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THE ROBOT ASSISTANT FIELD GUIDE

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Hi Friend,

For the past several months, I've been using Claude and Obsidian to manage my entire working life. Not just asking a chatbot questions. Building a system. A persistent AI assistant that knows my projects, processes my email, runs my daily planning, manages my tasks, and handles the repetitive admin I used to spend hours on every day.

I started with email. Then planning. Then task management. Then customer support, content publication, journaling, and a dozen other workflows. At some point I looked up and realized I'd built something worth teaching.

The Robot Assistant Field Guide teaches you the method I use. You'll learn how to connect Claude's Cowork mode to an Obsidian vault and build your own personal AI assistant from scratch. Not a copy of my system. Yours. Built around your work, your projects, your workflows.

What you get:

10 Foundation Videos (3 hours) that take you from zero to a working robot assistant. Each video builds your system step by step. By Video 10, you have a functioning assistant ready for the workshops.

A 10-Week Live Workshop Series starting April 2. These aren't lectures. They're hands-on working sessions where we build real workflows together. Email processing. Calendar and daily planning. Task management. Personal CRM. Review cadences. Content workflows. All recorded and published to the course if you can't make it live.

A Starter Kit with vault template, sample workflows, and an AI-powered assembler that personalizes everything to your work.

The price: $199 one-time purchase. No subscription. One price, everything included.

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Want to try before you buy? The first foundation video is free at teh course website.

One thing I want to be clear about. This is not "let AI do your work for you." If you're looking for a tool that writes your proposals or does your thinking, this isn't for you. The Robot Assistant Field Guide teaches you to build an assistant for the donkey work. The email triage, the task management, the scheduling, the data entry, the repetitive admin. So you have more time for your creative work. Or a nap. I'm not judging.

You don't need to be a programmer. You need a Mac and a willingness to build something new. The foundation videos walk you through everything, including setting up Obsidian and Claude from scratch.

This is an edge case today. Most people aren't managing their lives with AI and Obsidian. But in a year or two, systems like this are going to be common. The Robot Assistant Field Guide is for people who want the advantage now.

Your pal,
David

P.S. The 10-week workshop series starts April 2. Here's what's coming:

  1. Getting Real (system health check + live morning briefing)
  2. Email Processing
  3. Calendar and Daily Planning
  4. Task Management
  5. The Personal CRM
  6. Review Cadences
  7. Content Workflows
  8. Integrations and Automation
  9. Building Your Own Skills
  10. Spotlight and Q&A

All workshop sessions recorded and available at your own pace.

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