I've just cut v2.5.1 of ThirdBrain, the Obsidian-based business AI OS I've been building. Two very different asks, and you can take either or both. 🖥️Ask 1: the fresh install v2.5.1 is a release candidate. The gate I can't close alone is the first run on a machine that isn't mine — Windows/WSL, macOS, Linux. Unzip it somewhere clean, open it in Obsidian, point your agent at it, and try to get to your first useful output. That's the whole test. Tell me where you got stuck, confused, or bored. "I didn't know what to click" is a bug report I want. Low commitment — an hour, maybe less. ♾️Ask 2: the self-improving company (looping) - continuously improve on your KPIs (beta) This is the one that needs real testing, and real time. The vault runs a continuous loop over your business — measure → diagnose → act → verify — across your value chains: win and get paid, deliver and keep happy, know your numbers, buy smart, hire and grow. The idea is a company that gets a little better each cycle without you having to remember to make it. Some numbers compute themselves from what's already in the vault (deals, invoices, clients, tasks). Others you type in, because no system can read your bank balance by wishing. Those get flagged stale after three weeks so the dashboard can't quietly lie to you. It's in beta and I don't want to ship it on my own judgment. I need people willing to run it against a real business over several cycles and tell me: - Are these the numbers you'd actually make decisions on, or just the ones that were easy to compute? - Does the diagnose step tell you anything you didn't already know? - Where does it ask for data you don't have? - Does anything actually improve, or does it just describe? Higher commitment — a few weeks of real use. Worth it if you want a say in how it turns out. 💾 What you get: - The full package, not a trimmed demo — one download, one install. Plus every update released during the beta, so you're never testing a stale copy. - The download lives in the skool community and I'll grant you access directly, so I know who's testing what. - Feedback goes in the thread rather than my DMs — you'll learn as much from what other testers hit as from your own run.

Here in Belgium, we are halfway through the summer holidays. This skool community started about 2 months ago, creating the classroom downloads for installation and making more tutorials and reference material available. I am preparing for a new cut of the system this weekend, and plan on doing a kind of office hours weekly meeting for anyone to join, and just hands-on Q&A. So the question is, when would be the best day for this. Weekday or Weekend, and then which time. I think we have people from australia, europe, asia and canada and us (est and pst) timezones. So to start of, if you could reply with your preference(s), we can find the best day and time.

If you already use AI every day but it lives in scattered chats that don't connect to your actual business, you're in the right place. That's the exact problem BOB exists to fix. BOB (Business Operating Brain) gives your AI a structured set of folders to work inside for your business — your context, your workflows, your files — instead of a blank chat box. The goal isn't better chat. It's finished work. Do these three things to get started: 1. Read "What Is BOB? The Complete Picture" in the Classroom. It's free and explains the whole system in one place.👉 https://www.skool.com/thirdbrain-tech-3102/classroom/27f45bf5 2. Download the ONE free pack that matches your biggest need right now — Business, Marketing, Sales, Media, or Enterprise — and run a single skill on a real task. Don't try to learn all of it. Just get one win. 3. Confess your blank-box ceremony 👇 When you're ready to compound, the paid Starter Vault links everything together: research feeds proposals, context survives across sessions, and your outputs start sounding like you. Bring your AI tool. We'll bring the workflows. — Carine

Release v2.4.0 of the starter vault is updated. What's new/different 1. KPI loop v2 + the scoreboard — new KPI.base (RAG scoreboard with live values + trend sparklines) and the whole KPI-note machinery. 2. ~15 new Bases (data views) — KPI.base, and a finance/ops set: Fixed-Assets, Leases, ECL-Assessments, Period-Closes, Provisions, Performance-Obligations, Gratuity-Provisions, WPS-Records, References, Audit-Processes, Operational-Audit, Processes, Content-Calendar, courseware-tracking, plus pomodoro-stats. 3. BOB Workspace coverage expansion — new nav groups (Marketing / HR & People / Research & Knowledge), Finance "Assets & Close", Audit wired, explicit base wiring (the plugin config + entities changed). 4. Datamodel refinements (60 schema files) — new entities behind those Bases (fixed-asset, lease, ECL, period-close, provisions, performance-obligation, gratuity, WPS, references, audit-processes), kpi_category: product, meeting company_id/company_type, conditional client_id, period-close reconciliation. 5. Skill content upgrades (227 skill files) — same 167 skills, but many rewritten/deepened. The most visible changeis in the BOB workspace with tighter base integration, widgets and help system built-in.

There's a new guide in the Classroom. It's the build-it-yourself version of BOB: 12 prompts that walk you through the actual architecture — audit what you already have, give it a data model, write the operating instructions, package a skill, chain a playbook, and wire it together. The same structure ThirdBrain BOB runs on, done by hand. Free to download, work through it at your own pace. Fair warning: building it by hand is the long way round — which is rather the point. Once you've felt how the pieces fit, you'll understand exactly what the Starter Vault is doing when it stands the whole thing up in about 30 minutes. But the guide stands on its own, and you'll learn more building it yourself. Grab it: Classroom → Build Your Own AI Operating System (v1.0). https://www.skool.com/thirdbrain-tech-3102/classroom/82cf0c4f?md=5b213bb3f93e43b384e292ef1e875f21