Our Programs
One method. Three levels of support.
One path. Start free every Thursday with Live Sessions, then climb — a 90-minute Demystifier, a one-day build, or the 8-week Accelerator — as one person, one team, or a whole organization.
Two audiences. Pick the door that fits you, see the deliverables, and the next dates.
Live, facilitated programs — priced per seat or per cohort below. Looking for self-serve videos and tools? That's the Library membership ($39/month · $249/year · Teams & orgs — contact for details).
Operators, consultants, founders
Local Civic Offer
The Upper Shore Community Rate
As a proud Maryland-based organization, we invest directly in the economic engine of our own backyard. If you're a local main-street business in the Upper Shore, your team attends the Demystifier for free — and you unlock our Nonprofit & Education rates for all advanced org engagements.
To qualify, your business must meet three simple criteria:
Locally Headquartered — registered and headquartered in Cecil, Kent, or Queen Anne's County.
Independently Owned — not a franchise, chain location, or subsidiary of a company headquartered outside the three Upper Shore counties.
Main-Street Sized — operating with fewer than 25 full-time employees.
Eligibility verified against Maryland business registration.
Want to start now? or grab a free public seat.
We're planning a free live session for Upper Shore businesses in late July — add your email and we'll invite you.
Outside the Upper Shore? Reach out — we'll see if we can connect you with a local AI champion in your area.
Live Sessions
Show up live every Thursday and watch us build one small AI system from scratch — with a Human-Owned Zones hand-off at the end. Free, pay what you wish.
Come once to see if it fits. Come every week to keep sharpening. Then climb into a paid program below when you're ready to build for your own work.
The climb — three paid steps that build on each other
Each step picks up where the last one left off. Start where you are.
Find — Find the Friction
Demystifier
Cut through the AI noise. You leave with one clear AI agent to build, the guardrails set, and a 30-day plan.
For individuals — what you walk out with
Your friction map
The tasks eating your week, ranked by pain and effort. The one to fix first is circled.
Starter playbook
Your AI-eligible shortlist — three to seven tasks cleared for AI, with the first one to build circled.
30-day plan
Scope, build, deploy your first agent — solo, step by step.
Stay-in-your-lane scope
First agent works only on what you already control, so wins come fast.
You leave holding your own filled-in HOZ Map + First-Agent Card. The blank canvas and build templates live in the Library, so you can run it again yourself.
Join the LibraryHow it works
First we mark which decisions stay human. Then, inside only the parts AI is cleared to touch, we rank them by how much they cost you and how hard they are to fix — so your first agent is both safe to hand off and worth building first.
Pricing
- Free public seat · open enrollmentFree
- Private session · Nonprofit / Education$1,500
- Private session · Corporate / For-profit$2,500
Government pricing follows the Corporate / For-profit rate — ask about procurement and contract vehicles.
Upcoming dates
Monthly live build
90-min live Demystifier — $49, or free with any membership
Private session
Scheduled to your team's calendar
Monthly live · $49 (free with any membership) · $1,500 nonprofit/education private · $2,500 corporate private · 90 min
Talk to a facilitatorFence — Fence the Risk
Agency in a Day
A six-hour live build. You bring real work, set the boundaries, and walk out with a Researcher, Drafter, and Editor running together — scored against the HOZ™ rubric before you leave.
For individuals — what you walk out with
Your 3-agent Power Team
Two or three personal agents built and tested on a representative task you bring.
Opportunity map
Use cases ranked by effort vs. payoff, side by side.
Your playbook
What each agent does and how to run it again next week.
30-day expansion plan
One success metric per agent, in writing.
Keep the momentum — add 30 days of Library access so your team can re-run every tool without us in the room. Run today's build on your next workflow, on your own, next week.
Add Library accessHow it works
Each agent checks its own work before anything leaves your team, so mistakes get caught early.
Pricing
- Open enrollment · per person$497
Government pricing follows the Corporate / For-profit rate — ask about procurement and contract vehicles.
Upcoming dates
Next cohort: opens monthly
1-day live build, 9a–4p ET
Private cohort
Scheduled to your team's calendar
$497/person · open enrollment · full-day sprint
See a sample agentForge — Forge the System
Accelerator
Eight weeks. Your eight agents stop working in silos and start running like a chief of staff in your voice — a coordinated personal system you keep, plus the hours-back count proving what it gave you.
For individuals — what you walk out with
Your 8-agent portfolio
Archetype, voice, workflows, blueprint — your full personal stack, built piece by piece.
Personal agent ecosystem
Eight agents running like your chief of staff, in your voice, by Week 8.
Time-back tracker
Hours reclaimed, measured weekly against your Week 1 baseline. Target: 5–10 hrs/week.
Alumni peer circle
A small group of graduates you keep meeting with, so the habit sticks after the cohort ends.
Keep the momentum — add 30 days of Library access so your team can re-run every tool without us in the room.
Add Library accessHow it works
We count the hours you get back each week against your Week 1 starting point, so early estimates become real, proven numbers.
Pricing
- Open enrollment · per person$1,997–$2,997
- VIP / Early bird (first 5 seats per cohort)$1,497
Government pricing follows the Corporate / For-profit rate — ask about procurement and contract vehicles.
Upcoming dates
Founding cohort: Fall 2026
8 weeks, 2× weekly live sessions + studio hours
Team cohort
Scheduled with your org
$1,997–$2,997/person · $1,497 VIP first-5 · 8 weeks live + async
Talk to a facilitatorThe free artifact
What you walk out of the Demystifier holding.
A filled-in one-pager on your own workflow — your version of the example below. Two parts: the HOZ Map that sorts the week, and the First-Agent Card that scopes the one you'll build first.
HOZ Map + First-Agent Card
Worked example — Independent consultant, one week of work
Filled in during your session
HOZ Map — sort the week
Never AI
Stays Human
Judgment, relationship, risk
Scope decisions on new engagements
Final client-facing sign-off
Pricing changes & discount calls
Relationship repair after a miss
AI drafts, human approves
AI-Assisted
You keep the final call
Proposal drafting from a discovery call
Pain4Effort3Client email triage & suggested replies
Pain3Effort2Invoicing reminders (drafted, you send)
Pain2Effort2
AI runs, human spot-checks
AI-Owned
Repeatable, low-risk
- Top pick
Meeting notes: transcript → summary + actions
Pain5Effort1 Calendar prep briefs the night before
Pain3Effort2Weekly time-log rollups for invoicing
Pain2Effort1
Pain 1–5 = how much it costs you today. Effort 1–5 = how hard the agent is to build. Top pick = high pain, low effort.
First-Agent Card — the circled pick
Circled item
Meeting-notes agent — transcript → summary + action items
Pain5Effort1Sees
Does
Ships
Stays Human
30-Day Plan
- Week 1 — Set guardrails: which calls, which folder, what never leaves the agent.
- Week 2 — Build: prompt, template, output format, integration with your notes app.
- Week 3 — Test: run on last week's five calls; compare to your own notes.
- Week 4 — Deploy: turn it on for every call; spot-check twice a week.
theCommons Academy · Demystifier session artifact
Want to run this yourself on the next twenty workflows? The blank canvas, the sorting template, and the build templates live in the Library.
Get the templates — join the LibraryNot sure which tier is yours?
Score your friction first. Free, no login, five minutes. The result points you to the tier built for where you actually are.