Build Your Own AI Team
Lesson 2

Your command center

What you walk away with
The page open on your own machine, your name on it, one task of yours in it, and a bookmark so you can find it again on Monday.
Time
About twenty minutes.
Cost
Nothing. No account, no login, nothing to sign up for.

Some of you have had this open for weeks and some of you downloaded it, looked at the zip file, and decided to deal with it later. Both are completely normal, and this lesson is written for the second group, so if you are already set up you can skim to Part 4 and check the sidebar map against your screen.

The page is the room your agents report into. It comes first, before anything technical, because agents that produce beautiful work into a place nobody opens are an elaborate way to end up with nothing. Building the agents and finding them a home afterward is how people end up with three of them running perfectly and no idea what any of them said this week.

What this thing is

A single page that runs on your own computer, and every part of that sentence is buying you something.

It is one file. You double-click it and it opens in whatever browser you already use, and nothing installs anywhere.

You do not sign up for anything. No account, which means no password to lose and no welcome email to ignore.

It works with the wifi off. On a plane, in a room with concrete walls and one bar of signal, in the parking lot between clients.

Everything you type stays on your own machine. It saves into your browser, on your computer. It never gets uploaded and nobody else can see it. The flip side of that deserves saying out loud now rather than being discovered in week three, which is that opening it on a different computer gets you a blank one. Use the machine you work on most days.

Later in the course, your agents write into this page. Today it is a task list and a projects view, and that on its own is worth the twenty minutes.

1Open it

The file arrived as a zip, which is a folder that has been squashed down for sending. Nothing about it is technical, and it takes one action to undo.

  1. Download Your Command Center.zip, or find it in your Downloads folder if you already grabbed it from the welcome post.
  2. On a Mac, double-click it. A folder called Your Command Center appears right beside it and you are done.

On Windows, right-click it, choose Extract All, then click Extract. The same folder appears in the same place.

  1. Open that folder and double-click command-center.html.

It opens in your browser. That is your command center.

There are two other things in the folder, and neither one needs anything from you today. CLAUDE.md is a fill-in-the-blank file about your practice, and it is the whole of lesson 3. notes/ is an empty folder for anything you want to keep near it.

Bookmark the tab now, while you are looking at it. Otherwise Monday morning turns into an archaeological dig through the Downloads folder, which is how something you meant to use ends up unopened.

One rule that prevents most of the questions people ask later, which is same browser, same computer, every time. If you open it in Chrome the first time, keep opening it in Chrome. It saves into the browser it was opened in, so opening it in Safari afterward shows you an empty page. Nothing has been lost. It is sitting in the other browser.

2Put your name on it

Top left of the sidebar, where it says Your Name and Your Practice. Click either one and type straight over it, the way you would edit any document. Press Enter, or click somewhere else, and it saves.

Small thing, thirty seconds, and it stops the page reading like a demo somebody sent you.

3Put something of yours in it

Add a task. In the sidebar there is a box called Quick Add with a field reading Add a task..., a dropdown to pick which project it belongs to, and an Add → button.

Start with whatever you have been carrying around in your head all week. The follow-up you have rewritten four times and still have not sent counts. So do the intake forms you keep meaning to redo, and the no-show policy you have been meaning to write since spring.

Add a project. Click Projects in the sidebar. There is a field reading New project name... with + Add Project underneath. Type, click, and it shows up in the Quick Add dropdown too.

Name them the way you think about your work. The ones that came with the page are a starting point and nothing more, so rename them, or ignore them entirely.

The task itself matters less than what just happened to the page. It has something of yours in it now, which is the whole difference between a tool you use and a tab you close.

4The rest of the sidebar

Worth ninety seconds now so that nothing feels like a mystery later.

Command CenterThe home view. Where things collect.
Morning ReviewDimmed for now. This is where agent output lands, from lesson 9.
CalendarWorks today. Your week, on the page.
ProjectsWorks today. Where you just added one.
The WELLYours already. Your five systems scored, and the one move to make next.
Build StudioEvery tool in the suite, and which ones are already yours once you connect it.
Your AI TeamDimmed for now. It fills in as you build, starting lesson 9.
The WELLthy Practice SystemThe method the whole thing runs on. Read it whenever.
IntegrationsDimmed. Later.

There are three buttons underneath, each of them one click.

If you have not connected Build Studio yet, it takes about two minutes and the five steps are in the getting-started post, folded inside the How do I get my link? toggle in Build Studio itself. Once connected, every tool you own shows YOURS with a link that opens it. Nothing in this course depends on it, so it can wait if you would rather get on.

5The dimmed sections, and why they are dim

Some panels are dimmed with a small lock on them, and they are working previews left visible deliberately. You can see exactly what each one does before you decide whether to switch it on.

They are also the course, drawn out in advance. Morning Review and Your AI Team are dim today because there is nothing to put in them yet. They fill in as you build, starting lesson 9, with your agents doing your jobs.

You do not have to turn a single one of them on to get something out of this page today. Plenty of people run on the task list and the projects view for a month before they touch anything else, and that is a completely legitimate way to use it.

✅ You now have

If something looks wrong

What you seeWhat it meansFix
The zip will not open, or nothing happensOn Windows it occasionally wants the full pathMove the zip to your Desktop first, then right-click and Extract All
Double-clicking the page does nothing, or it opens in a text editorSomething other than your browser is the default for this file typeRight-click the file, Open With, pick your browser
The page opens but looks unstyled, plain textThe file got separated from its folder, or only part of it downloadedDownload the zip again, unzip it again, open it from inside the folder
Everything you added is goneAlmost always a different browser, or a private windowReopen it in the browser you first used, in a normal window
It looks empty on your other computerWorking exactly as built. It saves per machinePick the machine you work on most and stay there

Private and incognito windows throw everything away when you close them. Worth naming out loud, because somebody will do it, lose an afternoon of tasks, and reasonably conclude the page is broken.

If your screen does not match any of this, drop it in the chat and I will answer you there.

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