I showed you the engine, the factory, and the space shuttle. You don't need any of that yet. Here's the one thing you do this week, and why it unlocks everything else.
This is Jason, talking directly to you. I owe you this before anything else.
Rich, I showed you Forge, agents, dashboards, swarms, Ralph loops, NowPage, CLIs, and 15 other things. That was me being excited. It was NOT the right way to get you started.
You asked me "where do you send me?" five different times. I gave you architecture when you needed directions. That's on me.
Here's what I should have said at the beginning of our call instead of the end:
Your blocker isn't that AI is hard. Your blocker is you don't know what question to ask. Once you know the question, AI does the rest.
That's it. That's the whole secret. You ask, it answers, you do. When you get stuck, you ask again.
Not ten tools. Not five. One. Claude Desktop with Co-work. Here are the exact steps.
Go to claude.ai in your web browser. Click "Sign Up." Create an account with your email. Pick the $20/month Pro plan.
Cost: $20/month. Less than one lunch at Capital Grille.
Go to claude.ai/download and download the desktop app. Install it like any other program.
Look in the sidebar of Claude Desktop. You'll see a button called Co-work. This is the feature that lets Claude see your files and folders, just like I was showing you during our call.
It can read documents, write documents, organize things, analyze spreadsheets.
Think of it as: Heather, but she never sleeps, never gets confused, and types 10x faster.
Open a new conversation in Claude. Paste this exact prompt. Don't change a word. Just paste it and hit Enter.
Read Claude's response. Follow the steps it gives you. When you get stuck on any step, open a new chat and say:
That's it. That's the whole process.
Five days. Thirty minutes each (except Friday, which is fifteen). By Friday afternoon, you'll have a plan, a validated playbook, and a launch list. All built with AI, by you.
Sign up for Claude Pro. Download Claude Desktop. Open it. Paste the prompt from Step 4 above. Hit Enter.
Open the playbook Jason built: ideas.asapai.net/kindness-playbook
Read it. Then go back to Claude and have a conversation about it. Tell Claude:
Open the validation page: ideas.asapai.net/kindness
Take the exercise yourself. Yes, fill it out as yourself. Then bring your answers to Claude.
Open a blank document or a new Claude conversation. Write 20 first names of people in your network. Next to each name, write one kind act you could do for that person. Then let Claude help you prioritize.
That's it. Call Jason. Tell him what Claude said. Tell him what you agree with. Tell him where you're stuck.
Each step unlocks the next one. You can't skip ahead because each piece feeds the one after it. But the good news is: you only need to think about steps 0 through 2 right now.
You saw all of this during our call. Every single one of these things is Jason's job, not yours. If you find yourself Googling any of these words, stop. That's a wrong turn.
Talk to Claude. Tell it what you want. Do what it says. Call Jason when stuck.
You told me Patricia is skeptical about AI, and you want to show her it can be a force for good. Here's exactly when and what to show her.
Open ideas.asapai.net/kindness on your iPad or laptop and let her look at it.
Open your Claude conversation history. Show her the back-and-forth where you asked about the kindness project and Claude helped you build a plan, refine the playbook, and identify your first 5 people.
Screenshot this. Print it. Tape it to your monitor. This is the whole plan on one card.