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Clone Yourself — all four parts, built in order, right here. Your brain, your voice, your fence, your reach. Work down the page and each piece feeds the next — and at the bottom, everything you entered compiles into one Foundation Brief you can hand to any AI assistant. That's the level-up: you're not filling in worksheets. You're writing the instructions a future assistant will follow.

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Brain
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Voice
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Fence
4
Reach
Your Brief
Foundation first. Assistant second. You, always, at the top.
Part 1 · your brain

Feed it what you know

An assistant is only as smart about you as what it has read. Start a notebook — we teach with Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM); any tool that loads your own sources works. These are the first five sources, in order. Check what you have.

The starter sources
How you describe what you doYour bio, your about page, the dinner-party answer.
Your best finished workTwo or three pieces you're proud of. Finished beats recent.
The questions people actually ask youYour real FAQ — from emails, calls, comments.
Your Voice Card + writing samplesYou'll build the card in the next step.
What you're working on right nowThe only source with an expiry date — refresh it quarterly.
The agentic level-upThis isn't note-keeping — it's the knowledge base your assistant will answer from. Curated sources mean grounded answers; a junk drawer means confident nonsense. Choosing what goes in is the first act of managing an assistant.
Members · go deeperPart 1 in the Library

The full Second Brain workshop: the interactive build-along, grounding prompts that make the notebook cite its sources and refuse to guess, and the setup blueprint with a quarterly self-check.

Part 2 · your voice

Teach it to sound like you

Out of the box, AI has none of your writing — so it defaults to the average of everyone. These four fields pull "everyone" off. The litmus for every line it ever drafts: would you say it out loud?

The mini voice card
The agentic level-upYou just wrote a style guide a machine can follow. Fed to your notebook as a source, it stops being a preference and becomes a standing rule — every draft, every time, without re-explaining yourself.
Members · go deeperPart 2 in the Library

The full Voice workshop: the interactive session canvas, the before/after voice bench, five voice-audit prompts that grade drafts against your own published record, and the voice blueprint. (The free Voice Profile Builder tool on this site is the interactive companion.)

Part 3 · your fence

Decide what never goes in

The two-second call before any paste: 🟢 yours and clean — feed it. 🟡 useful but carrying names — redact first. 🔴 passwords, health, client files, other people's details — never, any tool. When it's not obvious, run the gate.

The 4-question gate — try it on something real
The agentic level-upAn assistant with no fence is a liability on a timer. Written down, your fence becomes a permission system: the assistant flags sensitive material instead of swallowing it, and refuses instead of guessing. Guardrails aren't the opposite of autonomy — they're what makes autonomy safe to grant.
The red lineOnce it's pasted, it's pasted. The fix always happens before the button — redact by default, feed on purpose.
Members · go deeperPart 3 in the Library

The full Data-Safety workshop: the feed-it-or-leave-it Sorter, Spot-the-Leak, redaction prompts, a persistent Privacy Guard agent instruction, and the set-it-once Data-Safety Blueprint with tool-tier checks.

Part 4 · your reach

Make it once, shape it everywhere

The payoff. One strong seed, multiplied into every shape your audience actually reads — in your voice, inside your fence, signed by you. Pick where your people are and when you'll run the weekly loop.

Your shape map + ritual
The agentic level-upThis is the assistant's job description: take one approved seed, produce drafts in exactly these shapes, mark everything DRAFT, and stop. The loop runs weekly; the judgment — which seed, what ships — never leaves your desk.
Members · go deeperPart 4 in the Library

The full Reach workshop: Spot the Clone, the One-Seed Multiplier builder, the Sign-Off Gate, five multiplier prompts with a persistent Multiplier agent, the four reach frameworks, and the Reach Blueprint.

The level-up

Your Foundation Brief

Here's the agentic step. Everything you entered above isn't four separate worksheets — together, it's the standing instruction for an assistant: what it knows, how it sounds, what it may touch, and what its job is. Build it, copy it, paste it into any assistant's custom instructions — or into the notebook you started in Part 1.

The compiler
Human-Owned Zone — permanentThe brief delegates drafting, never judgment. The seed is yours, the sign-off is yours, and nothing ships unread. A person always makes the final call.

The foundation is free. The workshops go deeper.

Everything on this page stays free — including the printable cards for each part. The Library adds the full build for every stage: four interactive workshops, the paste-ready prompt packs with persistent agent instructions, the named frameworks, the step-by-step blueprints, and every new session as the series grows.

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