$20 — book and workbook
The team you direct, built deliberately.
Most people use AI as a string of one-off prompts. Every session starts from zero. You paste the same background, explain who the work is for, get something usable, and tomorrow you do it all again. It works, and it feels like onboarding a new temp every single morning, one who forgets everything the moment they leave.
You already know the better way, because you ran operations. You did not re-explain the company to a colleague every day. They held a role. They knew the context and the standard, and you handed them the work and they ran. The Roster is how you build that out of AI instead of headcount: a set of briefed roles, each carrying the context and the quality bar for a recurring kind of work. A researcher who already knows your field. An editor who already knows your voice. You brief each one properly, once, and then you direct a team instead of re-teaching a stranger.
This is staffing, which is a thing you already know how to do. This book shows you how to do it with agents.
Why one generalist prompt produces mediocre work, and what a set of scoped roles produces instead.
The Briefing Document: how to brief a role once, with the context, examples, and constraints that make it reliable.
How the team holds up over time, where it breaks, and how it evolves as your practice does.
Chapter 1: Stop Hiring One Generalist
Chapter 2: The Roles That Matter
Chapter 3: The Roster Build
Chapter 4: Where Your Team Lives
Chapter 5: The Persistent Workspace
Chapter 6: Multi-Agent or Single Agent
Chapter 7: The Briefing Document
Chapter 8: Context, Examples, and Constraints
Chapter 9: Positive Friction in Practice
Chapter 10: Daily Brief
Chapter 11: When the Team Breaks
Chapter 12: The Roster Evolves
The complete book in EPUB and PDF.
The Roster workbook, which walks you through building your first roster of briefed roles, with the briefing documents to run them.
A guide to the full 4Q Drive system, showing how all five books fit together.
$20 — book and workbook
The team you direct, built deliberately.
Most people use AI as a string of one-off prompts. Every session starts from zero. You paste the same background, explain who the work is for, get something usable, and tomorrow you do it all again. It works, and it feels like onboarding a new temp every single morning, one who forgets everything the moment they leave.
You already know the better way, because you ran operations. You did not re-explain the company to a colleague every day. They held a role. They knew the context and the standard, and you handed them the work and they ran. The Roster is how you build that out of AI instead of headcount: a set of briefed roles, each carrying the context and the quality bar for a recurring kind of work. A researcher who already knows your field. An editor who already knows your voice. You brief each one properly, once, and then you direct a team instead of re-teaching a stranger.
This is staffing, which is a thing you already know how to do. This book shows you how to do it with agents.
Why one generalist prompt produces mediocre work, and what a set of scoped roles produces instead.
The Briefing Document: how to brief a role once, with the context, examples, and constraints that make it reliable.
How the team holds up over time, where it breaks, and how it evolves as your practice does.
Chapter 1: Stop Hiring One Generalist
Chapter 2: The Roles That Matter
Chapter 3: The Roster Build
Chapter 4: Where Your Team Lives
Chapter 5: The Persistent Workspace
Chapter 6: Multi-Agent or Single Agent
Chapter 7: The Briefing Document
Chapter 8: Context, Examples, and Constraints
Chapter 9: Positive Friction in Practice
Chapter 10: Daily Brief
Chapter 11: When the Team Breaks
Chapter 12: The Roster Evolves
The complete book in EPUB and PDF.
The Roster workbook, which walks you through building your first roster of briefed roles, with the briefing documents to run them.
A guide to the full 4Q Drive system, showing how all five books fit together.
