TEMPO is my six-week training cohort where you build that system around your own work, in a small group. You don't need to be technical. I built the system you'll start from without being a developer, using the same tools you'll use.
Six weeks · Live, small group · Tuesdays, October 13 to November 17 · $1,000, Guided $2,000
Six weeks · Live, small group · Next cohort dates to be announced
The first two cohorts sold out.
“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.”
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.
Each week also teaches you how AI works, starting from the true basics (people in the first cohort told me this was the part they valued most). You go from writing a prompt that gets what you want, to turning it into a skill you can run any time, to routines that run on their own schedule, to agents doing 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 (this is what people mean by agentic AI). In TEMPO you build your own version of it, starting from mine.
The research on AI and thinking cuts both ways. People who hand their thinking over to AI get worse at thinking, while people who learn to direct it get better (I've linked the studies in my FAQ). In TEMPO you judge everything the system produces, so the thinking stays yours.
A full walkthrough (57 minutes, recorded in May) of the AI operating system I run my practice on. It's the system you start from in TEMPO and shape around how you work.
Every Tuesday there's a live 90-minute working session (all of them recorded). Each week's build guide arrives at the start of the week, you build at your own pace, and on Tuesday we work through what worked, what broke, and what the person next to you figured out.
Setup is the hardest part of the program, so week one has an extra two-hour build session on the Thursday where we get everyone set up and connected together.
Between sessions there's a private cohort Slack, so if you're stuck at 9pm on a connector that won't connect, you're not waiting until Tuesday. My AI agent answers what it can as soon as you post. I read the channel every weekday and pick up the rest with Megan's help.
You start from the complete kit I run my own practice on: the vault structure, the context file templates, the skills, and the setup guides.
Sessions start at 10am New York time: 3pm UK (2pm on October 27) and 5pm East Africa (6pm from November 3).
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, fractional executives, coaches, and people inside nonprofits and social impact organizations who want to get ahead of where their field is going. If you're operationally minded and ready to move past prompting into building, it's for you.
Plan on up to four hours a week for the live session and that week's build, plus the time you spend using the system day to day. An operating system only helps if you run on it, so the people who get the most out of TEMPO are the ones planning their days and drafting their work in it while they build it.
Not sure whether TEMPO is right for you, or whether this is the right time? Answer a few questions and my AI assistant will recommend TEMPO or TEMPO Guided based on what you tell it. It's also a working example of the kind of thing you'll learn to build.
“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.”
The October cohort meets on Tuesdays from October 13 to November 17 at 10am New York time, with the setup session on Thursday, October 15. TEMPO suits you if you're happy building alongside the group with the cohort Slack behind you. Guided suits you if you want someone who knows your setup, answers you directly, and makes sure you finish.
Register before October 13 and you'll also get a one-to-one session with me, where we look at your system together and work out what to build next.
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.
In the first cohort, the people who got the most out of the one-to-one time were the ones who came in newest.
Employers often reimburse this as professional development. You'll get a receipt automatically when you join. If you need more than that, email me and I'll send a one-page overview for your manager.
Questions first? Book a free 15-minute call. Enrollment is subject to the TEMPO terms and conditions.
I'll email you when the next cohort's dates are set.
Enrollment is closed for now. I'll email you as soon as the next cohort's dates are set.
TEMPO runs on Claude Code, inside the Claude desktop app. You'll need either a Claude Pro subscription ($20 a month, which you set up and manage yourself) or access through your organization's enterprise Claude plan. Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, works in a similar way and could in principle run a system like this, but everything I hand you is built and taught for Claude Code.
Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini can't run this system. It's built for Claude Code working on your own computer, so the kit won't run anywhere else. If Copilot is all your organization allows, TEMPO won't work for you on your own. If you lead a team in that position, talk to me about how I work with teams.
The point of this system is to connect AI to your tools: your email, your calendar, your meeting notes, your drives. If that raises questions for your organization, talk to your security or IT team before you sign up. You're welcome to email me with specific questions and I can tell you what answers you'll need from them. It's better to have a plan before enrolling so there are no surprises once we get started.
What you get from me is a kit: a zip file of plain text files. It holds Markdown instructions, a folder structure for your notes, a set of skills that tell Claude how to do specific jobs for you, and a small installer that puts everything where it needs to go. Nothing in it runs in the background. You'll also install a few things that aren't mine (Claude Code, Obsidian for your notes, and the connectors that link your email and calendar). I explain what each one does before you install it.
Part of the course is learning to check that yourself. I give you a security check prompt: you point Claude at anything you're about to install, from me or from anywhere else, and it reads the code and gives you a plain-language report on what that software can access and what the risks are. After that, what you install is your decision. You'll have a method for making it.
Your system lives on your own computer, in a folder you choose, and you decide which accounts and drives to connect. Keep anything confidential outside all of that.
On your computer, put it in a folder you haven't pointed Claude to. Claude only works in the folders you give it.
In Google Drive or SharePoint, keep it on a separate drive the AI isn't connected to. Once you connect a Google Drive, the AI can reach every folder you have access to on that drive, and there's no way to guarantee it won't touch a particular folder. The separation has to happen at the drive level.
Plan for two to three hours. It usually takes longer than people expect, which is why we do it together in the week one build session, with written guides and help in Slack all week. Most people hit at least one snag along the way, which is normal.
After that, the cohort Slack runs for all six weeks and every live session has time for questions. If you want closer support, TEMPO Guided includes one-to-one time with me.
The six weeks cover the system on one computer. Running it on two is possible (some people do it) and I can point you in the right direction, but walking you through it is outside the program.
Yes. I offer a single working sprint and a three-week intensive, both shaped around your own work. Here's how they work.
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.