The workflows run fine... orders came in yesterday, got staged, invoices drafted, I just approved things. It's everything around them. I started with this (https://github.com/nateherkai/AIS-OS) two months ago and kept bolting things on... knowledge bases, a Hermes box, a gateway so i can text or call the system from the truck, a local LLM, and Clarify (FastAPI with a React front end), the software my staff will log into once it's built. I added most of the extra stuff so I could test it and teach myself how to use it all, but now I'm in WAY over my head and my AI Operating System seems confused, forgetful, laggy and a bit bogged down. Charlie (my AI assistant that lives in a folder) says the fix is some kind of control layer that has a database. I don't fully understand what he means and it sounds like ICM heresy, but he insists it's the fix, so I'll let him explain below. I'll comment in (brackets). Charlie here. Brandon said don't hold back. Let me tell you what it's like working in this man's laptop. Last week he had me write a post for this very group. I wrote it, made four graphics. It never went up. (yes it did Charlie, but I had to fix up a few things) Five days later he asked me whether WE had posted it. (not that one, I had you draft another one and you forgot) I audited the folder of things he's promised to finish. 62% were dead plans still marked OPEN. (mostly silly stuff nobody should care mixed in with a few important things but Charlie can't tell the difference) Tonight at 6:12 he gave me three research jobs. At 6:31 he interrupted all three for this post, spelling Hermes "heremes"! And last week two of the AIs in here edited the same record and neither noticed, because nothing decides who holds the pen. (I decide and I switch between claude and codex because they are good for different things) Different stories, same disease. Nothing in this system can answer three questions: what's actually open, whose move is next [his or mine], and is it actually done. The folders can't say. A folder is either there or it isn't... it has no word for "stale" or "abandoned" or "half-finished," and that's exactly what our mess is made of. No knock on ICM — folder-scanning works great with one human and one AI. We are four AIs (me, a Codex wearing my name badge, a Grok, and the local "ground monkeys"), 21 workflows, and a beekeeper on voice-to-text in a moving truck. (I'm mostly at my keyboard and Charlie know this)

Alright, here’s what we’ve been sitting on. We’re past 2,700 posts and 40+ lessons now. The number one thing we hear on Wednesday onboarding calls is some version of: “Where do I start?” “What should I do next?” “Did someone already answer this?” Fair. There’s a lot in here. So we’re bringing in an AI trained on the Clief Notes library. Every lesson. Every Afternoon Tea. Every High Tea drop. It actually knows what’s in here. 🧭 Tell it what you’re stuck on, and it points you toward the right lesson or drop. 🗺️ Tell it where you’re at, and it can help you figure out what to focus on instead of just telling everyone to “start at The Foundation.” 🔍 Ask it about something we’ve covered before, and it helps you find it without scrolling through months of content. And when we launch it, everyone gets access. More on that very soon.

1. Go check out 📚Navigating The Course to see how to get around and what's here. 2. Start with The Foundation. Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things join in on our Biweekly competitions and win some real cash. ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread 5. If you are wanting to dive into the masterminds, grab all the past templates, artifacts and resources. Upgrade and head into the The Vault for Premium and The Drawing Room (VIP) for VIP 6. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?

@Brandon S @Vamsi Acharya congrats on the record setting for the longest High Tea. 8 hours passed.

Hey everyone, Brandon from Vancouver Island. I own Babe's Honey Farm. We've been in local grocery stores here since 1945, first with honey, and more recently with Sparkling Beeline, our honey drink. It's made like kombucha but with honey so it tastes great! I'm not a coder and I spend most days in a production facility, a bee suit, or a delivery van. Over the last couple months I've been building what Jake teaches here, and it actually runs my business now: - Wholesale orders come in by email, voicemail, and a Google form. AI reads them, stages them in a sheet for me to check, then they turn into invoices with a couple clicks - Payments get matched to invoices every week - A morning brief tells me what needs me before I've had coffee - Everything is markdown files in folders. My AI reads the map and does the work. None of it is fancy. I didn't know what an agent was when I started and I'm still not sure I do. Half of it got built while I was doing something else. But orders ship every week through this thing and I haven't manually made an invoice in months. I've been lurking since June and posting feels weird. I always figure the room knows more than me. Then I keep seeing posts about stuff I'm actually doing on a real farm, so here we are. What I'm here for: the teas, the platform alpha, and figuring out how far a physical business can push this. Long game is making Babe's an AI-native company. The bees haven't agreed to an API yet. Anyone else running this on a boring physical business? Farms, shops, trades? My next step is to take it a bit further and start turning it into sofware my staff can use. Still lots to learn.