Crush Your Workweek with a Personal Jarvis System

What Is This?

Most people treat AI the way they treat Google. Type a question, get an answer, move on. That is the casual side. This workshop is about crossing to the pro side, and the difference is not incremental. It is orders of magnitude.

This is a closed-door, hands-on session where you build your own Jarvis from scratch. By the end, you will have a working setup on your laptop that knows who you are, what you are building, and how you think. It helps you prioritize, delegate, pressure-test strategy, and get to the answer at a level most operators will not reach for years.

Think of Tony Stark and the Iron Man suit. The suit does not replace him. It multiplies him. The limiting constraint is always the human: the quality of your thinking, your willingness to document what you know, your ability to define what should be executed. AI does not remove that constraint. It removes everything around it so the constraint can finally do its job.

This is not a lecture. This is not a demo. You walk out with a working system.

Why This Matters for Your Workweek

Companies like Ramp just showed the world what happens when every employee has a personal AI system: 1,500 apps shipped in six weeks, non-engineers writing production code, skills shared across the whole organization. The bar is being reset in real time. The self-improving enterprise is no longer a thesis. It is a company that is eating your market.

If you run a business, operate a team, or sell applied AI services, the question is no longer whether to adopt this way of working. It is whether you adopt it before your competitor does. Most people running complex operations are walking around with creative congestion: too many ideas, relationships, and decisions stuck in one head, with no system to offload them. A Personal Agentic OS is the relief valve.

You are about to walk into another Monday with the same set of open loops. Starting this week with a personal AI system that actually knows your business is not a nice-to-have. It is how you operate at a level that earns the deal, keeps the retainer, or finally makes room for the strategic work that has been sitting in your head for six months.

What You Will Build

Your AI workspace. A file-based system on your laptop that any AI tool can read. Plain markdown, version-controlled, sovereign. This is the foundation of your Sovereign Agentic Business OS.Your user profile. The foundational document that tells your AI who you are, what you value, what you are building, and how you make decisions. This is where your Jarvis starts.Your first skill files. Repeatable workflows written in plain English so your AI agent can execute them consistently. This is how you operationalize truth instead of leaving it in your head.Your first brain dump. The core loop: speak your thinking out loud, let the AI route it to the right place, and watch your system get smarter in real time.

By the end, you will have an AI that actually knows you. Not a chatbot you have to re-explain yourself to every time, but a system that understands your goals, your clients, your priorities, and the way you think. When you sit down Sunday night to plan the week, it already knows what you are preparing for. When you are stuck on a decision, it has the full context to think with you, not just at you.

And the compounding part: it gets smarter every single day you use it. Every conversation, every brain dump, every decision feeds the system. You own all of the data on your machine, version-controlled with Git. If a better AI tool drops tomorrow, you just point it at the same folder and keep going.

Who Should Attend

Founders and operators who want to reclaim strategic time inside a messy workweekConsultants and applied AI practitioners who want a system their clients can adoptBusiness owners carrying too many open threads and no way to offload themLeaders and executives whose job is now defining reality, not executing tasks (game design)Anyone comfortable bringing a laptop and following instructions in a terminal (we will help you get set up)

Who This Is Not For

People looking for a conceptual AI overview. This is build-first.People unwilling to document how they think. Your Jarvis is only as good as what you put into it.People looking for a done-for-you solution. You build this. You own this.

What to Bring

Your laptop (Mac, Windows, or Linux)A real strategic problem, project, or decision you have been putting offWillingness to speak your thinking out loud (voice-to-text is part of the workflow)

About the Instructor

Gary Sheng is the founder of the Applied AI Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping people and organizations transition into the applied AI economy. He previously worked at Google and has trained hundreds of executives, founders, and creatives on building personal AI systems. Travis Oliphant (creator of NumPy, SciPy, co-founder of Anaconda) serves as founding advisor.

About the Applied AI Society

The Applied AI Society exists to help humans stay sovereign and thrive in the applied AI economy. Our core thesis: the limiting reagent is not compute or capital. It is human literacy and will. Our public offering is helping people get their Jarvis, so they can do more good in the world with the time they get back.

Venue

Thank you to Antler for hosting this workshop. Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm with a focus on inception stage founders and a community of resident tech entrepreneurs and operators. Residents are immersed in a community with everything they need to build and scale at lightning speed. For more information on Antler and to apply to become a resident: https://to.antler.co/AITX

Founding Sponsors

The Applied AI Society is grateful to OpenTeams and Open Technology Incubator as founding sponsors. OpenTeams is building the infrastructure layer for applied AI, and their commitment to democratizing AI access is core to why the Applied AI Society exists. OT Incubator's mission is to provide entrepreneurs with services and capital to create the transformative organizations and businesses that will bring about the Applied AI Economy.