Second Brain · Session #2

An AI that knows you.

Session #1 built your second brain and taught it who you are. Now you install the minds that put it to work: a coach that mirrors you, a sidekick that thinks with you, and a council that helps you decide.

The third engine

From a brain to a team

You've already built the first two engines. This session switches on the third: the Systems Engine, where your brain stops being a place you store things and starts being a team that works with you.

Engine 1

Strategy Engine

Your second brain. One organised home for everything. Built in Session #1.

Done
Engine 2

Self Engine

Who you are: your voice, values, goals and story. Built in Session #1.

Done
Engine 3

Systems Engine

The minds that act on top: your AI Coach, Sidekick and Decision Council.

You are here
Before you start

You need Session #1 first

Each of these three minds reads your second brain and your Self Engine before it acts. That's what makes them know you. So you need both of those in place first.

1

Your Second Brain (Strategy Engine)

The six-folder home you set up in Session #1, opened in Claude or Codex.

2

Your Self Engine

The working model of who you are, saved in 03. Areas/Self/self-engine/.

Haven't built them yet? Start with Session #1
What you're installing

Three new minds for your brain

Each one installs in a couple of minutes, lives inside your brain, and is there whenever you call it. Here's the quick picture, then the full setup for each below.

Implementer 1

AI Coach

A mirror for your inner world. It surfaces what you've been tolerating, your blind spots, and your money patterns, then saves them so you can work through them.

coach me
Implementer 2

AI Sidekick

A sharp strategist to think with when you're stuck, unclear, or making a call. It hunts your real bottleneck instead of just agreeing with you.

think with me
Implementer 3

Decision Council

A room of advisors for your hardest calls. Bring a decision and a panel weighs in, then hands you a clear recommendation.

council this
Implementer 1 · The Mirror

AI Coach: The Mirror

A real life coach in your corner, not a fixer. It asks one sharp question at a time and lets you reach your own answers instead of handing you advice. It starts with a guided brain-dump that walks every area of your life and helps you get it all out, the worries, the things you're avoiding, the stuff you've quietly been tolerating. After that, call it any time to think something through, work a limiting belief until it loosens, or untangle how you really feel about money. Everything it surfaces is saved to your brain so you can come back to it.

Get it all outOne question at a timeSee your own patternsMoney mindset
1. Open Claude in your second brain folder.
2. Drop in this file and say: read this file and set up my AI Coach
3. Any time you want to think clearly, just say coach me.
It mirrors first, it doesn't rush you to fix. When you've emptied your head, it asks whether you want to start working through any of it now or leave it for another day. Everything that surfaces gets saved in 03. Areas/Self/mirror/, so you can come back to it in your own time. Works even before your Self Engine is built, and gets sharper once it is.
Download the AI Coach

Saves as AI-Coach-Setup.md

Implementer 2 · Think With Me

AI Sidekick

The partner you think with, not a yes-man. It reads your brain and your Self Engine, looks for the one real bottleneck instead of agreeing with you, and ends with a clear next step instead of a pile of options. The sharp second mind that's always in your corner.

1. Open Claude in your second brain folder.
2. Drop in this file and say: read this file and set up my AI Sidekick
3. Whenever you're stuck, unclear, or weighing a move, say think with me.
The first time, it runs a short interview so it isn't generic. A few plain questions about where you're headed, where you're the bottleneck, the rule you decide by, what it can run with on its own, and what to protect in your life. It remembers your answers, so from then on it thinks with you, not at you.
Download the AI Sidekick

Saves as AI-Sidekick-Setup.md

Implementer 3 · Council This

Decision Council

For the calls that keep you up at night. Bring a decision and your advisors each weigh in from their angle, challenge each other, then a chairman pulls it together into one clear recommendation, with a confidence level and the one thing that would change the answer.

1. Open Claude in your second brain folder.
2. Drop in this file and say: read this file and set up my Decision Council
3. Build your council, then bring it any big decision and say council this.
Your council, chosen by you

There's no preset panel to memorise. You decide who sits in your room, and the AI brings them to life. When you say build my council, it walks you through a few questions and then assembles the people who actually fit you.

  1. It asks who's best at each thing you need, whose results you actually want, and who would tell you the hard truth.
  2. From your answers it suggests three to five, balanced so it's never an echo chamber: someone who's done it, someone who'll challenge you, someone who anchors your values. Already know who you want? It just uses them.
  3. It researches each one so the voice is sharp and real. For a private mentor, you can paste their book or a few YouTube links to deepen them further.
No books needed to start. Famous voices are already understood, so your council works the moment it's built. Then ask what would [name] say for one voice, or activate my entire council on this for the whole room.
Download the Decision Council

Saves as Decision-Council-Setup.md

Get more out of it

When to call which one

Three minds, three different jobs. When you're not sure which to reach for, this is the simple rule.

Feeling foggy, flat, or like something's quietly off
coach me
Putting up with things you've never actually named
coach me
Stuck on a business move, or unclear what's next
think with me
Spinning on a hard, high-stakes decision
council this
Want a gut check from people whose judgment you trust
council this
Bonus

A shortcut you can use right now

While you set up your own minds, there's one you can borrow today. The Master Implementer GPT has been used over 1,000 times as a powerful mirror that diagnoses the real blocks underneath whatever you're stuck on.

The Master Implementer GPT

Your instant mirror and thinking partner

Reach for it when you want a quick mirror, a thinking partner, or a straight diagnosis, and especially in those moments you feel like burning it all down or walking away. It meets you wherever you are: in resistance, confusion, ambition, or honesty.

Start here: say "I want an identity cheatsheet." It's the most powerful thing it does.
Release a belief"I know there's a limiting belief holding me back. Can you help me release it?"
Money"Help me unpack what's going on in my relationship with money right now."
Brain-dump"I just need to brain-dump. Can you help me see what's really going on?"
The quit moment"I feel like giving up. Can you help me sit with this instead of spiraling?"
Avoided"There's something I want to do but keep avoiding. Can you help me move?"
Inner critic"There's a harsh voice in my head. Can you help me understand and respond to it?"
Open the GPT How to get the most from it
More to come

This is the start of your team

Your AI Coach, Sidekick and Decision Council are the first three. More implementers are coming, each one reading your brain and your Self Engine before it acts. We install them together in the sessions ahead.

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Stuck on any step?

Nothing here is one-way. If a step doesn't feel right or a word sounds technical, just ask Claude a question, because that's what it's there for. You can always fix or change it together.