Jobs get filled before they are posted. Deals get won before the prospect lands on anyone's list. Stories get published before the trend reaches the feed.

The edge is real. Most people never reach it in time.

Find your next job before it is posted. Get the lead before it reaches anyone else's list. Wake up to the story on your beat, already drafted in your voice. That edge sits in public view every day, for anyone willing to read closely enough to catch it.

A groundbreaking, a funding round, a new leader taking over, a permit filed. Every one sits in the news for weeks while everybody else waits for a posting or buys the same tired list.

People who win show up early. What stops the rest is arithmetic. Every morning you would need to:

• Read your whole market before your first meeting
• Find the right name inside each piece of news
• Write something that does not sound like a template

That is a full-time job on top of your job. So give it to a team of AI agents that works while you sleep.

Three signals that expired in one market this month

• A $398M convention hotel broke ground. Its leadership team gets decided long before a posting exists. Window: closing monthly.
• A 148-room property opened. First-90-days vendor decisions are being made right now. Window: weeks.
• A new general manager took over a flagship. New leaders answer cold notes in month one and stop answering in month three. Window: days.

Somebody answers every signal first. Build the system that makes it you.

How it works

Two hours. Seventeen pastes. A running system before you log off.

No code. Nothing typed into a terminal. If you can make a folder and copy and paste, you can build this.

• You bring: a laptop and the free Claude Desktop app
• We bring: a handout where every block is numbered 1 through 17
• You paste, Claude builds: we explain what each piece does before you paste it
• You leave with: the system running on your machine, verified before you log off

See the full hour-by-hour

Minutes 0 to 20. Setup and the ground rules.

App installed, folder created, first two blocks pasted. We cover the one rule the whole system is built around: it writes drafts and it never sends or publishes. You will see the exact line in the exact file where that rule lives.

Minutes 20 to 45. The system interviews you.

This is the part people remember. The system looks you up online, drafts your background or your offer or your beat, proposes the sources it thinks it should watch, and asks you to approve each piece. You correct it where it is wrong. Twenty minutes of conversation replaces an hour of forms.

Minutes 45 to 75. The specialists get built.

Blocks 6 through 13. One researcher reads your market or your beat. A finder names the right person to contact, or the angle worth writing. A writer drafts in your voice, and a ledger keeps the record, so no person gets contacted twice and no angle gets reused. Each piece gets explained as a pattern, not as a magic recipe.

Minute 75. First real run.

Your market or your beat. Real sources. Today's news. The room goes quiet here, reliably.

Minutes 75 to 105. Reading the output and fixing it.

Results come back labeled. Confident findings look different from guesses, on purpose. We tune the voice until the drafts sound like you. On the job and sales tracks that means outreach that reads like you wrote it. On the story track it means an opening paragraph that sounds like your last published piece.

Minutes 105 to 120. Schedule it and take it home.

Pick your mornings. Set the run. Walk out with the handout that reruns every step, the File Pack, and the recording.

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What you are actually building: five files that work as a team

Your system is five plain-text files on your own laptop. You can open, read, and change every one of them. No black box.

• Memory. A file that stores who you are: your background, your targets, your voice rules. The system reads it before every run.
• Specialists. Separate agents with one job each. One reads your market's news. One finds the right person inside it. One writes the draft.
• Recipes. The step-by-step instructions each specialist follows, the same way on run 4 and run 400, so the output does not drift.
• Conductor. The single command you type. It runs each specialist in order and hands the results between them.
• Ledger. The running record of who was found, who was contacted, and what came back, so nobody gets contacted twice.

What a Tuesday morning looks like

You type one command. The researcher reads your market's news. The finder names the right person at the right company. The writer leaves a draft in your voice in a folder on your laptop. The ledger confirms you have never contacted them before. You read three findings over coffee and press send on the one you like.

Learn these five pieces once and you can build the same shape for hiring, compliance monitoring, competitive tracking, or renewal watching. Different sources, same architecture.

Coaching

Want someone to show you how to get the most out of Claude?

Your session leaves you with an agent system built on Claude. Our 1:1 coaching program makes Claude itself your daily tool, whichever track you took. A coach works with you, on your screen, on your real work:

• Your workspace, organized. A context folder with your background, your goals, and your voice rules, read before every task, so you never re-explain yourself
• Your voice, protected. Ban the AI-sounding patterns and teach Claude to write the way you actually write
• Skills and templates. Turn any output that worked into a recipe you can rerun and share
• No more usage-limit walls. Batching, model choice, fresh chats, and file prep, so the $20 plan covers your whole morning run
• Your tools, connected. Gmail, Drive, and calendar, so Claude works from your real context instead of copy and paste

The coaching program opens after founding week. The waiting list gets first pick of slots.

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Your instructor

Michael J. Goldrich

Founder of Vivander Advisors and a recognized expert on practical AI.

• Author of three books on AI: Too Many Hats, Too Little Time; the AI Literacy Playbook; and Invisible: What To Do When AI Erases Your Business
• Speaks around the world on AI and is a frequent conference keynote speaker
• Works across industries: law firms, pharma, universities, libraries, ecommerce, hotels, restaurants, casinos, real estate, and senior living
• Runs these systems daily. The Story-Scout system wrote the campaign that brought you here. Its prospecting counterpart found the corporate buyers reading it

Why this exists

Hiring systems now screen out résumés before a person ever reads them. Sales intelligence platforms cost more every year and mostly still point everyone at the same public list. The system favors whoever already has the budget for automation, and that has rarely been the person looking for the next job or the next lead.

Michael built the first version of this system for laid-off friends and colleagues who were stuck watching LinkedIn, applying to scores of postings, and hearing nothing back. Their edge could not come from working harder. Nobody outworks an algorithm that reads every posting before a person can refresh the page. That edge came from reading the market before the posting existed at all, the way the largest companies already do it, at a fraction of the cost.

Agent Builder Sessions teaches the same edge to whoever needs it next: the job seeker competing against an applicant-tracking system, the rep competing against a competitor's enterprise data subscription, the writer competing against a newsroom with ten people on staff. Few people outside a handful of well-funded teams know how to build this. In two hours, you become one of them.

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FAQ

Questions people ask

Do I need to pay for Claude?

Yes. A paid Claude plan is required, currently $20 a month for Claude Pro. That is real money and it is a real requirement, so here it is plainly rather than buried in a footnote. What you should weigh against it: after this session the plan stops being a subscription you forgot about and becomes the tool your system runs on every morning. Nearly everyone who finishes a session keeps it. If the $20 is genuinely the blocker, email me before you book and we will talk.

I have never used AI beyond a chat box. Can I do this?

Yes, and you are the person this was designed for. The session starts at downloading the app. Every block is numbered and every one gets explained before you paste it. If you can make a folder and copy and paste, you can complete every step. Our least technical participants have finished with a running system in the same two hours as everyone else.

Will this work in my industry?

The examples in the session come from hospitality, where the first system was built. The architecture cares about signals and sources, neither of which is industry-specific. During the setup interview the system researches your market, proposes the sources it thinks it should watch, and asks you to approve or replace them. Law firms, pharma, universities, libraries, ecommerce, casinos, real estate, and senior living have all worked. In the Cohort and Working Session formats we tune your sources live.

What exactly do I leave with?

Four things. A working agent system on your own laptop, running on a schedule you set. Then a printed handout that reruns every step from scratch. The complete File Pack, plain text and yours to edit. Last, the session recording. Plus the five patterns, which are the part that outlives this particular system.

Will it send emails on my behalf?

Never. Everything the system produces is a draft. You read every message and press send yourself. That rule is written into the system's files and you will see exactly where it lives, because we build that file together.

What if something breaks?

Two answers. During the session, we stop and fix it, and I run the entire build myself the same day as your session specifically so that broken pastes get caught before you hit them. After the session, the File Pack is plain text and almost every problem is a two-minute fix documented in the handout. Cohort seats include two weeks of email support. Working Session buyers get a week-two call. Build-Along participants get the handout troubleshooting section and the recording.

Is the session recorded, and do I get the recording?

Every session is recorded and every participant gets it. During founding week the recording goes to attendees only, because the live room is where the value is and I would rather protect the reason to show up. Recordings stay available to you permanently.

More questions

What is your cancellation policy?

Cancel more than 48 hours before your session and you get a full refund or a transfer to a later date. Inside 48 hours we will move you to another session, since the seat cannot be resold that late.

How is this different from a prompt-engineering course?

A prompt course teaches you to write better instructions to a chat box. You leave with better questions. Here you leave with software: multiple agents, a schedule, a memory file, and a ledger, running on your machine without you starting the conversation. The five patterns are software architecture taught in plain language, not phrasing tips.

How much time does the system need after the session?

Ten to fifteen minutes a morning. The system runs on its schedule, produces its findings and its drafts, and waits. Your job is reading, approving, and pressing send. Most people also do a ten-minute Friday review, which we teach in the session, to cut what produced nothing and expand what produced replies.

Can I take more than one track?

Yes, and several people have. The second track is faster because the architecture is identical and only the sources and the specialists change. Email me and I will price the pair rather than charging you twice for the same first hour.

What do I need to bring?

A laptop, the free Claude Desktop app, a paid Claude plan, and for the job track a Gmail account if you want drafts delivered ready to send. Setup gets covered in a prep email 24 hours out, about ten minutes of work. Nothing else.

How many people are actually in the room?

Ten in a Build-Along, four in a Cohort, one in a Working Session. Those caps are hard. When a format shows as full it is full.

What is the 1:1 Claude coaching program?

Coaching focused on Claude itself rather than your agent system: workspace setup, voice rules, skills and templates, usage-limit habits, and tool connections. One on one, on your screen, on your real work. The program opens after founding week, and the waiting list on this page gets first pick of slots.

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September dates go out to this list first, before anything is posted publicly. First pick of dates and formats, which matters most for the one-per-week Working Session slots. The same list covers the 1:1 Claude coaching program.

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One email when dates open. No sequence, no drip, no newsletter.

Every week without a system is a week those answers come from someone else.

The groundbreakings keep happening. Funding rounds keep closing. New leaders keep taking over, and every one gets a note from somebody in their first month.

Two hours from now you could have a system that finds them for you every morning, built live with the instructor whose own campaigns run on it.

The founding cohort closes August 14.

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