A quick orientation, because a few of you have asked where to begin. SAO Academy now opens with a Start Here course. If you're brand new to AI, agents, or this community, that's lesson one. It walks you through how the classroom is organized, how to use posts and the calendar, how to ask for help in a way that actually gets answered, and what to do in your first ten minutes here. After Start Here, the path is: 1. Start Here - how SAO Academy works 2. AI Foundations - LLMs, agents, RAG, tools, in plain English 3. Your First AI Operator Workflow - one supervised build, end to end 4. The SAO Framework - the operator doctrine, once the basics are in If you joined earlier and felt like the front door was missing, this is the fix. Open Course 1, do Lesson 1.1, then post in the feed with one specific thing you want to build or understand. That post is your fastest path to traction here. - SAO Academy