

Building your CoS Personal OS
Being a Chief of Staff means holding more context than any single person should. You're the one who remembers what was decided three meetings ago, who owes what to whom, and which fire is actually a fire.
This is a small, relaxed working breakfast session on building a Personal OS -- a system that uses AI to hold the context you can't, surface what matters, and give you back the headspace to think instead of just react.
What we'll cover:
How to build a daily briefing that actually reduces your morning anxiety (not adds to it)
Using AI to triage across email, Slack, calendar, and meeting notes -- before you've opened any of them
Turning messy meeting context into structured decisions, open loops, and accountability
Live demo of a working Personal OS built on Claude, Granola, and a handful of scripts
What you'll leave with:
The beginnings of your own personal OS - or an evolution on what you've already built, and a clear picture of what's possible.
Who this is for:
Chiefs of Staff, Heads of Operations, or anyone whose job is "hold everything together and make sure nothing falls through." You don't need to be technical. You do need to be curious about what AI can actually do for the way you work.
About the hosts:
Jo Barrow is Chief of Staff at Granola, the AI notepad for meetings. She's spent two years at the intersection of AI product and operations - and built the Personal OS she needed to scale her responsibilities with the company.