Zero to Operator. Call 1 of 5. Monday, Nov 2.

Give your AI
a brain.

One folder. Every chat starts briefed.

Jaden Parisi

The course in one line

Five Mondays. You walk out of each one owning a working piece of your own AI setup.

1

Nov 2

Give it a braintoday

2

Nov 9

Talk to it

3

Nov 16

Build with it

4

Nov 23

Teach it your work

5

Nov 30

Let it run

Open this now.

claude-from-zero.pages.dev

Leave the tab open. It'll be ready when we get there.

The problem

Every chat is its first day on the job.

It forgets you every time. Who you are, what you sell, what you told it yesterday. All gone.

SUNDAY

DAY 1

New hire. Knows nothing.

SATURDAY

DAY 1

New hire. Knows nothing.

FRIDAY

DAY 1

New hire. Knows nothing.

THURSDAY

DAY 1

New hire. Knows nothing.

WEDNESDAY

DAY 1

New hire. Knows nothing.

TUESDAY

DAY 1

New hire. Knows nothing.

MONDAY

DAY 1

New hire. Knows nothing.

HELLOMY NAME IS

AI

The fix

Give it a notebook it reads every morning.

Day one, it reads the notebook. Day two, it reads the notebook. Now it never starts cold.

Who you are.

How you work.

What happened.

What's true now.

What it got wrong.

MY BRAIN

It's just a folder: my-brain/

What's in the folder

Four parts. Each one answers a different question.

The handbook

Who you are and how you work.

AGENTS.md + CLAUDE.md

The diary

What happened, one line at a time.

log.md

The scoreboard

What's true right now.

scoreboard.md

The sticky notes

Lessons from its mistakes.

memory/

Plus a drop box for files you want it to read: the inbox inbox/

0:09, Jaden. Four things, one sentence each. Don't go deeper than the sentence; the next two slides do the depth.

"The handbook: who you are, what you sell, how you like things done. The diary: what happened, one line per thing, never erased. The scoreboard: what's true right now, your open jobs, your numbers. The sticky notes: every time it screws up and you correct it, the lesson goes here so it doesn't do it twice."

"And a drop box. Got a contract, a price list, a spreadsheet? Drop it in the inbox and it reads it."

Why four and not one: a single big file goes stale and the AI can't tell what's current. Splitting "what happened" from "what's true now" is the whole reason it stays accurate. Next slide shows that with your bank.

Hands: the file names in grey are the real ones in the kit. They'll see them in thirty minutes.

Diary and scoreboard, in bank terms

Your bank shows
every transaction,
and your balance.

Diary=TransactionsNever erased. Only added to.

Scoreboard=BalanceRewritten as things change.

If they ever disagree, trust the transactions and recount the balance.

Balance

$4,120.00

scoreboard

Transactionsdiary

Client paid invoiceMon, 9:14 am+$2,400.00

Ad spendMon, 11:02 am-$350.00

SoftwareTue, 8:00 am-$49.00

Deposit, new jobTue, 3:40 pm+$1,200.00

FuelWed, 7:51 am-$180.00

MaterialsWed, 1:15 pm-$620.00

Client paid invoiceThu, 10:30 am+$900.00

0:12, Jaden. Let the phone run. "Everybody here has a bank app. Two things on the screen. The list of transactions, and the balance at the top."

"The transactions never get erased. Nobody goes back and edits last Tuesday. They only get added to. That's the diary." Pause. "The balance is different. It gets rewritten every time something happens. That's the scoreboard: what's true right now."

Press once: "And if the two ever disagree, you don't trust the balance. You trust the transactions and you recount. Same with the AI. The diary is the truth. The scoreboard is just the current total."

Why this matters to them: this is how the AI stays honest. It never guesses what's true; it adds up what happened. When the scoreboard looks off, the fix is "recount from the diary," and it can do that itself.

Why bother

Same AI. Day 30, it knows your business better than a new hire would after a month.

Plain chat resets to zero every day. The notebook carries forward, so every day adds to the last one.

It's just files

Works with Claude Code, Codex, and whatever comes next.

The handbook is called AGENTS.md so any AI tool can read it. You own the folder. Not the app.

my-brain/

AGENTS.md the handbook
CLAUDE.md points at it
log.md the diary
scoreboard.md the scoreboard
memory/ sticky notes
inbox/ drop box

Claude Code

Codex

Whatever's next

Make it yours

What goes on your scoreboard?

Agency

runs ads for clients

Clients who's active

Ad spend this month

Leads this week

Contractor

roofs, plumbing, paint

Jobs on the go

Quotes waiting

Follow-ups owed

Creator

posts, builds an audience

Posts this week

Sponsors in talks

Ideas on deck

Student

school, side projects

Assignments open

Deadlines next 7 days

Projects in progress

Pick yours. Three lines is enough to start. The AI will ask you for the rest.

Let's build it. Everybody, right now.

Three steps. The AI does the rest.

1
Install Claude Code
Already have it? Skip to 2.
2
Download the folder
One zip from the page you opened. Unzip it anywhere.
3
Paste one line
Open the folder in Claude Code and say Set me up.

It's going to interview you. Notice that. Next week you learn why that's the whole game.

Follow along

claude-from-zero.pages.dev

The tab you opened at the start.

Stuck on anything: copy the error, paste it into the AI, say "fix this." That's step one of being good at this.

0:25. Hands drives from here. Jaden floats the chat. Swap roles on screen: Hands shares the Claude From Zero tab and does every step live, on a clean machine if you can. Say the step, do the step, wait for the room. Thirty minutes is plenty if nobody rushes.

Follow-along script (Hands):

1. "Step one, install. If you already have Claude Code, sit tight. If not: on the page, the first box has a file called START.md. Paste it into claude.ai and say 'set me up.' It hands you one line for your computer. Mac runs it in Terminal, Windows in PowerShell. Close the window, open a new one, type claude --version. See a number, you're in." Give it four minutes. Answer in chat, not on mic.

2. "Step two, download the folder. Big yellow button on the page. One zip. Unzip it, drop it on your desktop, name it whatever you want." Show the unzipped folder on screen. "That's the notebook. Look inside if you want: AGENTS.md, log.md, scoreboard.md, memory, inbox. Same names you saw on the slides."

3. "Step three. Open that folder in Claude Code. Terminal people: go into the folder and type claude. VS Code or desktop people: File, Open Folder, pick it. Then paste your start line from the page, or just type 'Set me up.'" Then stop talking. Let the room watch it start asking questions.

Jaden, the moment it asks its first question: "Stop. Look at what it just did. You said four words and it asked you a question back. It's interviewing you. That's how you work with it from now on. Next Monday is all about why."

When someone's stuck (the only protocol): "Copy the exact error. Paste it into the AI. Say 'fix this, tell me what to click.'" Nine times out of ten that's the fix. If it isn't, Hands takes them in chat; Jaden keeps the room moving. Common ones: "claude not found" is a closed-and-reopened terminal. Windows "not recognized" means they're in Command Prompt, not PowerShell. Login tab never comes back: close it, type /login. Closed the window halfway: open the folder, type claude, say "where were we?"

Don't let anyone type into the files by hand. If it asks them to edit something: "You do the work. Tell me what to click and what to answer."

Tomorrow morning

Day two. Say these three things.

What's on my scoreboard?

Here's what happened yesterday. Update the diary.

What should I do first today?

Ship this week

Your brain set up and briefed. Then post a screenshot of your scoreboard in the community.

Next Monday, Nov 9Talk to it.

Give your AIa brain.

Five Mondays. You walk out of each one owning a working piece of your own AI setup.

Open this now.

Every chat is its first day on the job.

Give it a notebook it reads every morning.

Four parts. Each one answers a different question.

The handbook

The diary

The scoreboard

The sticky notes

Your bank showsevery transaction,and your balance.

Same AI. Day 30, it knows your business better than a new hire would after a month.

Works with Claude Code, Codex, and whatever comes next.

What goes on your scoreboard?

Agency

Contractor

Creator

Student

Three steps. The AI does the rest.

Install Claude Code

Download the folder

Paste one line

Follow along

Day two. Say these three things.

Ship this week

Notes

Give your AI
a brain.

Your bank shows
every transaction,
and your balance.