From 9813eb8071adaaa0723ef9fd2fb7bdbb8c5429fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chase Dumphord Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 10:54:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add Synthos AIOS README --- README.md | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2550b88..2491111 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,118 +1,114 @@ -# AIS-OS — AI Operating System starter kit for Claude Code +# Synthos AIOS — AI Operating System for Business Operators -A free, MIT-licensed starter kit that turns Claude Code into your personal **AI Operating System (AIOS)**. Audience: anyone building automations — solopreneurs, small business operators, managers, creators, AI consultants. Pairs with a companion masterclass video. +A free starter kit that turns Claude Code into your personal **AI Operating System (AIOS)**. Built for business owners, operators, and consultants who are serious about removing manual work from their operations — not just adding another AI tool to the pile. -The kit personalizes itself to you via an `/onboard` interview, then gives you two recurring thinking skills (`/audit`, `/level-up`) to keep building leverage week over week. +This kit wires AI directly into how your business thinks, decides, and runs. It personalizes itself to your business through an `/onboard` session, then gives you two recurring skills (`/audit`, `/level-up`) that keep building leverage week over week. -> **AIS-OS** stands for **AI Automation Society OS** — the way Nate designed this AIOS to be set up for members of his community, [AI Automation Society](https://www.skool.com/ai-automation-society). The kit is universal (it works for anyone), but the structure mirrors how AIS members run their own businesses on top of it. +> **Synthos AIOS** is the operational foundation we install with every client at [Synthos Systems](https://synthossystems.com). We build complete AI-powered systems — not wrappers, not templates, not one-size-fits-all tools. This kit is the starting point. --- -## The litmus test +## The Standard -> **"While you're not at your desk, your AIS-OS observes one real-world event and produces an output that's faster and more accurate than what you'd produce yourself."** +> **"While you're not at your desk, your AIOS observes a real-world event and produces an output that's faster and more accurate than what you'd produce yourself."** -Every design decision in this kit rolls up to that test. If a layer, skill, or template doesn't contribute to it, it doesn't ship. +Every decision in this kit rolls up to that standard. If a layer, skill, or template doesn't contribute to it, it doesn't belong here. --- ## How you'll know it's working -Three felt **success indicators** tell you the AIOS is actually changing how you work. Not KPIs — there's no objective metric. These are lived experiences that show up in your week. +Three things happen when your AIOS is actually running. Not metrics — lived experiences that show up in your week. -**1. Team-reaches-out:** +**1. You stop being the bottleneck:** -> *"A teammate messages you with a question. You realize your AIOS would answer it better, faster, and with exact sources — even if you were awake and free. So you ask your AIOS too. That's the moment you stop being a bottleneck for your own knowledge."* +> *"Someone on your team asks a question. You realize your AIOS would answer it better and faster than you would — even if you were sitting right there. So you ask it too. That's the moment the system starts working for you instead of the other way around."* -**2. Context-switching reduction:** +**2. You stop switching contexts:** -> *"You stop opening new tabs. You stop launching the desktop app. When something new lands, your first move is to ask the AIOS, not to open six things. The default surface for thought work shifts. Silent. Compounding."* +> *"You stop opening six tabs every time something lands in your inbox. Your first move becomes asking the AIOS — not launching another app. The default surface for thinking shifts. Quietly. Permanently."* -**3. Knowledge-leaves-your-head:** +**3. Knowledge leaves your head and lives in the system:** -> *"You stop trying to remember business facts. You don't rehearse what you decided last quarter or what your customer said in that meeting. You trust the retrieval. The AIOS holds the truth, you hold the questions."* +> *"You stop trying to remember what you decided last month or what a client said in that call. You trust the retrieval. The AIOS holds the operational truth. You hold the questions."* -**Personal foundation → company AI-readiness.** Once these indicators show up for one person, the same data architecture powers everything else. Custom dashboards on the data you already collect. Automations on top of the connections you already wired. Team rollout where everyone has theirs. *A company where every operator runs a personal AIOS is a company that's actually AI-ready.* +**One operator → company-wide AI readiness.** Once this works for you personally, the same architecture powers everything else — dashboards built on data you already collect, automations on top of connections already wired, team rollout where every operator runs their own. A business where the whole team runs AIOS is a business that's actually ready for what AI can do. -The kit teaches personal AIOS first. Everything scales from there. +This kit starts with you. Everything scales from there. --- -## Two frameworks +## Two Frameworks -The kit teaches two complementary frameworks. **Three Ms first, Four Cs second.** Without the brain rewire, the architecture is just a folder structure. +The kit is built on two frameworks. **Three Ms first, Four Cs second.** The architecture means nothing without the operator mindset behind it. -### The Three Ms — operator brain (how you think) +### The Three Ms — how operators think about AI -| M | One-liner | +| M | What it means | |---|---| -| **Mindset** | Default Shift, Function Breakdown, Curiosity Rule. *To what extent can AI be leveraged here?* | -| **Method** | Find Constraint → EAD (Eliminate, Automate, Delegate) → Map Process → Pick Autonomy Level → Tie to KPI. | -| **Machine** | Lego Principle, Validation Chain, Bike Method, Intern Rule, Kill Switch. *Boring is beautiful. Workflows beat agents.* | +| **Mindset** | Default Shift, Function Breakdown, Curiosity Rule. Ask first: *To what extent can AI be leveraged here?* | +| **Method** | Find the constraint → EAD (Eliminate, Automate, Delegate) → Map the process → Choose the autonomy level → Tie it to a real outcome. | +| **Machine** | Lego Principle, Validation Chain, Bike Method, Intern Rule, Kill Switch. Boring is powerful. Workflows beat agents every time. | -Full breakdown in `references/3ms-framework.md`. The `/level-up` skill walks you through all three weekly. +Full breakdown lives in `references/3ms-framework.md`. The `/level-up` skill walks you through all three on a weekly cadence. -> *The Three Ms of AI™ is a trademark of Nate Herk. © 2026 Nate Herk.* +### The Four Cs — what you actually build -### The Four Cs — architecture (what you build) - -| # | Layer | One-liner | "This layer is in place" test | +| # | Layer | What it does | How you know it's in place | |---|---|---|---| -| 1 | **Context** | Knows your business | Fresh Claude session answers "what does this business do and who works here?" without browsing | -| 2 | **Connections** | Reaches your stuff | "What's on my calendar tomorrow and what tasks are due?" → live data, no paste | -| 3 | **Capabilities** | Knows how to do the work | A short phrase triggers a multi-step workflow that produces an artifact | -| 4 | **Cadence** | Runs without being asked | Laptop closed. A brief lands in the inbox. A teammate messages it and gets a real answer | +| 1 | **Context** | Knows your business | A fresh session answers "what does this business do and who works here?" without you explaining anything | +| 2 | **Connections** | Reaches your tools and data | "What's on my calendar tomorrow and what tasks are due?" returns live data — no copy/paste | +| 3 | **Capabilities** | Knows how to do the work | A short phrase triggers a multi-step workflow that produces a real deliverable | +| 4 | **Cadence** | Runs without being asked | Laptop closed. An event happens. The system handles it. | -**Brand line:** Context. Connections. Capabilities. Cadence. - -> *The Four Cs of an AIOS™ is a trademark of Nate Herk. © 2026 Nate Herk.* - -Dependency graph: Context is non-skippable. Connections + Capabilities can build in parallel. Cadence is last — don't automate workflows that don't work manually. +**The build order matters.** Context is non-negotiable first. Connections and Capabilities can build in parallel. Cadence is last — never automate a process that doesn't work manually yet. --- -## What ships — 3 skills +## What's Included — 3 Skills -The kit is intentionally lean. Skills here are ideation prompts and thinking tools, not heavy automations. You hack on top of the structure. +The kit is intentionally lean. Skills are thinking tools and structured workflows — not bloated automations. You build on top of the foundation. -| Skill | Type | When to run | +| Skill | Type | When to use it | |---|---|---| -| `/onboard` | Setup wizard (one-time) | Day 1, immediately after clone. 7-question interview. Generates Day-1 file set + fills `CLAUDE.md`. | -| `/audit` | Recurring thinking skill | Day 7, then weekly. Four-Cs gap report. Read-only. Watch the score climb. | -| `/level-up` | Recurring thinking skill | Day 14, then weekly. Three Ms interview (Mindset → Method → Machine). One run = one shipped artifact. | +| `/onboard` | One-time setup | Day 1, right after you clone. 7-question interview. Generates your Day-1 file set and fills `CLAUDE.md` with your business context. | +| `/audit` | Weekly recurring | Day 7, then every week. Runs a Four-Cs gap report. Read-only. Watch the score move. | +| `/level-up` | Weekly recurring | Day 14, then every week. Runs the Three Ms interview — Mindset → Method → Machine. One run ships one artifact. | -`/audit` asks *"is the AIOS built right?"* (form). `/level-up` asks *"what business leverage am I missing?"* (function). They work in series — fix structure first, then capability planning becomes meaningful. +`/audit` asks *"is the AIOS built correctly?"* — that's structure. +`/level-up` asks *"what business leverage am I leaving on the table?"* — that's function. +Run them in order. Fix the structure first. Then capability planning actually means something. --- -## Quick start +## Getting Started -1. **Clone the repo** to a working folder on your machine. -2. **Open it in Claude Code** and run `/onboard`. Answer the 7 questions honestly. Voice samples must be pasted, not described. Takes ~15 minutes. Day-1 file set drops at the end. -3. **Use it for a week.** Bring real questions. Make real decisions. Log them via `/decision` (or just append to `decisions/log.md`). -4. **Day 7:** run `/audit`. Read the Four-Cs gap report. Pick one gap to close. -5. **Day 14:** run `/level-up`. The Three Ms interview surfaces one automation worth building. Build it. -6. **Week 3+:** weekly `/level-up` ritual. One shipped artifact per week. +1. **Clone this repo** to a working folder on your machine. +2. **Open it in Claude Code** and run `/onboard`. Answer the 7 questions honestly — voice samples need to be pasted, not described. Takes about 15 minutes. Your Day-1 file set generates at the end. +3. **Use it for a week.** Bring real questions. Make real decisions. Log them. +4. **Day 7:** Run `/audit`. Read the Four-Cs gap report. Pick one gap and close it. +5. **Day 14:** Run `/level-up`. The Three Ms interview surfaces one automation worth building. Build it. +6. **Week 3 and beyond:** Weekly `/level-up` ritual. One shipped artifact per week. --- -## Repo layout +## Repo Structure ``` -AIS-OS/ +Synthos-AIOS/ ├── README.md ├── CLAUDE.md ← Your operating manual (filled by /onboard) -├── EXPANSIONS.md ← What to add as you grow +├── EXPANSIONS.md ← What to add as the system grows ├── LICENSE ├── .gitignore -├── aios-intake.md ← Source-of-truth for /onboard. Edit + re-run any time. +├── aios-intake.md ← Source of truth for /onboard — edit and re-run any time ├── connections.md ← Registry of every system your AIOS can reach -├── context/ ← About you, your business (filled by /onboard) +├── context/ ← About you and your business (filled by /onboard) ├── references/ -│ └── 3ms-framework.md ← The operator brain +│ └── 3ms-framework.md ← The operator thinking framework ├── decisions/ -│ └── log.md ← Append-only record of what was decided and why -├── archives/ ← Old stuff. Don't delete. Move here. +│ └── log.md ← Append-only record of decisions and reasoning +├── archives/ ← Old material — move here, don't delete └── .claude/ └── skills/ ├── onboard/SKILL.md @@ -120,14 +116,27 @@ AIS-OS/ └── level-up/SKILL.md ``` -See `EXPANSIONS.md` for what to add as you grow (`projects/`, `templates/`, `scripts/`, `.claude/agents/`, sub-OS folders, etc.). +See `EXPANSIONS.md` for what to add as you scale — `projects/`, `templates/`, `scripts/`, `.claude/agents/`, and sub-OS folders for team rollout. --- -## License + attribution +## Want This Built For Your Business? -MIT License. © 2026 Nate Herk. +This kit is the starting point. At **Synthos Systems** we take it further — connecting your AIOS to your real tools, building the automations that run while you're not watching, and monitoring everything through a live systems lab before it ever touches your operations. -The Three Ms of AI™ and The Four Cs of an AIOS™ are trademarks of Nate Herk. Both frameworks ship in this repo with attribution. Use freely; don't repackage as your own. +If you're ready to go beyond the kit: -The companion masterclass video walks you through the kit step by step. Link will land here once it ships. +- **AI Systems Foundation Session** — a paid working session where we build your AIOS live, connected to your actual business tools. Starting at $125. [Book at synthossystems.com/session](https://synthossystems.com/session) +- **AI Workflow System** — full workflow automation for your core business processes. $1,500–$5,000. +- **Business Command Center** — real-time dashboards and operational visibility. $3,000–$10,000. +- **AI Infrastructure System** — complete backend systems, automation pipelines, scalable deployment. $8,000–$25,000+. + +Questions? [chase@synthossystems.com](mailto:chase@synthossystems.com) · [synthossystems.com](https://synthossystems.com) + +--- + +## License + +MIT License. Free to use, modify, and build on. + +The Three Ms of AI™ and The Four Cs of an AIOS™ are frameworks used with permission. Attribution maintained out of respect for the original work. \ No newline at end of file