Two hours, live, building a company brain from scratch with Austin Distel.
Your AI does not have a capability problem. It has a context problem. A company brain is plain files in a folder your team already owns, read by an AI that knows how to route a question to the right one.
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00:00 Welcome, and how the two of us got here
03:00 The thesis: a business that thinks for itself
05:00 Own your data, stay model-agnostic
07:00 Hire your AI the way you hire a person
10:00 The tooling floor, and what it costs
12:00 Why build a company brain: the six reasons
16:00 Rot and drift, the two ways AI memory fails
18:00 V1, V2, V3: you, your team, your agents
20:00 Security, HIPAA, access and governance
21:00 Shared Drive, not My Drive, and why
25:00 What to gather first
27:00 Inside the structure: CLAUDE.md, markdown, the inbox 29:00 Demo: the bookkeeper run
31:00 How the brain onboards itself
33:00 Permissions in practice
35:00 Employee onboarding as the design spec
36:00 The HR director hack
45:00 The daily close, and the mistakes log
48:00 Evergreen versus ever-growing context
53:00 Version control and change logs
56:00 Demo: asking a live brain for the vacation policy
1:03:00 Demo: the starter prompt and the harvest
1:10:00 Daily briefs, Slack, and not dropping balls
1:11:00 The Monday message that runs a company
1:17:00 What actually goes in the brain
1:20:00 Team permissions and client folders
1:22:00 Tokens, vectorizing, and the index
1:25:00 Learning from the people who build the tools
1:27:00 When to stop optimizing
1:29:00 EOS, goals, and enabling the team
1:33:00 Importing an existing drive
1:51:00 Close