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DAINER.AI / Academy / One session, on your own laptop

Bring one job you repeat.
Leave with it set up and running.

Two and a half hours, on your own laptop. We set up AI around one job you already do — your company information, your rules, and the step where you check before anything goes out.

Built for owners, managers and small teams who are not technical — no coding, nothing installed that you do not understand. You start from scattered chats and folders. You leave with a tidy workspace you can reopen on Monday, a place where what you read is kept, and one job running end to end that you can check yourself. (Inside, we call that set-up your AI Work OS.)

See which Academy path fits — including “not yet.”

If you cannot run what we built by the end of the session, there is no fee. I hand you the keyboard and go quiet.

RM800 founding rate, first five clients. RM1,500 after the five places are filled.

One job, finished properly. Not four half-built demos. You choose which one before we start.

The session / 0:00 → 2:30On your own laptop · one job · you at the keyboard

What the two and a half hours look like

Six stops.
You drive the last two.

The order never changes. The times are typical, not a stopwatch — a slow stop takes what it needs, and the last one is not skipped to make up time.

  1. Your job, in your wordsThe sample you brought, the rules you already follow, said out loud and written down.
  2. Your workspaceOne folder on your machine: the project law, the map, your real projects.
  3. Your notesThe vault and the save button. One article goes in and comes out searchable.
  4. Your job, first runThe four skills, set up and run in front of you on your own sample.
  5. You run it. I go quiet.The keyboard is yours. The session is not finished until you can do all eight checks yourself.
  6. The known-good copy, and MondayA safe point to go back to, and what you open first next week.

Typical times · the order is fixed · 2:30 is the end, not the goal

02 / Who is teaching thisDainer · DAINER.AI
Dainer, photographed in a Venetian cloister
Dainer — instructor, DAINER.AI

A short introduction

I set up the system
around your own work.

“I do not teach prompt tricks. I help you set up the files, memory, skills and review points around the work you already do — then we build one Desk you can run yourself.”

I run businesses in financing, marketing and digital products, and the same shape holds all of them up: a clear workspace, written rules the AI actually reads, memory that keeps what we decided, and a human review point before anything leaves the room.

That is what I teach. Not AI as a subject. AI as one working part of your week.

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13 years in financing consultancy, Malaysia
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Owner of a marketing agency and a financing agency
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Runs several businesses day to day on the same AI set-up you will leave with
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Sessions in English, Bahasa Melayu or 中文 — Kuala Lumpur or online
03 / What usually goes wrongThe honest starting point

You already pay for the tools

The tools are open.
Nothing is set up.

Almost everyone I sit with has a paid AI plan and a browser full of chats. What they do not have is a place for the work to live, rules the AI reads before it answers, or any memory of what was decided last month.

So every task starts from zero, and every good answer is lost the moment the tab closes.

Chats, not filesThe good work is buried in a scroll nobody can search next week.
No written rulesYou correct the same thing every time because the correction is never saved.
No memoryYour prices, your offer, your banned words — retyped in every conversation.
No review pointNobody has decided who checks the output before it goes anywhere.
04 / Choose your first jobFour desks · you build one · a desk is one job, set up once

The work is the curriculum

One job each.
Pick the one that hurts most.

A Desk is one repeated job with a defined input, defined steps, a defined output, and a point where a person approves it. Pick the one closest to your week — or let the two-minute Fit Check name one for you, and tell you honestly if none of this fits yet.

One Desk is built during your session. Not four. You choose which one before we start — the other three stay available for later work.

Desk noteChoose a desk above

Four desks. You build one, properly.

Open any desk to read who it fits, what goes in, what comes out, what gets set up, and what stays a human decision. Customer-specific skills beyond the chosen Desk are filtered during the intake conversation, not sold as a bundle.

05 / The AI Work OSThe control room on your machine

Where the work lives

One workspace
you can reopen.

A plain folder on your own machine. Readable files, no platform to log into, nothing that stops working if a subscription lapses. On your laptop it is simply a folder called your Work OS. You do not need to understand the map below — it is what the set-up looks like inside. In plain words: one folder, a few written rules, and your real projects.

01
Project lawWhat each project is, what the AI may read, and where its output belongs. Written once, read before every run.
02
Memory boundariesShared knowledge sits in 20_SHARED. Client-specific material stays inside its own project and does not leak sideways.
03
Downloads inboxOne landing place for files coming in, so nothing important lives in a browser download folder.
04
Git baseline and rollback guideTwo tagged known-good points and a plain-language note on returning to them. Git restores tracked local files — it is not a backup of your accounts, cloud databases or third-party services.

Only your real projectsWe create the projects you actually run — not an empty structure to fill in later. A solo operator may start with three. A small company may start with marketing, enquiries and operations.

06 / The Second BrainYour memory system, in plain files on your laptop

What you read stops disappearing

A vault that keeps
what you learn.

Your Second Brain is a notes app called Obsidian, set up inside your workspace, with a one-click “save this page” button for your browser. When you save an article, it lands as a plain text file you own with its title, source URL, author, date and tags — in your vault, on your disk.

The save button keeps what you saved. It does not judge whether the source is true. That check stays yours, and it is one of the review points we write down.

You can search everything you saved, follow links between notes, and open a map that shows how your notes connect. If you want the graph on a keyboard shortcut, we assign one during setup — Obsidian does not ship a universal one.

A Renaissance reading room, people working at round tables covered in papers and charts
The vault — where reading turns into something you can use
07 / What gets set up and testedFour small skills

Small enough to understand

Four skills.
All of them tested.

Four small helpers, each with one plain job, set up on your machine and run in front of you before the session ends. We call them skills. Not a library you never open.

Skill 01 · your memory system

Second
Brain

Turns what you saved this week into tidy notes you can search — and points out where two sources disagree, so you decide.

Human keeps — deciding which sources deserve to be kept at all.
Skill 02

Query
Wiki

Answers from your own notes first, and says plainly when it does not know — instead of guessing and sounding confident.

Human keeps — the final call when local knowledge and the model disagree.
Skill 03

Review
& Verify

Checks a result against the rules you wrote down, then says verified, unverified or broken. Nothing is called finished on its own say-so.

Human keeps — approval. Nothing is sent or published by this skill.
Skill 04 · your one job

Your chosen
job, running

The job you picked in § 04, set up around the real work you repeat: what comes in, the steps, what comes out, and the point where you approve.

Human keeps — the decision the job stops at, by design.
Cross-agent test
We set up the AI tool your job actually needs. Most owners start with Claude, under the plan they already pay for. A second tool (Codex) needs a terminal and its own paid access, so it is only set up if your chosen job truly needs it — and I say so before we start, not after.
08 / The progressionLearn → Install → Build

One route, three depths

Start where the
problem actually is.

T2 is the usual starting point. T1 is free reading and watching. T3 is for when one session is clearly too small for the problem.

T1

Learn the Method

Public tutorials and written breakdowns of how I actually work. Academy lessons are built from the founding sessions, so they are not offered as a finished course catalogue yet.

FreePublic tutorials and posts
T2 — start here

Install Your
AI Work OS

One session on your laptop: your workspace, your rules, your notes, and one real job running — set up with you, not for you.

We build the workspace, the Obsidian Second Brain, the four skills and the one Workflow Desk you chose, on your laptop, in one working session. The last stretch is you running it while I go quiet.

RM800Founding rate, first five clients.
Then RM1,500.
Credits 100% into a build within 30 days.
T3

Build Your Company Work OS

For a team rather than one person: a workspace for each part of the business, a small set of helpers built for your work, jobs that hand over to each other, written team rules with a named person who approves each step, training and handover. Delivered as an online workshop, a scoped build, or both. The workshop runs online so everyone works on their own machine and their own connection — venue wi-fi is the usual reason people leave a training day with nothing running.

RM3,888per person · online workshop, 8–12 people
Run online on your own connection, and repeated until you can run it yourself.

Builds: RM5,500 · RM12,000 · RM22,000+, quoted to scope
09 / Exactly what T2 deliversOn your machine, under your login

You leave with

Eight things
you can open tomorrow.

Nothing here lives on my computer. Everything sits in your own account, in plain files you can read without me.

01The Work OS folderREADME, project law, workspace map, TODO and decisions — the control room
02Your real projectsOnly the projects you actually run, with memory boundaries between them
03The Obsidian vaultInbox → Raw → Wiki → Decisions, with the Web Clipper configured
04Compile WikiRaw notes become source Notes and cross-source Concepts
05Query WikiAnswers check your own knowledge first, and say when it is missing
06Review & VerifyVerified, unverified or broken — against the checks you wrote
07Your Workflow DeskOne chosen Desk, run at least once on real or sanitised work
08A saved “known-good” copyTwo safe points to go back to, with plain instructions — so a mistake is never permanent

The session is finished when you can do all eight of these, yourself.

  1. Open the correct project.
  2. Ask the AI to read that project’s rules.
  3. Save one article or document into your notes.
  4. Tidy your notes, or ask them a question.
  5. Run your chosen job from start to finish.
  6. Review the output against your own checks.
  7. Find the last saved known-good copy.
  8. Explain, out loud, what stays a human decision.

What you open on Monday

Three things, in this order. Painted here, not screenshotted — on your own screen it is a folder, a notes app and one chat.

A Renaissance library with rolled charts and a compass laid across a working table
1 · The Work OS folderThe control room. Open it first: the map, the rules, today’s list.
A Renaissance reading room, people working at round tables covered in papers and charts
2 · Your vaultWhat you read last week, kept as files you own and can search.
Renaissance merchants conferring over a table of charts and instruments
3 · Your DeskOne job, run once, its output waiting for your approval.
10 / Is this for you?The honest fit

Good fit

You have one job
worth fixing.

  • It repeats weekly or monthly.
  • You can bring a real or sanitised sample.
  • You can decide how that part of your own work should run.
  • You are willing to read the output before it goes anywhere.
  • You have a paid AI plan, a laptop, and two and a half uninterrupted hours.

Not the fit

This is not a list of magic sentences to type into ChatGPT, a coding class, a passive-income promise, a certificate, or a business that runs itself while you sleep.

Do not book this if you want it built for you while you watch — that is T3, and it is priced differently for good reason. Do not book it if you cannot give the session your full attention on your own machine.

AI can draft, sort and organise. You still decide what is correct, private, safe and allowed to leave the room.

11 / Guarantee and boundariesWhat I promise, and what I won’t

The guarantee — T2, Install Your AI Work OS

What I promise.

“If you cannot run what we built by the end of the session, there is no fee.”

  • You leave owning the eight things listed in § 09, working on your own machine.
  • You can run it yourself before we finish — I hand over the keyboard and go quiet to prove it.
  • If you can’t, you don’t pay. Not a discount, not a credit note.
  • Your fee credits 100% into a build within 30 days.
  • Nothing touches your live data on the first pass. Read-only, or a copy.
  • Still broken in week 2, I fix it free. The check-in is the second half of the guarantee, not a courtesy.

The boundaries

What I won’t.

  • A percentage. Anyone quoting you “40% more productive” made it up. If one job leaves your week, that is the win.
  • Revenue, rankings or traffic. I do not know your market or your pricing, and neither does anyone who promises those.
  • That you can let someone go. This removes repeated typing, not judgment.
  • That anything sends by itself. Every Desk stops at a person. Nothing publishes, emails or pays without you.
  • That it never breaks. Tools update. That is why you are taught to fix the small ones.
  • That one session makes you an expert. It makes you someone with a working system and the habit to keep it.

Signed, and stated on this page while it holds

“If you cannot run what we built by the end of the session, there is no fee.”

Dainer DAINER.AI · Kuala Lumpur · T2, Install Your AI Work OS

BoundaryWorking does not mean perfect, revenue-producing, or safe to leave running unattended. Git restores tracked local files; it does not restore an external account, a cloud database or a third-party service. Your own skills and private files stay yours — no customer package copies another person’s material.

12 / Before you askStraight answers

Questions I get every time

Ask the awkward
one first.

I would rather lose the sale than write a number on this page I cannot stand behind.

I’m not technical at all. Is this for me?

Yes. If you have never opened a terminal, we build your Work OS and your Desk in Claude or ChatGPT. You work by clicking and typing normal sentences. Codex stays in the technical track and is only added if your chosen Desk needs it.

Is the founding rate real, or is it always “ending soon”?

Five clients at RM800, then RM1,500. When it’s gone it’s gone, and this page will say RM1,500 instead. I’d rather tell you your number than run a fake countdown.

Why only one Desk? I have four problems.

Because four half-built desks help nobody. One finished Desk teaches you the shape, and the shape is what you reuse. The shape is what you reuse when you build the second Desk yourself — that is the point.

What does it cost to run after the session?

You need a paid plan for the assistant your track uses. That may be Claude, Codex or the ChatGPT plan you already have. Obsidian itself is free for personal use. Prices and limits change, so I confirm your exact account cost before we build.

If a connected service would add another paid plan, I tell you before we touch it.

Is my business data safe?

Everything we build lives in your account, on your machine, under your login. I don’t keep copies. On the first pass nothing sends, deletes or edits — read-only, or a duplicate. If you’re in a regulated business, say so up front and we work on sample data.

Does the Web Clipper check whether an article is true?

No. It saves the page as a Markdown file with its source, author and date. Judging the source is a human step, and it is one of the review points we write into your rules.

Is Git a backup of my business?

No, and I won’t call it one. Git gives you a known-good point to return to for the tracked files in your Work OS — your rules, templates, scripts and small assets. It does not restore an email account, a cloud database or a third-party service. Secrets, browser profiles and large raw media stay out of it deliberately.

Can you come to my office?

Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, yes. Elsewhere in Malaysia, online works just as well — you are on your own laptop either way. The workshop runs online, so location doesn’t matter for it.

What happens if I can’t run it myself at the end?

I fix the blocker before we finish, and if you still can’t run it, you don’t pay. I’d rather absorb an afternoon than have you tell people you paid for something you couldn’t use. That has to be the deal or the guarantee means nothing.

Can I bring my team instead of coming alone?

That’s the workshop — RM3,888 a head, eight people minimum, twelve maximum, run online. Bringing four people to a one-to-one session doesn’t work; everyone ends up watching one person type. Online also means each person builds on their own machine instead of fighting a venue’s wi-fi, and we keep going until each of them can run it.

Next step · founding five

Tell me the job.
I’ll tell you if it fits.

Message me with what your business does, the one job that keeps coming back, and which Desk you think it is. If the Sprint is the wrong fit for you, I’ll say so.

12 questions · Full result before any contact · It can say “not yet.”

Direct line: +60 16-669 9831 — WhatsApp only, no booking funnel, no sales call first.