You do the client work. This does the firm work: the outreach, the proposals, the pipeline, the filing, and the remembering.
Nothing goes out without your review. Installed into Claude Code, Anthropic's AI application, on your own computer.
An agentic staff with a complete org chart of functional roles, a chief of staff and an executive assistant, integration with your current stack, and a firm-wide brain that remembers your state and stays fresh, so you never file or update documents by hand. RBD., a one-person advisory firm, runs on exactly this every working day; the complimentary manual documents it all before you pay.
ChatGPT answers questions. This runs the firm.
Agents advise, skills execute, routines recur, and the Brain keeps them all current. Alongside them: a meeting coach for call transcripts, a security auditor for exposed keys. The full manifest →
> systems-engineer: pipeline diagnosis complete > systems-auditor: verifying 5 claims against live state... ✗ claim 1: log path does not exist ✗ claim 2: referenced entry never written ✗ claim 3: tool never actually run ✗ claim 4: fabricated ✗ claim 5: fabricated > underlying state, checked directly: mostly healthy
The Cognitive Mesh from Megan's book, The Intelligence Organization, at firm-of-one scale. Everything your firm knows and does, as one unified intelligence every seat reads.
You say what happened once, in your own words. Every decision, finding, and action files itself into the right document. You never update files by hand, and the next session every seat starts current.
GraphRAG in plain files: retrieval reads exact facts and relationships from your firm's knowledge graph, not the closest fuzzy match a vector database returns. The pricing seat reads your actual rate card, not a paraphrase.
A manifest names which files load for which work, and the system audits itself against what sits on disk, so the brain stays fresh and stale references get caught. A correction is written where it will fire next.
Hover or tap any skill for the design logic inside it.
cosYou open each day knowing the top three things that deserve you, and what to ignore.
Every decision reaches you framed, with options and a recommendation. The seat filters and drives; it never decides, and it never chases you.
assistant-charterYour calendar, drafts, and follow-ups are handled, and nothing sends without you.
A written charter separates what you owe others (the assistant) from what you are deciding (the chief of staff). Every outbound stops at a draft.
dumpYou say what happened once, in your own words, and every piece lands where it belongs.
A routing table names which file owns which kind of fact, so nothing is logged twice or filed nowhere. A fresh dump outranks any older record.
retireSessions end clean, and the next one starts already briefed.
A closing ritual moves only what earned keeping into permanent memory. Short sessions restarted clean compound; one long session drifts.
capability-scoutYou find out what the system can do that you are not using yet.
It reads your actual usage against the installed inventory and names the gap, so the machine you paid for does not sit idle.
your-voiceA note to a specific person sounds like you wrote it, because the register maps to the recipient.
Voice is mapped per relationship, not one house tone. The last ten percent of every draft is edited by you, and that stays the rule.
co-writingLong documents get written with you, never silently rewritten for you.
Your own sentences are never changed without a veto. Every proposed edit is listed beside the original, and the structure comes from your motion, not a template.
concrete-proseDense drafts become sentences a reader can act on without translating them first.
The test is who does what. It hunts abstractions sitting where a person or a named thing belongs, because that is why readers bounce, not length.
house-voiceEverything you publish reads like one firm wrote it.
Register and banned-word rules are enforced by a small program at save time, not by anyone remembering them.
newsletterFinished research becomes an email your reader opens and finishes.
One finding is re-cut for the reader receiving it, and every figure stays traceable to its source file, so nothing goes out you cannot defend live.
post-sessionA client working session becomes a finished, sendable package the same day.
Each deliverable copies the format of the last document that client accepted, so what ships matches what already worked.
site-styleEvery new page lands consistent, indexed, and quotable.
One navigation standard plus structured data on every public page, so answer engines can retrieve and cite it. A working lead source, proven once already.
gtmAn offer is pressure-tested by four seats before it goes on sale.
The seats are read-only and every price is a recommendation until the owner agrees. The pricing seat argues against the funnel seat on purpose.
proposal-strategyYour bid argues what moves the buyer's score, not what fills pages.
Strategy is set before prose. Effort concentrates on the factors the buyer weights, in the order the panel reads.
proposal-voiceYour proposals read like the ones buyers already chose.
The register is derived from 558 pages of public McKinsey and Gartner proposals. Median sentence 21 words, zero contractions in the whole corpus.
rfp-responseYour response lands in the buyer's own structure, where evaluators can score it.
Submission documents keep the buyer's section names in the buyer's order, because panels score with a checklist and findability beats cleverness.
grant-writingGrant applications speak to funders in a funder's terms.
A separate lane from contracting, because a funder reads for mission fit where a contracting officer reads for compliance.
scope-adversaryYou sign knowing what the scope will actually cost you.
It reads your agreement the way the client will read it in month three, and prices every unpriced ask before your signature turns it into unpaid work.
key-accountYour most important relationship gets a staffed team of its own.
A context keeper stays separate from the writer, so advice comes from current facts on file, not from a memory of them.
qaNothing ships with a claim that fails a live challenge.
A fast mechanical check runs on every save and a slow judgment pass runs on request. Both, never just one.
bid-reviewYour draft is scored before the buyer ever scores it.
Defect passes run on every bid because they never stop finding. Scoring panels run only where the buyer published weights, because scoring saturates.
legal-qaYour agreement is attacked before the other side gets the chance.
One seat checks your standing protection list, one simulates opposing counsel, and one rewrites your asks as rules that benefit every party, so they survive review.
distillA pile of one-off observations becomes a standing rule.
The pattern is written into the exact place it would fire next, so a lesson costs its price once.
boardA decision gets argued before the money is spent.
A standing contrarian seat is built to disagree on purpose, and the disagreement lands on the page where you read it, not after the spend.
model-cost-optimizerRoutine work stops running on premium rates.
Each task routes to the cheapest model that passes the task's own check. Escalation requires a measured failure, never a hunch.
system-overviewAnyone can see your whole machine on one page.
The map regenerates from the files themselves, so it cannot drift from what is actually installed.
ui-ux-pro-maxAnything with an interface ships at a professional standard.
Design is decided against a written standard, so quality does not depend on taste on the day.
world-class-web-appWeb work ships production-grade, and done means verified.
Build standards carry their own verification steps, so a finished claim is a checked claim.
Megan Starkey is CEO and Principal Consultant of RBD. and the author of The Intelligence Organization. She built this to run her own practice first, posted what it replaced, and the replies asked how. The complimentary manual answers in full before you pay.
Built alongside a full client workload, logged and indexed. You skip the build.
| Component | The benefit | Honest anchor |
|---|---|---|
| Chief of staff (intake and routing) |
New information files itself. | A $99/mo tracking tool still leaves you sorting. This sorts. |
| Advisory board (standing contrarian seat) |
A standing second opinion, before you commit. | The live version sells at $1,500/mo. This ships the pattern. |
| Go-to-market team (offer, pricing, research, design) |
Four seats pressure-test every price and pitch. | One hour of this sells at $2,500. This ships the seats. |
| Systems team (architect, auditor, contrarian) |
Nothing is done until something checks it. | The live version is the $750 Build Session. This ships three roles. |
| Wave, the outreach engine (wave skill, Apps Script label system) |
Reviewed outreach waves send and track themselves. | Sells alone at $97. Included here. |
| Working skills (28, proposal strategy to the daily dump) |
Repeated judgment calls run the same way every time. | Priced like RBD.'s own $129 templates, five of the 28 alone are $645. |
| Memory & routing architecture (knowledge graphs, starter doctrine) |
What you learned the hard way governs next time. | Taught as a course, $249. This ships the finished structure. |
| Install guides (from curriculum delivered to paying clients) |
The walkthroughs paying clients received. | Already delivered inside paying engagements. |
The five smallest anchors alone, $750 + $645 + $249 + $99 + $97, add to $1,840. The $1,500-a-month board and the $2,500 go-to-market hour stay out of the sum. All of it, assembled: $297, once.
Early buyers keep this price as the system grows.
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Digital delivery; all sales are final, per the Terms of Sale and Refund Policy. In place of a guarantee, everything in the box is described on this page and, in more depth, in the complimentary manual you can read before you pay. If anything is missing or broken on arrival, email ops@rbdco.ai and it gets fixed the same business day.
$297, once. Assembled for your firm from three answers.
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