Become Irreplaceable

EMMA Mastery — Group Cohort

While everyone is busy getting AI agents to automate their tasks, with EMMA, you are the real agent — the one who directs and decides. EMMA Mastery transforms you into the architect of your own AI operating system, where your experience, your judgment, and your vision are what make the whole thing powerful. Not a tool you learn. A practice you master.

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You're Using AI. But Something's Missing.

You keep hearing that AI is about to change everything. Entire industries disrupted. Millions of jobs reshaped. A revolution in how people think, create, and work. It sounds massive — but when you sit down with the tools, the gap between the promise and your actual experience is hard to explain. AI helps. It's useful. But nothing about the way you're using it feels like the transformation everyone keeps talking about.

You ask it something, you get a good answer, you move on. You come back the next day and do it again. It remembers you a little. It gets better over time. And that's genuinely useful — but that's also all it is. A powerful vending machine you keep visiting. You go to the AI, get what you need, then go back to your documents, your spreadsheets, your inbox, your actual work. Nothing about the way you work has changed. Just one of the tools got smarter.

Or maybe you've gone further. You've set up specialized contexts — projects, custom instructions, uploaded documents. The AI knows your domain now. The answers are sharper, more relevant, more useful. But maintaining all of that is a chore — uploading files, keeping things current, rebuilding context when it falls behind. And every specialized environment you've built is its own island. Your financial project doesn't know about your creative work. Your research context doesn't know about your clients. Each one is a separate place you visit, then leave — and when you zoom out, AI is just one more stop in the same workflow you've always had. You go from the document to the spreadsheet to the AI to the email, stitching it all together yourself, every time.

But the deepest problem isn't any of this. It's that you have no frame of reference for what's actually possible. You can't picture a way of working where your context is alive — maintained, connected, shared across everything you do. Where the AI doesn't just answer questions but works from your actual situation, across every domain, building on everything that came before. You can sense there's more. You just can't see it from where you're standing.

Not because you're not trying. Because nobody's shown you it's possible.

Imagine Your Mind Has a Home

Imagine your mind has a home. A place you designed — with everything you know, everything you're working on, and everything you care about, organized the way you think. Not a folder system you forget about. A living space you inhabit. When you need something, you know where it is. When something's missing, you feel it. And you're not alone in there — you have a team of specialists, each one an expert in a different part of your life, all working from the same understanding of who you are and what you're building.

You sit down to work on a project you haven't touched in two weeks. Instead of spending the first hour remembering where you left off, your system already knows — last decisions made, open questions, relevant research, current status. You pick up exactly where you stopped. No re-reading old notes. No digging through folders. The context was there waiting for you.

An idea hits you while you're away from your desk. You jot it down in a few words. When you sit down later, it's already connected to the project it belongs to, tagged, in context. You didn't have to file it, search for it, or explain what it meant. Your system knows your work well enough to put it where it matters.

You're facing a complex decision — one that touches your finances, your schedule, your family, your long-term plans. No single advisor has the full picture. But your system does. It crosses information from every domain of your life and gives you an analysis that no external professional could, because no one else knows your complete situation the way your extended mind does.

This isn't science fiction. It's not even new technology. It's a method — a way of building and operating an AI system where everything connects, everything persists, and everything gets better the more you use it.

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Four Core Frameworks

EMMA isn't a prompt library. It isn't a collection of templates. It's a methodology built on original frameworks you won't find anywhere else.

Living Context Architecture

Your AI doesn't start from a blank slate — it works from a living, organized body of knowledge that you built and maintain. Your files, your decisions, your projects, your history — all structured, all current, all available to every part of your system at once. This is what makes the difference between generic AI output and results that actually fit your life.

The CEO Perspective

You sit at the center. Around you, specialized AI capabilities — each one expert in a different domain — share the same understanding of your work. Call on one, and it arrives with full context. Call on another, and it builds on what the first already contributed. You don't move information between silos. You direct a team from one seat.

Active Curated Context Management

The discipline that makes everything else work. You don't dump information into a system and hope it remembers. You actively curate what your extended mind knows — what stays, what gets updated, what connects to what. This is what turns a static tool into something that gets sharper with every use.

The Five Loops

Most systems decay. EMMA is designed to grow. Five concurrent cycles — Design, Usage, Optimization, Enrichment, and Cross-Pollination — keep your system alive and evolving long after the course ends. You don't build it once and maintain it. You build it once and it compounds.

Every framework rests on one principle: You Are the Real Agent. The technology works for you — not the other way around. You direct, you decide, you design. EMMA gives you the architecture to do it at a level that wasn't possible before.

Six Sessions. Complete Transformation.

Six live sessions. Each one builds on the last. You start by discovering what AI can actually do when you push it. You end directing a complete cognitive architecture across every domain of your life.

Session 1

Go Deep with AI

You've watched the pre-course videos. You know what LLMs are, how prompting works, what hallucinations look like. Now forget everything you think you know about "using AI."

This session takes you from casual user to professional-level operator. You'll connect external tools, generate research that feeds directly into your project context, use AI to improve your own prompts, create artifacts that become part of your working knowledge base — all integrated, all on a real case with real documents. By the end, you'll have a working system you can use tomorrow AND a clear picture of what Claude can actually do when you push it. You'll also develop the judgment to know when AI output is trustworthy and when it isn't — a skill most users never build.

You leave thinking: "I had no idea this was possible." And with the frustration of hitting the walls that Session 2 tears down.

After this session you can: Work with AI at a level most professionals don't know exists. Manage complex projects with multiple documents, generate and integrate research, iterate prompts systematically, and evaluate output critically.
Session 2

The Paradigm Shift

Everything you did in Session 1 was inside Claude's walls. Your files were trapped. Updates meant re-uploading. Context disappeared between conversations. You felt it.

This session breaks through that wall. You migrate your project to a living system where your files stay on your computer, edits propagate instantly, and your context persists. Then you go further — instead of one general assistant, your system gains specialized capabilities that share the same understanding of your work. Different strengths, same context, your control.

This isn't a feature upgrade. It's a fundamentally different way of working. You stop being someone who uses AI and become someone who has an AI-powered cognitive system. Your files. Your structure. Your extended mind.

After this session you can: Build and operate a living context system where AI works from your own files, updates happen in real time, and specialized capabilities work together without losing shared context.
Session 3

Learn to Design

You've built things. Now you learn to design them intentionally.

Two breakthroughs. First: your tools can get better because you USE them. What you built in previous sessions generated real feedback — and now you learn to turn that feedback into systematic improvements, in conversation with your own system. The tools evolve through use, not through starting over.

Second: you design a cognitive tool from scratch. Not from a template — from genuine research into a domain you care about. You learn to use EMMA's modular architecture to build something that adapts to your specific needs, grounded in real knowledge rather than generic assumptions. This is where you shift from following instructions to making design choices about your own cognitive architecture.

After this session you can: Improve any system through real-world feedback. Design cognitive tools from research using modular architecture. Make deliberate choices about what your tools include, what they leave out, and why.
Session 4

Build Around Your Life

This is where your system stops being exercises and starts being yours.

You learn to design tools that understand context before proposing solutions — systems that ask the right questions first, then build from the answers. This is a design skill you'll use far beyond the course: the ability to create AI capabilities that adapt to any individual situation rather than applying generic templates.

You also learn how to thrive with the volume of information you're now capable of generating — instead of drowning in it. The key isn't processing power (any tool can summarize). It's that EMMA integrates the knowledge you curate directly into your living context, where it compounds with everything you've already built. What you choose to keep becomes immediately available across your entire system — not filed away, not sitting in a separate app. Part of your extended mind.

You leave with a starting draft of YOUR cognitive architecture — the basis for the actual blueprint you'll continue building. Not a finished product, but the foundation: your priorities identified, your gaps mapped, your first real design decisions about what YOUR extended mind needs to look like.

After this session you can: Design tools that adapt to individual needs through structured diagnosis. Curate and integrate research directly into living context that compounds over time. Begin mapping your own cognitive architecture around your actual life.
Session 5

Orchestrate

You have multiple specialized tools. Now they become one system.

You build strategic capabilities — structured approaches to real decisions you're actually facing. A creative partner that takes vague ideas through research to concrete plans. But the bigger skill is integration: making everything work together. Calling on one capability's knowledge while working in another. Creating shortcuts that invoke what you need instantly. Designing sequences where the output of one step feeds the next.

You stop building individual tools and start directing a system. The human in the middle — deciding what to cross-reference, when to bring in another perspective, how to chain capabilities for complex problems.

After this session you can: Orchestrate multiple specialized capabilities as one integrated system. Design sequences that chain different tools together. Cross-reference knowledge across domains. Direct your extended mind instead of operating individual pieces.
Session 6

Evolve

Step back. Look at what you built. A complete cognitive architecture across every layer of your life — operational, cognitive, strategic, creative. Now the question: how does it keep growing after the course ends?

You learn to orchestrate at the highest level — chaining capabilities in sequence for complex problems that no single tool could handle. You get the name for what you've been practicing all along: Active Curated Context Management, the art of inhabiting your extended mind. And the Five Loops — Design, Usage, Optimization, Enrichment, Cross-Pollination — the framework that keeps your system alive and growing, all running simultaneously, forever.

The course ends. The practice never does. You leave not with a finished product but with a living system and the skills to evolve it for the rest of your life.

After this session you can: Design and execute multi-step sequences across your entire system. Maintain and evolve your cognitive architecture independently. Think and operate as the director of your extended mind — directing, not doing.
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Everything You Need

EMMA MCP

The custom software that connects Claude to your Obsidian vault. This is what makes everything live — your AI reads your actual files, routes your notes, and works from your real context. Not available separately.

Pre-Configured Vault

An Obsidian vault with the folder structure, plugins, and system files EMMA needs to work. Open it and you're ready to build — inbox, memory, specialists, projects, everything already in place.

Video Library (6-8 hours)

47+ videos covering everything before you arrive to each live session: EMMA philosophy, Claude mastery, Obsidian setup, MCP installation, AI fluency, context engineering, component creation, and advanced integration patterns. Watch at your pace, arrive ready to go deep.

Specialists You Build

You don't get templates. You learn to design AI specialists from scratch — through collaborative, iterative processes you'll repeat for the rest of your life. In live sessions, you build specialists that help you think more clearly, decide more wisely, learn more deeply, manage your health, organize your life, and bring ideas to reality. Between sessions, you build your own — for whatever domain matters most to you. You can build anything.

1-on-1 Session

A personal session with the instructor to review the system you've been building on your own — the specialists, the structure, the choices you made for your life. Your system is unique. This is where it gets calibrated.

Starter Prompt Examples

A curated set of prompts to get you working immediately — voice input, research workflows, evaluation frameworks. Starting points, not crutches. The course teaches you to build your own.

Cohort Community

Fellow students building their Extended Minds alongside you. Peer learning, shared discoveries, and a network that understands what you're building.

Session Recordings

Every live session recorded. Revisit techniques, catch what you missed, reference as you build.

Async Support

Between-session help for when you hit a wall. Technical blockers, design questions, setup issues — you're not alone between sessions.

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Everything you need to build your Extended Mind.

How It Works

Six live sessions over six weeks — one per week. Before every session, you watch the videos and work through the vault materials at your own pace. Fundamentals covered, so live time goes deep: design, building, feedback, advanced techniques. Week seven: personal 1-on-1 to review your system, plus a group AMA to close.

Time Commitment

Live sessions: ~12 hours total. Pre-session videos and materials: ~5-8 hours at your own pace. Between-session building: 3-5 hours per week. AMA + 1-on-1: 3 hours. Total over 7 weeks: roughly 40-50 hours — and every hour produces something you'll keep using.

What You Need

A computer — Mac or Windows. Desktop only for now. A Claude Pro subscription (~$20/month). Obsidian (free). And willingness to learn — there is a learning curve, and we don't pretend otherwise.

Who This Is For

You already use AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, whatever — and you're getting value from it, but you know there's more. You're a professional, entrepreneur, researcher, creative, or anyone whose work involves thinking, deciding, and creating. You don't need to be technical. You need to be willing to build something.

Who This Is NOT For

If you want AI to run things for you while you step away, this isn't that. EMMA puts you at the center — it requires your judgment, your curation, your decisions. If you're looking for a prompt library you can copy-paste without understanding, or an automation that replaces your involvement, this program will frustrate you. If you only work from your phone, we can't support you yet — EMMA requires a desktop environment. And if you're not willing to invest 3-5 hours a week between sessions actually building your system, the course won't deliver what it promises.

Three Guarantees

Built From Practice

EMMA wasn't designed in a classroom. It was built by someone running multiple businesses, managing creative projects, making financial decisions, and coordinating teams — all through the same system you'll learn to build. Every technique in this course was tested on real work with real consequences.

Everything Stays With You

Your entire system lives on your computer. Plain text files you can read, edit, move, and back up. No subscription lock-in. No proprietary platform. If you cancel every service tomorrow, your Extended Mind comes with you. You own it — completely.

Application Required

This isn't a course you buy with a click. You apply because fit matters — for you and for the group. Small cohorts, hands-on format, real building. If it's not right for you, we'd rather tell you now.

Who's Teaching This

I built EMMA because I was drowning. Too many projects, too much information, too many decisions. AI helped — but scattered, fragmented, starting over every time. I needed something better. So I built it.

But the problem isn't new. I've spent my career designing systems for getting complex things done. I co-founded the team behind Kerbal Space Program — one of the top 100 PC games of all time — and grew it to over 75 people across multiple countries. Before that, I built a marketing agency from two founders to over 60 employees. In both cases, my job was the same: design the processes, organize the teams, make sure everything connects, and keep the big picture clear while dozens of people execute.

EMMA is what happens when you apply that same thinking to AI. Not managing a team of people — directing a team of specialized AI systems, all working from your context, all building on each other. The methodology is new. The discipline behind it is 20 years of practice.

Now I run a school, software projects, financial analysis, creative writing, and research — all through the same Extended Mind system you'll learn to build. Not as a demonstration. As my actual operating system, every day.

The Transformation

The Builder

You don't wait for the next app, the next update, or the next course. You need a specialist for a new domain? You build it. A workflow for a complex process? You design it. Your system needs to grow? You know how. Self-sufficient — permanently.

The Director

You stop doing everything yourself. You direct — calling on specialized capabilities, each one working from your full context, each one building on what the others already know. You don't stitch things together manually. You orchestrate.

The Extended Mind

Your system becomes invisible. Not because it's automatic — because it's natural. The way you think, decide, and create has changed. You don't "use AI." You think with it. Your knowledge compounds. Your context lives. Your mind extends beyond what any one brain could hold alone.

EMMA Across Your Life

You run a business

Say "prepare the meeting for client X" and it's done — because your system already has the context: past conversations, deliverables, open items, next steps. You design workflows once for the processes you repeat: client onboarding, project delivery, financial reviews. Not automations that run without you. Living workflows that know what you know and surface what comes next. Complex research across multiple domains, client-ready deliverables, strategic analysis — what used to take hours of gathering and re-explaining now takes a conversation.

You work with clients

Every client has their own context in your system — history, preferences, agreements, ongoing work. When you switch between clients, you don't re-load your brain. Your system carries it. Preparing a deliverable, following up on a commitment, reviewing where things stand — the information is already there, organized, current. You show up prepared without the prep.

You're writing a book or a script

Your research lives in your vault — organized, searchable, connected. Your writing specialist knows your voice, your structure, your argument so far. Every session picks up where the last one left off. You don't lose the thread. The book grows with you.

You juggle multiple creative projects

A film, a business plan, a personal essay — each one has its own specialist, its own context, its own history. But they all live in the same system. An insight from one project surfaces in another. Nothing is siloed. Nothing is lost.

You're a professional who thinks for a living

Consultant, researcher, strategist, designer — the pattern is the same. Your knowledge compounds instead of resetting. Your analysis builds on everything you've done before. You stop starting from scratch and start building from depth.

Why This Matters Now

Right now, you're using AI the way most people use it — and getting results most people get. That's fine. But there's a level of AI fluency that changes what's possible entirely. People operating at that level aren't just faster — they think with AI, build with it, direct it across every part of their work. They're not using a better tool. They're working a different way.

That gap widens every day. Not because they're learning more prompts — because their systems are compounding. Every hour they invest builds on the last. Every project enriches the next. Meanwhile, everyone else starts from scratch, every time.

EMMA Mastery doesn't just teach you a system. It teaches you how AI actually works at a level where you can integrate anything that comes next — new models, new tools, new capabilities — into a foundation you already understand. That's not something you pick up from tutorials or Twitter threads. It's a skill. And once you have it, you stop chasing the next thing and start building from depth.

Common Questions

Technical

Do I need to know how to code? +

No. EMMA uses plain language — you talk to your system, you don't program it. You'll learn to write structured instructions and design components, but it's closer to writing a clear brief than writing software. If you can organize a project or write an email, you can build an EMMA system.

What software do I need? +

A Mac or Windows computer (desktop only — no mobile support yet), a Claude Pro subscription (~$20/month), and Obsidian (free). Pre-session materials walk you through everything. You'll have it all running before the first live session.

What is MCP? Do I need to understand it technically? +

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is what connects Claude to your files. You don't need to understand how it works technically — just how to use it. Think of it like Wi-Fi: you don't need to know the protocol to connect. The course includes installation instructions; you'll be set up before we start.

What if I already use Notion / Obsidian / another PKM system? +

EMMA uses Obsidian as its foundation, but it's not a note-taking method — it's a cognitive operating system. If you already use Obsidian, you'll have a head start on the interface. If you use something else, you can keep it — but EMMA lives in Obsidian because that's where the AI integration works. Some students run both during the transition.

Practical

How much time does this actually take per week? +

Plan for 5-8 hours: watching pre-session videos and materials at your own pace, plus 3-5 hours building your system between sessions. The live sessions are ~2 hours each. Total over 7 weeks: roughly 40-50 hours. Every hour produces something you keep using after the course ends.

What if I miss a live session? +

All sessions are recorded and available within 24 hours. You can catch up on your own schedule. That said, the live sessions are where the real building happens — design feedback, real-time iteration, group problem-solving. Recording gets you the content; attending gets you the experience.

Is this only useful for people with complex work? +

EMMA scales to your life. Some students build systems for a single business. Others span five domains. The methodology is the same — you decide the scope. If your work involves thinking, deciding, and creating in any capacity, EMMA applies. The more complex your situation, the more dramatic the difference — but the foundation works at any scale.

Philosophical

How is this different from just getting better at ChatGPT? +

ChatGPT (or Claude, or any LLM) is a capability. EMMA is a methodology for directing that capability across your entire life, with persistent context, specialized components, and compounding knowledge. Getting better at prompting makes individual conversations better. EMMA makes everything connect. It's the difference between having a skilled assistant you brief from scratch every morning and having a team that already knows your work.

Will this still work when AI changes? +

That's one of the core design principles. EMMA doesn't depend on a specific model or a specific feature — it's built on architecture patterns that work with any LLM. When new capabilities arrive, you integrate them into a foundation you already understand. Students who take this course won't need another AI course. They'll have the skill to adapt to whatever comes next.

What do you mean by "Extended Mind"? +

Your mind doesn't stop at your skull. The notes you keep, the tools you use, the systems you build — they're part of how you think. EMMA takes that idea seriously and builds infrastructure for it: your knowledge, organized and available to AI, so it can work from your actual context instead of generic training data. It's your mind, extended — not replaced.

Investment

Why does this cost $1,200? +

Because what you're learning doesn't exist anywhere else. EMMA Mastery teaches you a way of working with AI that transforms your professional capacity — not a collection of tips, not a prompt library, not a tool tutorial. You'll learn to design cognitive systems, build AI specialists, and direct an integrated architecture across every domain of your life. That's a skill you carry permanently. The course includes custom software, a pre-configured vault, 47+ videos, 6 live building sessions, and a personal 1-on-1 — but those are how the knowledge gets delivered. What you're paying for is the methodology itself, and the ability to integrate any AI development that comes next into a foundation you already understand.

Is there an accessibility rate? +

A limited number of spots per cohort are reserved at a reduced rate for nonprofit professionals. Availability is evaluated on a case-by-case basis during the application process. If cost is a barrier but the program is a strong fit, mention it in your application and we'll see what's possible.

EMMA Mastery — Group Cohort

$1,200 USD

Small cohort. Application required.

Scholarship rate available for nonprofit professionals (limited spots). Details during application.