The deep track — for nurses who want to operate, not just use
Start Here gets your system running in an evening. This is everything after that evening: ten modules that take you from first install to a governed, always-on personal AI system — memory, connections, scheduled work, an operator console, and the discipline to run it all safely.
10 modules · 73 lessons · self-paced. Written lessons and guides are live now; video walkthroughs are being added throughout the founding year. Free for nurses and nursing students — like everything here.
One mental model before anything else
A chatbot explains how to build a study plan. An agent builds it, schedules it, and checks on you Tuesday. Everything in this masterclass rests on a three-part model — and it maps to something nursing school already taught you: safe delegation.
Workflows
A workflow is a written, repeatable process: what happens, in what order, and what "done" looks like. You've been writing these your whole career — they were called care plans and protocols.
Agent
Hermes reads the plan, interprets it, and carries it out — the way you delegate to capable assistive personnel. It acts within the boundaries you set, reports back, and improves from your corrections.
Tools
Email, files, calendars, spreadsheets, the web — the instruments the agent actually works with. Each connection is granted deliberately, like equipment checked out and signed for.
And the part that never gets delegated: accountability. You remain the licensed judgment in the loop. The agent proposes; you approve what matters. That principle — the human gate — is built into every module below, not saved for a safety lecture at the end.
The curriculum
The sequence follows the nursing process you already trust: assess the foundations, plan the setup, implement power and memory, evaluate with governance — then extend into earning and building. Open any module to see its lessons. Work top to bottom, or jump to what tonight needs.
What an agent is, why it's different from the chat window you've used, and why nurses — trained in process, delegation, and documentation — are unusually good at this.
Work with: the SOUL Quiz and Companion Guide · the Workbook modules 1–2
Start Here put Hermes on your laptop. This module makes the setup deliberate: where it lives, how it authenticates, how it survives a crash, and — when you're ready — how it stays awake while you sleep.
Work with: the Pre-Procedure Checklist · the Hermes setup guide · the Essentials Guide (PDF)
The agent is yours; the intelligence behind it is swappable. Learn to route the right model to the right task — the way you triage acuity — and to run near-free, fully private, or maximum-power on purpose.
Work with: the Essentials Guide (budget path) · The Power Guide (routing & profiles)
A system that forgets you every morning is a tool. A system that remembers is a colleague. Build the three layers of memory — and audit them with the same discipline you bring to a chart.
Work with: the Starter Kit folder architecture (the Memory folder) · Make It Yours workflows
Connectors are how the agent reaches your real life — email, files, calendar. Each one multiplies usefulness and risk together, so each one is granted like equipment signed out: deliberately, and no wider than needed.
Work with: the Power Guide · the fresh-Gmail habit from Start Here, step 1
This is where the system stops being a project and starts being a practice: a morning huddle that runs itself, goals under active management, and delegation to a small team of sub-agents — with stopping conditions you set.
Work with: Make It Yours — six workflows · the Power Guide (profiles & cron)
Pilots get cockpits; charge nurses get station boards. You get both: a read-only console over your entire AI system — memory, activity, goals, and spend — that can watch everything and touch nothing.
Work with: the Local HTML Life Dashboard · the Starter Kit
Everywhere else, safety appears one rule at a time. Here it becomes a system: risk tiers, approval gates, kill switches, spend protection, and a ledger — the module that makes everything else trustworthy. If you lead people, start here.
Work with: the Governance Kit (ZIP) · Safety Rules + EDENA poster · current Directive v1.1 governance
First the system pays you back in hours; then, if you want, in income. A nurse-safe path to earning with AI — no patient data, no scope creep, no pretending to be a startup founder if you don't want to be one.
Work with: the Side-Gig Starter Kit · NIN Career Navigator
The companion track: using a coding agent to build real websites and small apps — the same way this site was built. For nurses who discover, module by module, that they like building.
Work with: the Setup Kit — Architect Mode · Builder Academy (Philippines) · Builder Academy (Canada)
In a hurry? Prove it to yourself in a week
You don't need all ten modules to feel the change. Seven days, about an hour a day, one visible win per day — each day borrows exactly what it needs from the curriculum above. At the end you have a working system and the confidence to go deeper.
Set up (if you haven't), load your SOUL file, and run the morning huddle — then make one correction and watch it stick. Draws on Modules 1–2.
Done when: your huddle ran, and one correction became permanent
Wire your separate AI-life Gmail or Drive. Inspect exactly what the agent can now see and do, and write down what you granted. Draws on Module 5.
Done when: one connector works, and its permissions are documented
Turn Day 1's workflow into a saved skill and run it on a second, different input. One build, many uses — that's the whole trick. Draws on Modules 4 & 6.
Done when: the same skill worked twice without re-explaining
Move your keys out of chat and into proper secrets, check the logs, and set a spending cap before you need one. Draws on Modules 2 & 8.
Done when: secrets are stored properly and a budget cap exists
Personalize the local dashboard from your starter kit and bookmark it — your whole system, one glance, nothing uploaded anywhere. Draws on Module 7.
Done when: your dashboard opens from a bookmark with your real priorities on it
Put one job on a schedule (a weekly review works beautifully), add an alert, and decide where a human — you — must approve. Draws on Modules 6 & 8.
Done when: one job runs on its own, inside limits you chose
Connect the pieces — email, calendar, tasks, memory, schedule — into one working assistant, and write a one-page operating guide for it: what it does daily, what it asks before doing, what it never touches. That guide is your proof you're an operator now, not a user.
Done when: the operating guide is written and tomorrow's huddle runs without you starting it
Finish a day? Tell someone. Bring your win — and one thing you'd improve — to the monthly Lamp Huddle, or share it with the community. Teaching one colleague what you built is Day 8.
The method behind every lesson
Every lesson in this masterclass follows the same seven-beat pattern — the same way every good skills lab follows one. You always know where you are and what "done" means.
Every lesson opens with the problem it removes from your actual week — never with the technology.
A single idea, usually borrowed from nursing, before any clicking. If you can give report, you can learn this.
A prompt, checklist, file, or kit you copy instead of writing from scratch. Nobody here starts from a blank page.
The full procedure with a visible done-state — you'll know it worked because you'll be looking at the result.
A few questions to confirm the idea landed — a self-review, not a test. Nothing is graded; everything is learnable twice.
Say it out loud — at the Lamp Huddle, in the community, or to the colleague at the next locker. Teaching it seals it.
Each lesson ends by naming exactly what the next one assumes — so you never open a page unprepared.
Three honest entry points
Brand new
Skip this page entirely for now. The five-step setup is one evening, and this masterclass will still be here — free — when your system is running.
Set up & curious
Take the 7-Day Fast Track above. One hour a day, one visible win a day — and by Sunday you'll know which modules you want in depth.
Leaders & the responsible
Read Module 8 first — governance before power is the whole point. Then work Modules 1–7 knowing what the guardrails are for.
The nurses who learn to run these systems — safely, on their own terms — will be the ones deciding how care intelligence is born. That was always the plan.
Open Module 1 → Join the community list
Stuck on a lesson? A human answers email, and the monthly Lamp Huddle is free.