Build a team of workers who work for you 24/7. In plain English.
No code. No jargon. You say what you want done — an assistant turns
it into a team that does it, and explains it back to you so you can fix anything that's wrong.
you
→English
←English
builder
→
working team
And then run
the office 24 × 7 — that's Stage 2, coming up after this.
The idea
A team of specialists. That never clocks out.
We call it an office. Each worker has one job and a name.
Information comes in through a source, is passed among workers, and results go out
through a sink — a file, an email, a screen.
Already built
This isn't the first office.
Dozens of offices like this are already built and
running. A few real examples:
News & markets
Watches headlines, prices, and social posts, and flags what matters.
Wardrobe assistant
Checks your calendar and the weather, and suggests what to wear.
Bird songs
Listens to backyard audio and identifies the species singing.
Inbox triage
Sorts incoming email so the important ones don't get lost.
Already built
It can already reach a lot.
Weather
Stock prices
News feeds
Email
Calendar
Slack
Web search
and more
If it needs something that's not on this list yet, it can often still reach it —
or we can add it. And once your office is running, you can ask it to explain exactly what
happened, step by step, in plain English — even days later.
The example
Here's a real one, start to finish.
"Once each period my club gets a batch of market data, forecasts, and news,
plus our decisions from last period. Two analysts each read it and recommend
a plan — one value-investing, one chasing emerging opportunities. A manager
weighs both, proposes a plan, checks the taxes and fees with an accountant,
then writes the final plan to a file."
— what someone actually typed in, word for word
Step 1
You just describe it.
claude.ai — OfficeSpeak project
"Once each period my club gets a batch of market data... two analysts
recommend a plan... a manager checks the cost with an accountant... writes the final plan to a file."
assistant is building your team
No special words or technical terms. Just say it the way
you'd tell a person.
Step 2
It builds the team.
Each period lets one batch in. Both analysts read it and recommend a plan;
the manager weighs both, checks the cost with the accountant, and writes the final plan down.
The important part
It tells you what it assumed.
—The two analysts are treated equally, and the manager has the final say.
—The office handles one period fully before starting the next, so the shared portfolio stays consistent.
—The accountant works out the taxes from the proposed plan alone — it does not look at what the club currently holds.
That third one is a real gap. This is exactly what to look for.
Step 3
You correct it. In plain English.
what you type back
"The accountant has to see what we currently hold — otherwise the tax
numbers are guesses. Taxes depend on what we paid for what we own."
No need to say it perfectly, or use the right words.
Just react to what's in front of you.
Step 4
It shows you exactly what changed.
"One new link: before it prices anything, the accountant now looks
up what the club currently holds and what we paid for it, and uses that for the tax math.
Nothing else about the office changes."
The whole idea
Describe. Explain. Correct. Repeat.
You describe
It explains
You correct
You never have to get it perfect up front. It's easier to react to a real team
in front of you than to describe a correct one from nothing.
Later, optional
When it's right, it can actually run.
Once you're happy with the team and its explanation, Stage 2 turns it into a
real, running system — no guessing, nothing hidden: every piece gets checked against real
examples before it's trusted to run on its own. For our investment club, that really produced
numbers: period 1 → buy 8 shares, fee $8.00,
period 2 → buy 16 shares, fee $16.80, and so on — the fee correctly
growing from what the club already held, exactly as you asked.
You don't have to do this part yourself — right now,
that just means sending it to us.
Your turn
Try it yourself.
1
Set up
Create a claude.ai Project and add the OfficeSpeak instructions. About 10 minutes, nothing to install.
2
Describe
Say what you want your office to watch and decide — your own idea, in your own words.
3
Read & correct
Read the explanation and the "Things I assumed" list. Fix anything wrong. Repeat.
You're ready.
Everything in this course is the real, full walkthrough in
README.md — this was just the short, visual version of Stage 1.
There's a Stage 2 microcourse too, if you want to see it actually run.