A pad of scrap paper beside the keyboard has done more for my throughput than most of the tooling I changed this year. The minutes a model spends building are the minutes to spend deciding what happens after it lands. - The next sequence - the two or three work orders after this one, written while this one runs. - Notes on the output - what to keep and what to challenge, marked as you read rather than after. - Designs - page layouts, folder trees, flows. Faster to draw than to describe. The dead time in an agentic session is real. A job runs for a few minutes and there are three things you can do with that window: watch it, interrupt it, or think. Watching teaches you nothing and interrupting usually costs a rerun. Writing by hand does something a second chat window does not. The keyboard pulls you back into the work; paper keeps you above it, which is the seat you are supposed to be in while an agent is running. The reading half matters more than the planning half. Marking what to challenge as an output comes in, rather than reaching the end and reconstructing it, is the difference between a next instruction that corrects course and one that just says carry on. The bit I have not solved is getting any of it back into the system. Everything on that pad is orientation the workspace never sees. One of the synced writing tablets pointed at a folder would close that - handwriting arriving as context on the next prompt, and the notes logged as part of the record of how a build actually went. If anyone here has wired one up, I want to hear how. Genuinely think that is one of the more interesting unbuilt pieces sitting in plain sight...

I have a client in Australia who's looking for someone who understands ICM and can help him work on his software. Obviously he would prefer someone a bit more technical, but he's happy to have some people who are trying to learn as well. It's a pretty large software, but he's created a pretty good automated system and obviously he's using my methods so it's very well organized. Anyone out here looking for a project to take on the practice or learn more? Or is there anyone in the morning to get a little bit more work done at a higher level? He's looking for multiple skill levels.

I never would have thought I’d be doing something like this. Back in February, I was just going about my business working my 9-5 and caring for my wife and daughter. I decided on a whim to start looking more into AI and a few weeks later I ended up here. I am so blessed to have found Jake and this community right at the start of my journey. I skipped all the noise and went straight to drinking from the fire hose of all the great content here. I snuck around for a couple months until the competitions started and then I started building. And posting. And building and posting. And you guys listened, continue to listen and I’m amazed by that. I’m so grateful for all the friends and community members I’ve met here. You all are what keeps me putting coals to the fire. I want to remember this moment 1,2,5 years from now and look back and see where it all started. With all of you. Thank you! We’re just getting started 🚀

Hi everyone! Finally, I feel like I can share what I’ve been building behind the scenes. AND I AM FUCKING PROUD OF THIS ONE! 🔥 What do you think something like this is worth? I’ve built an end-to-end contract automation pipeline that runs 100% inside the Microsoft ecosystem. The best part? There is ZERO AI in this flow. Just pure, deterministic, enterprise-grade automation that works flawlessly every single time—and costs next to nothing to run! ⚙️ How the Flow Works: Drop & Trigger: You drop a .pdf file into a specific SharePoint folder. This instantly triggers a Power Automate flow that extracts the data and generates a draft contract. Interactive Teams Approval: The person who uploaded the file receives an automated notification in Microsoft Teams. Right inside Teams, they can: - View the uploaded source file. - Review the generated draft contract. - Approve or deny the contract. - Edit key values directly (edits apply to the final executed contract). E-Signing (No Third-Party Fees): Once approved, the contract is automatically emailed to the customer with a unique link to review and e-sign. - Customers can sign using a mouse, touch screen, stylus, or by uploading a signature image. - Note: You can plug in Adobe Sign or DocuSign, but why pay per signature during testing when you can build it yourself? 😉 Legally Sound Audit Trail: The system captures and logs full verification parameters: [Signed By], [Signed At], [Signer Email], [Signer IP], [Signer Device], [Signature Method], [Document Hash], [Reference], [Approved By], [Approved At]. Final Delivery & Auto-Cleanup: Once signed, the finalized contract is emailed to both parties. The flow then automatically deletes all temporary input and output files, leaving a clean footprint where only the two emailed contracts exist. 🛡️ Built for Enterprise & Clients Bulletproof Reliability: Built-in safety features prevent duplicate entries, invalid file formats, or missing data fields.

You built an agentic OS. So did the person three seats over. And when you put your architecture next to theirs, the shapes rhyme. Folders for clients. A governing layer up top. Named agents doing scoped work. An orchestrator routing it all. That's not a coincidence and it's not theft. It's convergence. Builders with no access to my internal architecture keep arriving at doctrine I already wrote down. One builder reasons their way to belief over prompting. Another builder names an agent and discovers that's the hook for giving it a soul. And another builds a routing gate to protect the signal. Different vantages, same destination. None of them copied me. They solved the same problem in their own org and ended up in the same place. I used to find that mildly surprising. Not anymore. Because if a stranger reinvents the doctrine without ever seeing it, the doctrine isn't clever positioning I invented. It's just how this actually works. Convergence is the proof that it's true. Which tells me the map was never the moat. If people can rebuild a system from a screenshot of a folder tree, then handing over the clean version costs me nothing and proves the point. So here it is. An outline of the AgencyOS map is attached to this post. Layers, agent roster, sample folder structure, and tool integrations. Take the shape. Start at Layer 1, not Layer 3. The agents are the fun part, so that's where everyone wants to start. The leverage is upstream. The belief layer governs everything the agents produce. Mine didn't come from a build sprint. It started forming in late 2023, with these ideas spoken aloud on a podcast, before any AI was in the picture. Then I spent over a year encoding that conviction into a system. Then I found ICM and ported it over. I'm still refining it. An agent I can spin up in 15 minutes. The belief layer took years because it had to exist before the machine did. Build the workforce on top of nothing and you get a fast machine with no conviction. And the belief layer is the one thing on that map you can't take from me. I can't take yours from you. You can copy the folders. You can copy the agent names. But you cannot copy what I believe into your system. I can go into my AI and ask it "what do I believe?" and it returns my truth. If you load my doctrine and ask the same question, you get what I believe. Not what YOU believe.