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The Operator OS Starter Kit · Free

Stop typing into dead docs.

Operators don't fill in blank templates by hand. They talk to their AI, the AI holds the context, and the artifact lands. Every kit below is built that way: read the short framing, copy the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, and answer its questions out loud. It interviews you, you talk, it builds your filled version and keeps it. Grab what you need. It's all free.

These are not blank docs you fill in. Read this once.

i.
Turn on voice
On your phone, open your AI and tap the mic. On a computer, use built-in dictation (Mac: dictation key · Windows: Win + H) or Wispr Flow. The prompts work typed too, but talking is the unlock.
ii.
Read the framing
Each kit has a one-line "what it does" so you know what you're building and why before you start.
iii.
Copy the prompt, talk it out
Paste it into your AI and answer out loud. It interviews you, pulls the real answers out, builds the finished artifact, and holds it so it's there next time.
Start Here · Install the OS (S1)

First, give your AI a brain you control.

The only setup with knobs to turn. Stand up the base layer — a platform that remembers you, your profile in its memory, your work in one queue, and a daily rhythm. After this, everything is conversation. The full S1 walkthrough lives free inside The Long Game.

01.

First-Context / Operator Profile Interview

Serves S1 · L3

What it does: Lets your AI interview you and write a clean profile of who you are, what you sell, and how you work — the first real layer the whole system stands on.

Copy this into your AI
You are my operations partner and you are onboarding to my business. Interview me to build a profile of who I am and what I do. Ask me your questions in small batches, three or four at a time, not all at once, and wait for my answers before the next batch. Cover these areas in order: (1) who I am and what I am building over the next 12 months, (2) what I sell, my price, and the exact person who buys it, (3) how I work, my time, my strengths, what I avoid, and how I want you to talk to me. When you have enough, stop interviewing and write a single clean profile document titled "Operator Profile" with clear sections for Who I Am, What I Sell And To Whom, and How I Work. Write it in plain language, in the first person as if I wrote it about myself, and keep every specific detail I gave you. After you write it, ask me what is wrong or missing so I can correct it.
02.

Memory File Starter

Serves S1 · L4

What it does: Compresses your profile into a context block you paste into your AI's permanent memory, so every new chat starts warm — no reintroducing yourself.

Copy this into your AI
Take my Operator Profile and rewrite it as a tight context block I can paste into your permanent memory or custom-instructions setting. Keep every load-bearing detail, who I am, what I sell, my buyer, my price, my constraints, and how I want you to communicate with me. Cut anything that is not useful for you to know on every future task. Write it as direct statements to you, the AI, in second person, for example "You are working for [name], who runs [business]." Keep it under 1500 characters if you can.
03.

Operating Cadence Card

Serves S1 · L7

What it does: Installs the daily rhythm — morning briefing, working handoffs, end-of-day capture — so your OS compounds instead of going stale. Run your first capture right now.

Copy this into your AI
Run my end-of-day capture with me. Ask me three things, one at a time: (1) what did I get done today, (2) what new tasks or follow-ups came up, (3) did I learn anything about how I want to work or be helped. As I answer, update my queue, mark done items, add new ones with priorities, and if I told you something durable about how I work, add it to my permanent context so you remember it going forward. When you are done, show me my updated queue and confirm what you saved to memory.

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Ship One Thing · The Weekend Challenge (F1)

See the pile. Empty your head. Ship the proof.

In a weekend you go from scattered to operating: inventory what you run, pour everything into one queue, and ship one real artifact by Sunday night. F1's full module-by-module build is free in The Long Game.

04.

Operator OS Inventory

Serves F1 · Module 1

What it does: Surfaces the pile you already have — tools you run, routines you run, and the gaps where the answer to "where does X live?" is "in my head." Those gaps become your build targets.

Copy this into your AI
You are my operations interviewer. I am building an inventory of my business called "My Operator OS, Inventory" with three sections: (A) Tools I run today, (B) Routines I run today, and (C) Gaps.

Interview me one question at a time, conversationally. Do not dump all the questions at once. Start by asking me what my business does in one sentence, then walk me through:
- Section A: every paid app and every free app I use weekly. Help me group them by purpose (client comms, project management, accounting, content, automation, storage, other). Push me toward a complete list, most operators have 12 to 20, so if I name only a few, ask what I'm forgetting.
- Section B: every recurring thing I do on a calendar cadence (weekly, monthly, quarterly, daily). Ask for the honest version, not the version I wish I ran.
- Section C: anywhere my answer to "where does X live" was "in my head" or "nowhere." Each of those is a gap. Surface them as I talk and confirm them with me.

When you have enough, produce the finished three-section inventory in full, clean and organized. Then ask if I want you to hold onto it for the rest of this weekend so we can use it Saturday and Sunday.
05.

Queue Starter — Your One-File Operating Surface

Serves F1 · Module 2

What it does: Empties everything you're carrying into one queue — the single source of truth for "what's on my plate." Not four apps, not your head. One place your AI can read, prioritize, and later execute against.

Copy this into your AI
You are helping me empty my head into a work queue. I'm going to talk through everything I'm currently carrying: every commitment I've made, every thing I intend to ship, every loose end. It will come out messy and out of order. Your job is to catch all of it and turn it into clean queue rows.

For each thing I mention, capture it as a row with: ID (a short slug I can say out loud, like "client-invoice"), Title (one sentence deliverable), Priority (P0, P1, P2, P3, ask me if you're unsure), Status (default PENDING), and Owner (me unless I say otherwise).

Interview me to pull more out, most operators are carrying 50+ in-flight commitments without realizing it, so when I slow down, prompt me: "what about client work? follow-ups? content? admin? things that have been nagging you?" Aim to surface 30+ rows on the first pass.

When I'm done, output the full queue as a clean table I can paste into Notion, Airtable, a Sheet, or a markdown file. Then offer to hold it as my single source of truth.
Build Each Layer · Build Your Operator OS (F2)

Four layers. Build the thinnest one first.

Every business has four layers whether you named them or not: Surface, Capabilities, Knowledge, Direction. Map them, find the thinnest, and build up from the bottom — then wire your first automation and watch your business do work while you weren't looking. All nine F2 lessons are free in The Long Game.

06.

Operator OS Layer Stack Worksheet

Serves F2 · L1

What it does: Maps your four layers honestly and rates each SOLID / THIN / MISSING, so the thinnest layer — your build target — becomes obvious.

Copy this into your AI
You are my operations interviewer. I'm mapping my "Operator OS Layer Stack," which has four layers: Surface (what I see in the morning), Capabilities (what fires without me), Knowledge (where decisions and notes live), and Direction (my 12-month outcome and quarterly priorities).

Interview me one layer at a time, conversationally. Pull the honest, not-aspirational answer out of me with questions like:
- Surface: do you open one screen in the morning or five?
- Capabilities: what actually fires without you, truthfully?
- Knowledge: where do your decisions and client notes live, or do they live nowhere?
- Direction: can you name your 12-month outcome and your top three priorities this quarter in one breath?

After each layer, based on what I told you, propose a one-word rating: SOLID, THIN, or MISSING, and confirm it with me.

When all four are mapped, output my full layer stack with the rating on each, then tell me which layer is thinnest, that's the one I build first. Offer to hold this so I can come back to it.
07.

Single-Wire Automation Planner

Serves F2 · L5 · also S1/P2

What it does: Plans one cross-tool automation end-to-end before you touch a tool — source, trigger, action, side effect. The first wire is the belief shift: you've now watched your business do work while you weren't looking.

Copy this into your AI
You are helping me plan one automation. Ask me one question at a time to pull out the four parts: (1) the event source (the thing that happens), (2) the trigger (the listener), (3) the action (what the system does), (4) the side effect (the result I can verify). When we have all four, output them as a clean four-line plan I can build from, and flag anything that sounds like it'll be tricky to wire.
Know Your Direction · The Brand Spine in a Weekend (F3)

Your brand is four rows and a belief.

Not a logo. Outcome, Known For, The Doing, The Learning — plus the one contrarian belief you can prove you live by. Get them straight and the logo becomes obvious. F3 walks you through all three sessions, free in The Long Game.

08.

Brand Spine — Ralston 4-Layer Worksheet

Serves F3 · all 3 lessons

What it does: Authors your top two rows — Outcome (where you're headed in 12 months) and Known For (the lens you carry into every room) — with your AI holding you to a real standard and pushing back on vanity answers. (Rows 3-4 and the contrarian belief follow in the full course.)

Copy this into your AI · Rows 1-2
You are my brand-spine interviewer. Tonight we're writing the top two rows of my brand spine: Outcome (where I'm headed in 12 months) and Known For (the lens I carry).

Interview me one row at a time, conversationally, and hold me to a high standard:
- Outcome: have me finish "Twelve months from now, the thing I want to be true is ___." A good Outcome names people and a result, not a vanity number. If I say something like "100k followers," push back, that's a scoreboard, not a destination. Pull out the version I'd be proud to say at a dinner table.
- Known For: have me finish "When someone in my world has a problem, the angle they expect from me is ___." A good Known For is a way of seeing, stated plainly, that travels across more than one kind of business. If mine is too narrow (like "I do Facebook ads"), push me to raise it a level until it travels.

Rough is fine, I'm pouring a slab, not framing a doorway. When both rows are drafted, read them back to me clean, and hold them so we can add the next two tomorrow.
Find Your Gap · Score Your Founder Stack (F4)

Score 14 steps. Find the one cracked foundation.

A business that books, qualifies, converts, and feeds itself is a stack, not a pile of good parts. Score all 14 in order, then find the lowest-numbered weak step — that's your P0 gap, the crack holding everything above it up. The full F4 workshop is free in The Long Game.

09.

The 14-Step Founder Stack Scorecard

Serves F4 · workshop

What it does: Acts as a tough, fair inspector that scores your business 0-3 across the same 14 steps CV installs for clients, in order, then names your P0 gap — the lowest-numbered weak step that everything above depends on.

Copy this into your AI
You are my Founder Stack diagnostic interviewer. I'm scoring my business against 14 steps grouped in five phases, on a 0-to-3 scale (0 = missing, 1 = winging it, 2 = working with rough edges, 3 = dialed). I'll tell you each step as I go.

For each step I name, ask me how it actually works in my business right now, then help me land an honest score 0-3. Be a tough, fair inspector: if my answer sounds inflated, ask the follow-up that tests it. Keep a running list of my scores in stack order, do not sort them by size.

When I've scored all 14, do the diagnosis: find every step I scored 0 or 1, then of those pick the one with the LOWEST step number, that's my P0 gap, because lower steps carry everything above them. If I have no 0s or 1s, my P0 is my lowest 2, earliest step number first. Tell me my P0 step and help me write one sentence: "My P0 gap is Step ___, [name], because everything above it depends on it being solid." Then hold my scorecard and P0 so I can re-run it next month.
When You're Ready · The Operator's Library (Paid)

Then build your own Diana.

The free track gets you operating. The paid Operator's Library is where you clone CV's actual revenue and ops systems — a working AI-COO that dispatches tasks and runs inside guardrails, a three-rung offer ladder, an auto-quote funnel. Here are two real prompts from inside it, grab-and-go. The full library + live office hours unlock with Premium ($29) inside The Long Game.

10.

Approval-Gate Tiers Template (T0-T3)

From P3 · L4

What it does: Builds a four-tier permission system so your AI operator acts freely on safe work (T0-T2) and stops cold on dangerous work (T3). You go from approving everything to approving almost nothing.

Copy this into your AI
You're helping me write a four-tier approval gate for my AI operator. Use my "must never do without me" list from my job description as the starting point for the dangerous tier. Interview me to sort my operator's work into four tiers:
- Tier 0, just do it: reading, drafting, research, anything trivially reversible. No asking, no logging.
- Tier 1, do it but log it: safe internal changes, draft edits, test runs.
- Tier 2, do it inside a budget, stop at the cap: anything spending money or touching semi-real systems. Help me name the hard caps (a daily dollar cap, a "safe-to-message contacts only" rule).
- Tier 3, stop and ask every time: the fireable offenses, sending money, cold-contacting clients, destructive deletes, anything irreversible.

Push me to be generous with Tier 0 and Tier 1 (that's where the leverage is) and strict with Tier 3 (that's where the risk is). Then help me define the Tier 3 halt format my operator uses every time: name the action, one sentence why, options A/B/C with a recommendation, the rollback if the recommendation fails.

Output the full four-tier gate, then fold it into my context file as the "what you're allowed to do" section, replacing the placeholder. Hold the updated file.
11.

1+1+1 Offer Ladder Worksheet

From P2 · L7

What it does: Builds your three-rung offer ladder — downsell, core, upsell — where each rung makes the next the natural choice. The discipline of exactly three is the proof.

Copy this into your AI
Help me build my three-rung offer ladder, exactly three, no more. Interview me for: my downsell (the cheap qualifier, which is the audit I spined earlier in this course), my core (my flagship install, with a real price), and my upsell (ideally recurring, the 'keep doing this for me' offer). For each rung, draw out the one sentence explaining how it qualifies the buyer for the next rung up. If a rung doesn't load the next, tell me it's a stray product, not part of the ladder, and push me to fix it. Output the three-rung ladder with the qualifying line under each, and hold it.
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