I hear this in almost every conversation I have. That’s why I built a cohort as a place to start. TEMPO is a six-week guided program where you build a real AI operating system around your own work, in a small group: it plans your days, remembers everything you feed it, briefs you each week, and writes in your voice. You don’t need to be technical. You need six weeks and a place to begin.
Next cohort: August 25 to October 1, 2026
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.
This is a hands-on program where you learn to use AI by building, not a theoretical course about what AI might do someday. By the end, you'll have a structured setup that plans your days, processes your meeting notes, builds a knowledge base that compounds with everything you feed it, and writes in your voice.
And it's more than the build. TEMPO is a course in AI itself: we start from the true basics (what a model actually is, how to talk to it, what context and sessions are) and work up through skills, automations, and agents that run on their own. You learn each concept the week you need it, and you practice it on a system you're using every single day. In the first cohort, this was the part people told me they didn't expect and appreciated most.
You won't be starting from scratch. You'll be starting from a system I've spent months building and refining for my own practice, and you'll make it yours.
People who want AI working as a real part of their practice, not as an occasional tool. Fractional executives, consultants, coaches, and professionals inside organizations who want to get ahead of where their teams are going. Non-technical, operationally minded, and ready to move past prompting and into building.
By the end you have a working system, built around how you actually work and running every day: daily planning from your calendar, tasks, and meeting notes; a second brain that gets sharper with everything you feed it; a weekly brief on the sources that matter; and writing in your voice, not a generic one. You leave with it live, and the skills to keep building on it.
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 drop-in setup session for anything you're stuck on, and me in Slack until everything works. 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 Thursday. 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, Thursdays at 10am ET / 3pm UK / 5pm East Africa (Week 1 opens with a Tuesday kickoff), and every session is recorded. 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.
Which one is right for you? If you're comfortable figuring things out with a group and a Slack channel behind you, TEMPO is enough. If you're newer to this and want someone in your corner, or you already know you'll want to take the system further than the curriculum goes, that's what Guided is for. In the first cohort, the people who got the most out of 1:1 time were the ones who came in newest.
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.
The June/July pilot cohort sold out quickly. The next cohort runs August 25 to October 1, 2026. Leave your details and you'll be the first to hear when registration 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, in service of the work that matters to you. That's what I mean by AI on purpose.