Founding cohort · 15 spots
What if your AI remembered everything?
Every conversation. Every decision. Every document. A sovereign digital brain that compounds with every use — and you own it forever.
In 4 weeks, you'll build exactly that. Come with your idea. Leave with a running system.
No dates yet · founding cohort · expressions of interest open
Sound familiar?
You open ChatGPT. Ask a question. Get a decent answer. Close the tab. Next day — start from zero again.
No memory. No context. No compounding. Just an expensive search engine that forgets you exist between sessions.
Meanwhile you're juggling 4 apps for tasks, 3 for content, 2 for email, and a spreadsheet held together with prayers. Every new project starts from scratch. Every AI conversation requires re-explaining your entire life.
You explain the same context to AI every single session
Your knowledge is scattered across 15 different apps
Every new project starts from absolute zero
You're the bottleneck for everything in your business
You know AI could help — but can't connect the dots
Your best ideas die in voice memos you never revisit
The real cost
Every week without a system is a week of compounding you'll never get back.
The people building these systems now aren't just saving time today. They're building an asset that gets more valuable every single day. In 6 months, the gap will be unclosable.
The shift
What if AI actually worked for you?
Imagine opening one interface and asking about any project you're working on. Getting full context instantly. No searching. No re-explaining. No context-switching.
Imagine sending a voice note while walking the dog — and having it automatically captured, transcribed, and woven into your project knowledge. Ready when you sit down to work.
Imagine building a booking system in an afternoon. Then copying that entire infrastructure to a completely different brand in two minutes. Because the brain already knows how it works.
“The thinking just stacks and stacks and stacks on itself. Infrastructure built once. Replicated in minutes.”
4 hours
Full website + booking system + automated emails + payments. Would have taken 2 months.
31 repos
Connected through one brain. Code intelligence across every single project.
10+
Projects running simultaneously. Previously limited to 2–3 before drowning.
The system
A sovereign brain that compounds.
BRAIN
It lives on your machine. Not in some company's cloud. Not locked behind a subscription. Markdown files, git-backed, that any AI can read. Switch providers tomorrow and lose nothing.
It gets smarter every day. Every voice note, every document, every decision feeds back into the system. The more you use it, the more valuable it becomes.
It compounds across projects. Build infrastructure once. Copy it to a new brand in minutes. The brain already knows how everything works.
“It lives in its own digital sphere. A sovereign digital asset that any LLM can interact with. Not your keys, not your coins — not your data, not your systems.”
After seeing the system
“I just imagined right now that actually you're a created version of your AI and it's learned you enough... it could have this call as Billy Lewis speaking to all these things.”
James Macfarlane — Aro Hamar — artisan food startup
“I can see exactly how to apply this to what we're building.”
Cam Watts — Race for Impact
“So much better than ChatGPT just agreeing with me. Loving the practical prompts.”
Claire — Build with Billy community
The cohort
Come with your idea.
Leave with a running system.
4 weeks. 15 people. Everything I figured out in 18 months, compressed and guided, adapted to your project.
Foundation
Claude Code installed, GitHub set up, your brain initialized. First voice note ingested. You're live.
→ You'll have AI remembering things for you by the end of this week.
Knowledge
Populate your brain with real project context. Learn to query across everything. Watch it start connecting dots you didn't see.
→ Ask your brain anything about your project — and get a real answer back.
Systems + Content
MCP server and Telegram bot live: voice → brain → action, end to end. Then ship your first automated output — a post, newsletter or blog, in your voice.
→ Send a voice note from your phone and watch it come back as something shipped.
Launch + Scale
Your workflow running for real, connected to your actual tools. Copy your infrastructure to a second project in minutes. Present your before/after and graduate.
→ A full week of your AI running your operations — proven in your own hands.
Included in every tier
The tools I actually use — bundled in, not upsold:
Founding access from $197. Prices rise next cohort.
2–4 hours/week
Your own exploration time. Not a course with 40 hours of video. Real building.
No tech background needed
If you can type and talk, you can do this. I'll meet you exactly where you are.
Small on purpose
15 people max. I can actually engage with each person. Not a webinar with 500 strangers.
Sovereign by design
Everything lives on your machine. No vendor lock-in. No subscriptions to keep your data.
This is for you if…
+ You have a project or business you want to accelerate
+ You're tired of explaining your context to AI every session
+ You want to own your data — not be locked into any platform
+ You learn best by building alongside others
THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF:
× You want a passive course to watch and never implement
× You're looking for get-rich-quick AI arbitrage
× You're not willing to commit 2–4 hours/week
Who's building this with you
Billy Lewis
10 years freelance storytelling — video, brand, web. Then AI changed everything. Went from “storyteller who uses tools” to “technologist who builds from storytelling principles.”
Now running 10+ projects simultaneously from a regenerative farm in New Zealand. Built the brain system over 18 months of obsessive experimentation. It manages a farm, a charity, multiple brands, a video production pipeline, and this community.
Not a developer by training. Not from Silicon Valley. Not selling you theory from a penthouse. Just someone who figured out how the pieces connect and wants to help others do the same.
31
repos connected
1,300+
brain pages
10+
projects running
52
MCP tools built
Choose your learning path
Three ways in.
Everyone gets the curriculum, the group calls, and the brain reference. Higher tiers add more hands-on support, direct access to me, and personalized builds for your specific project.
Indicative founding pricing — no dates set yet. Register your interest below and I'll be in touch as the first cohort firms up.
Self-Paced
$197 USD
Learn it on your own time
Unlimited · start anytime
- ✓Full course content — lifetime access to recordings
- ✓Delivered after the live cohort wraps
- ✓The Brain Kit ($27) included
- ✓Claude Code Skills Pack ($15) included
- ✓All templates + prompt packs
- ✓Community (read-only)
Community
$497 USD
Build it with the group
10 of 15 founding spots
- ↑Everything in Self-Paced, plus:
- ✓Live 4-week cohort calls (real-time + recordings)
- ✓Private community chat group (ongoing)
- ✓Weekly office hours + Q&A
- ✓Hot-seat reviews + accountability
1:1 with Billy
$897 USD
Build it with me, on your project
Only 5 spots
- ↑Everything in Community, plus:
- ✓2× 60-min private 1:1 calls with Billy
- ✓Direct work on your actual project
- ✓Priority async support
All tiers include lifetime access to course materials. Founding cohort — these prices won't come back.
Register your interest →Questions you might have.
Do I need to be technical?+
No. If you can type and talk, you can do this. Several people in the community have never used a terminal before. I'll walk you through everything — installing tools, understanding concepts, building your first automation. No gatekeeping.
What do I need before starting?+
A laptop (Mac or Windows), a Claude subscription ($20/mo), and a project or idea you want to build. That's the full prerequisites list.
What if I can't make a group call?+
Calls are recorded and shared with the group. You'll also have async support throughout the week. That said — the real magic happens live. Make it a priority if you can.
Is this model-agnostic? Do I have to use Claude?+
The brain you build is completely model-agnostic — markdown files on your machine that any AI can read. We use Claude Code as the primary tool because it's the best right now, but the system itself works with any provider. That's the whole point of sovereignty.
What happens after 4 weeks?+
You keep everything you built — forever. It's on your machine, in your repos. Community access continues for a few months after the cohort wraps, with the option to stay in beyond that.
What if I'm not happy with the cohort?+
If you show up, do the work, and don't feel it was worth it — tell me within the first 2 weeks and I'll refund you. No drama. I'd rather have committed people than uncertain ones.
How much does it cost?+
There are a few ways in, from self-paced through to a hands-on 1:1 partnership. I'm not taking payment yet — no dates are locked. Register your interest and I'll share the full details and founding pricing with you personally as the first cohort firms up.
What makes the founding cohort special?+
You're building this with me — first time through, your feedback shapes the program. Founding members get the most hands-on access I'll ever offer, and founding terms that won't come back for later rounds.
I already use AI daily. Is this still valuable?+
Do you have a sovereign brain that compounds across all your projects? Can you query everything you've ever worked on from one interface? Can you copy infrastructure from one brand to another in 2 minutes? If not, yes — this is the next level beyond daily AI use.
This is the moment.
4 weeks. Come with your idea, leave with a running system. Founding cohort, 15 spots, no dates yet. Register your interest and I'll be in touch personally as the first round firms up.
Expressions of interest open · I read every one myself.
“Previously I felt like I could only take on two or three big things at once at total maximum. Now I don't know what the limit is. It's almost flipped — inverted the whole thing.”
— Me, after 18 months with the brain system
P.S. If you're reading this and feeling the pull but also the doubt — that's normal. Every person in my network who built this system said the same thing before they started: “I don't know if I'm technical enough.” They all were. You are too.