The AI Layer
A small set of AI tools sitting under everything else — and the key insight is that the highest-value one points inward, at Jer, not outward at clients. It serves Admin/Marketing (Jer) first: a private copilot that makes him faster, plus the corpus and tooling the rest of the platform draws on.
Verdict
BUILD — Claude Projects; trivial and cheap. But the priority is the internal copilot, not a client-facing bot. This fits Jer's soul thesis instead of fighting it: he said the AI tools that failed were missing the soul, and an internal copilot never tries to supply one. It makes Jer faster behind the scenes; it never stands in for his presence in the room. The client-facing pieces stay minimal and gated.
What it does
Three tools, in priority order:
- Jer's private facilitator copilot (highest value, underrated): a Claude Project loaded with his full curriculum + the research twins + the facilitation guides + his story corpus. It helps HIM prep sessions, draft reveals, generate discussion questions, and find the right story for the moment. Internal, zero brand risk, and no soul-substitution problem — it's a tool for the facilitator, not a stand-in for one.
- The voice-less client prep/journaling workbook (the deferred "Pack Companion"): private, offered ONLY after a paying client explicitly asks for between-session support. NO voice clone, NO public "AI Jer" — that would contradict the soul thesis (Risk #5). Low priority per the red-team review; it waits until a real client asks.
- The story-corpus pipeline: Whisper transcription (already running) plus a simple searchable catalog, so Jer's recordings become usable raw material for the book, the reveals, and the Bytes.
How we'd build it
Nothing exotic. Claude Projects means literally loading the docs into a project — no app to build. Whisper handles transcription and is already done. The catalog is a folder plus an index/search over the transcripts. That's the whole stack.
Effort & cost
The copilot is an afternoon to set up and runs at roughly $0-30/mo. The workbook is trivial to assemble the day a client actually asks for it. The corpus pipeline is mostly already done — Whisper is running; the catalog is a thin layer on top.
When
Copilot: Phase 1 — do it early. It's cheap and it compounds across everything else on the platform. Workbook: deferred, gated on a client actually asking. Corpus pipeline: ongoing, as Jer records more.
Connects to
The copilot drafts the corpus that feeds The Content Studio. The Path defines the story-capture protocol behind the corpus pipeline. The workbook is the Strategy Brief's deferred "Pack Companion," and Red Team 1 — Where the Plan Should Change explains both the Companion deferral and the Coachvox/voice-clone fix. It all sits inside The Platform.