TEMPO is my six-week guided training program where you build that system around your own work, in a small group. It starts from your context and your judgment, and by the end it plans your days with you, remembers everything you feed it, briefs you each week, writes in your voice, and has agents doing real work you don’t have to redo. You don’t need to be technical. I’m not a developer, and I built the system you’ll start from.
Six weeks · Live, small group · Starts October 13 · $1,000, Guided $2,000
The first two cohorts sold out. Cohort 3 is capped at 20 people, small enough that everyone gets real time with me.
“I’d had plenty of interesting chats with Claude and Perplexity, but I couldn’t find the angle that would actually change how I work. Four weeks into the cohort I had a working AI operating system that knows me, supports my daily work, and thinks along with me on strategic decisions.”
“It has been literally life changing. And I tell every single person that.”
“Having the system remember for me has been huge. Every time I looked at a Post-it, I was thinking about the five things I wasn’t going to focus on.”
“I can honestly say my life has changed a lot from the system.”
“I said, Frank, give me some BD to do. And it did. I sent it out, and I’ve got a meeting booked from that outreach.”
A walkthrough of the AI operating system I use every day. This is the kind of system you'll build in TEMPO, shaped around how you actually work.
You build the core of the operating system first: the context files and writing rules that teach the system who you are, how you work, and what good looks like to you, and then your executive assistant on top of them, planning each day with you and reviewing your week. This is the part most people never do, and it's why their AI output stays generic. Yours starts from your judgment instead of a blank page.
From there the system grows around your work: a second brain that compounds with everything you feed it, a weekly intelligence brief built from the sources you chose, drafts that come back in your voice, and a dashboard that shows the whole system running.
And underneath the build runs the real curriculum: TEMPO is a course in AI itself, from the true basics up. Each week you're a step further along in how you direct it, from writing a prompt that gets what you want, to turning that prompt into a skill you can run any time, to routines that run on their own schedule, to agents doing real work to standards you defined. My own agents process my meetings, draft my follow-ups, grade their own output against my criteria, and only bring me what passes. That's agentic AI, and it is not out of your reach. In the first cohort, this part of the program was what people appreciated most.
It won't be perfect, and that's the design. The research on AI and thinking now cuts both ways: people who hand their thinking over get worse at it, and people who learn to direct AI get better. In TEMPO you judge everything the system produces, and the thinking stays yours.
You're probably already using AI every day. The gap is between having good conversations with it and having it do work you can trust. I built TEMPO for people doing purpose-driven work: independent consultants and fractional executives, coaches, and people inside nonprofits, social impact organizations, and mission-driven teams who want to get ahead of where their field is going. Non-technical, operationally minded, and ready to move past prompting and into building. That's the purpose in AI on Purpose: your work matters, and the quality bar should match.
“I’m the one who carries the emotional weight for my family and my team at work. This is the first thing that has actually taken some of that off me. Meal planning used to eat my entire Sunday. Now it takes minutes. And the reminders that used to just live in my head, with that constant low-grade fear of forgetting something, I say out loud and they’re there the next morning.”
Not sure whether this is for you, or whether the timing is right? Answer a few quick questions and my assistant will give you an honest recommendation: TEMPO, or TEMPO Guided (the option with 1:1 support). It takes a couple of minutes, and there's no pressure either way. It's also a working piece of exactly what you'd be learning to build.
Monday morning you plan your day with the system instead of from scratch: it reads your calendar, your tasks, and last week's meeting notes, drafts the plan, and you adjust it in minutes. The detail you half-remember from a call in March takes seconds to find. Drafts come back sounding like you, because the system holds your voice and your standards. Your weekly brief is waiting, built from the sources you chose. And the agents you built are working in the background, to criteria you set. You leave with all of it running, and the skills to keep building.
Every week includes a "how AI works" segment, and the sequence is deliberate: we start from the true beginning (what a model is, tokens, prompting, context, sessions) and build up week by week to skills, automations, and agentic AI. You're never learning theory in the abstract; each concept arrives the week your own system needs it. People at every baseline told me this was the part they valued most, so it's a standing part of the program, not an aside.
Six live sessions over six weeks, all 90 minutes, all recorded. You build each piece during the week, then we go deep together on what you built: what worked, what broke, and what the person next to you figured out that you'll want to steal. The best ideas in the first cohort came from the group, not from me.
Week 1 is a proper on-ramp: AI fundamentals from the true beginning, the full picture of what you're building, and step-by-step guides to get every tool installed and connected. Setup is the hardest part of this whole program, so I add extra support here: a two-hour build session on the Thursday where we work through it together, and me in Slack until everything works. That session is open to everyone, whichever option you choose. Nobody starts Week 2 half-connected.
A private cohort Slack, all the way through. My AI agent works in there around the clock and answers the questions it can the moment you post them, and I check in throughout each day to pick up everything else. So when you get stuck at 9pm on a connector that won't connect, you don't wait until Tuesday. The agent is also a working example of exactly what you're learning to build.
The complete kit: the vault structure, the context file templates, the skills, and the setup guides, taken directly from the system I use to run my own practice every day. You start from something that already works and shape it around your own clients, tools, and rhythm.
Live sessions are 90 minutes, Tuesdays at 10am ET / 3pm UK / 5pm East Africa, and every session is recorded. Setup is the hardest part of the program, so Week 1 adds a two-hour build session on the Thursday and everyone is welcome to it. The two later build sessions, on Oct 22 and Nov 5, are for TEMPO Guided participants. Each week the build guide drops at the start of the week; you build at your own pace, and we work through it together in the live session.
You won't be starting from scratch, but you will be investing real time. Plan on four to five hours a week: the 90-minute live session, that week's build, and time in the system on your real work.
The bigger commitment is what happens between the builds. This is an operating system, and an operating system only works if you run on it. That means using it daily: to plan and organize your day each morning, and for real work throughout the day. The people who get the most out of TEMPO are the ones who build the system into how they work, not just build it. Do that, and you'll see the value compound within the first couple of weeks.
“What I built on the TEMPO framework now runs the operational spine of my company. After more than a decade of running a service business, the daily operational work was still mine to carry every morning. That work now runs on scheduled agents: they pull from my phone lines, email, and scheduling software overnight, triage the hiring pipeline, draft the client documents I used to write by hand, and hand me a summary before I sit down. The framework has held up through more than a dozen builds I’ve added since. My goal was never more output. It was my life back.”
If you get to the end of week two and it isn't working for you, tell me and I'll refund you in full.
Employers often reimburse this as professional development. You'll get a receipt automatically when you join, and if you need more than that, email me and I can share a one-page overview for your manager.
Rather work with me directly? A single working sprint or a three-week intensive, curated to you. See the one-to-one options ↓
Which one is right for you? TEMPO if you're happy building alongside the group, with the cohort Slack behind you. Guided if you want me in your corner: someone who knows your setup, answers you directly, and makes sure you actually finish. In the first cohort, the people who got the most out of the one-to-one time were the ones who came in newest.
Not everything needs a cohort. There are two ways to work with me one-to-one.
As soon as you've paid, you'll get a welcome email with your receipt and a link to book your intake call, and we get started. Questions first? Book a free call and we'll talk it through.
The next cohort after this one starts in early 2027 — more details to come. Leave your email and I'll make sure you're the first to know when it opens.
Questions before you join? Email me at erica@layeradvisory.com and I'll get back to you. Enrollment is subject to the TEMPO terms and conditions.
TEMPO is the same idea I bring to every engagement, built for you: AI adopted deliberately, so it strengthens your thinking, in service of the work that matters to you. That's what I mean by AI on purpose.