableCadence blueprint + heartbeat monitor with phone alerting
12 Building Your Own Agents and Skills Graduation. You stop following recipes and start writing them.
- 12.1 The Skill Pattern Learner can look at any task in their business and correctly classify it as a prompt, a workflow, or a skill. 8m
- 12.2 Writing a Skill That Works Every Time Learner has authored one skill with a name, a triggering description, explicit triggers, numbered steps, inputs, hard rules and a worked example — and has debugged it through at least two runs. 10m
- 12.3 Multi-Agent: Delegation and Sub-Agents Learner can split one oversized job across sub-agents with complete briefs and defined returns, and knows when delegation is not worth the cost. 9m
- 12.4 Testing: Dry Run, Sandbox, Go Live Learner has a three-gate release process and can state the blast radius of any automation before turning it on. 9m
- 12.5 Version Control and Backups for Non-Developers Learner can roll back any change, knows exactly what to back up and where, and has completed one successful restore. 8m
Module deliverabletwo original skills + a documented release process + working, tested backups
13 Safety, Compliance and Cost Control The module that keeps you in business: the four ways automation gets you banned, and what this should really cost.
- 13.1 The Four Ways Automation Gets You Banned Learner has audited their own setup against all four failure modes and fixed anything that fails. 9m
- 13.2 Data, Privacy and Client Trust Learner knows what they may and may not store, who can see it, how long they keep it, and what to do in the first hour of a breach. 8m
- 13.3 Human-in-the-Loop: Where to Put the Gate Learner has a gate on every irreversible action in their system, placed at the last reversible moment. 8m
- 13.4 Cost Control: What This Should Actually Cost You Learner has a real monthly cost sheet, a spending cap, and the three levers that reduce it. 9m
- 13.5 Disaster Recovery: When It All Breaks Learner has a one-page runbook covering the five most likely failures and has completed one restore. 8m
Module deliverablecompleted compliance self-audit + monthly cost sheet + one successful restore test
14 Rollout: Your First 90 Days Turn a finished course into a finished system, sequenced by payback.
- 14.1 The 90-Day Rollout Plan Learner has a dated, sequenced 90-day plan with one system live at a time. 9m
- 14.2 Week One: Ship One Thing Learner has one automation live within seven days. 7m
- 14.3 Measuring ROI Honestly Learner can show hours recovered and leaks closed with real numbers, and knows the two ways this measurement lies. 8m
- 14.4 Scaling: When to Add People versus Agents Learner has a decision rule for every new task: automate it, hire for it, or delete it. 8m
- 14.5 Where This Goes Next Learner knows what they now have running, what it costs to maintain, and what the honest next steps are. 5m
Module deliverablecompleted 90-Day Rollout Plan + ROI baseline
Modules 0 and 1 are free.
Ten lessons, the Seven Systems, and the Automation Audit that sequences everything else.
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