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David Sparks (MacSparky)

The Robot Field Guide now comes with another season (discount inside)

Published 4 days ago • 2 min read

Hi Friend,

I spent the past year building a personal assistant with AI tools. It’s not a chatbot. It’s a system that knows my projects, processes my email, runs my daily planning, files my documents, and handles the repetitive admin I used to lose hours to. I call that stuff the donkey work. The Robot Assistant Field Guide teaches the method so you can build your own version of it. Not a copy of mine. Yours.

The Robot Assistant Field Guide was a big success. Folks who knew nothing about working with AI are now using it to help get grants, deal with their email, build apps, and generally act as an assistant to help them run their lives.

There’s a lot to the course:

  • There’s three and a half hours of initial training videos
  • There’s another thirteen hours of dedicated workshops, digging deeper on how to train your AI robot
  • There’s a growing list of bonus videos
  • There’s the Starter Kit, with a vault template, starter skills, and an assembler that builds your robot around your own work
  • There were 22 sessions of the Robot Builders Club, all recorded, edited, and released in the course.
  • And you get access to the Robot Assistant Field Guide Community, including chat, discussion board, and events.

That’s more than 44 hours of content, and that’s before this new season starts.

And now I’m about to start a new season of the Robot Builders Club. It’ll be another 23 meetups of builders, from novice to advanced, for 23 weeks (through February) meeting once a week to tackle the science (and art) of getting a working AI agent to help you with your donkey work.

Every session is recorded, edited, and released so you won’t miss out on anything.

That takes the whole thing north of seventy hours by the end of February. Most courses are a fixed thing you finish. This one is bigger at Christmas than it is the day you buy it.

And right now you can get $50 off.

The code is ROBOT50 at checkout, and it runs through September 15. That takes the Field Guide, all of it, from $249 to $199. But that’s only for a limited time.

There is a free video on that page if you’re curious.

If you’ve been sitting on the fence on this one, it’s time to get off. People built some amazing stuff with their robots in Season One, I can’t wait to see what happens in Season Two.

Your pal, David

P.S. A few words from people already doing this.

“I’m not a developer. I don’t write code. But the method David teaches made the whole thing feel like following a recipe. My robot assistant was running by the end of the first weekend.” (Nguyen)
“I signed up for and completed another class on AI in our life and work, but just found it still a little too complex. You made the barrier to entry at the perfect point for me.” (Kara)
“With AI, the hard part is that you don’t know what you don’t know. The Robot Builders Club helped me move from thinking about what I could do with AI to building systems that do useful work for me every day.” (Brendan B.)

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