Practitioner Playbooks
Guides for anyone applying AI professionally, whether you're just starting out or running engagements for clients. For the broader concept behind the term (who counts as one, the daily shape vs. the pro shape), see Applied AI Practitioner. The playbooks below are for the pro shape: turning the practice into a career.
The Opportunity
There has never been a better time to be young and comfortable with AI. Companies across every industry need people who can bridge the gap between what AI can do and what their business actually needs. That gap is the opportunity.
The elevator economy is real: companies that embrace AI will compound their advantage, while companies that don't will fall behind. Young practitioners who learn to help organizations cross that divide will be the most valuable hires of the next decade.
Culture transformation (helping companies develop an AI-first mindset) is the highest-impact work in this space. But it starts with practitioners who understand both the technology and the humans using it.
Available Playbooks
| Playbook | Description |
|---|---|
| The Applied AI Economy | Understanding the market landscape and the elevator-economy divide |
| ICP Clarity | Getting clear on who you serve before you build anything |
| Experimental Improvement | The mindset behind continuous delivery and iteration |
| Pricing Your AI Engagements | Framework for value-based pricing, retainers, and equity deals |
| Finding Clients Through Trust | Why cold outreach fails and how to build a practice through your warm network |
| The Pilot Pitch | How to propose a 2-4 week pilot that's almost impossible to say no to |
| Supersuit Up Workshop | Setting up your personal AI business OS for truth management and compounding context |
| Tool Setups | Setup tutorials for the harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Hermes), git, and the workspace bootstrap. Pick a harness, follow the setup, then come back here. |
| Export Your AI History | Vendor-confirmed export steps (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) + filtered synthesis prompt to bootstrap your user/USER.md from years of old conversations |
| How To Prompt Your Jarvis | The whole stack of getting what you want out of your Jarvis. The prompt is the smallest lever; the real leverage is the Personal Agentic OS, tools, skill files, per-session priming, and an interrogative CLAUDE.md. |
| Priming Your Jarvis | The tactical discipline of giving your agent enough context before you ask it to do anything real. Drag the relevant files in. Voice-dump the framing. Define success. Then send. |
| Workshop Instructor Playbook | Instructor guide for running Personal Agentic OS workshops: who the room is for, who it is not for, format, pacing, and lessons learned |
| Using the Docs with Your Jarvis | How to give your Personal Agentic OS access to the full AAS knowledge base |
| Start Your Wiki | Build a personal or organizational wiki: platform choice, the capture loop, cross-linking, and graduating ideas from personal to organizational truth |
| PRM Tutorials | Hands-on guides for getting conversations into your PRM. Starts with auto-syncing Granola notes plus the manual TurboScribe path for voice memos and wearable recorders. |
Learn from Practitioners
New to applied AI? Start by attending an Applied AI Live event in your city.
Already doing the work? Read our Case Studies to learn directly from people in the field.