​Meet your AI Co-founder

​Two hours to build a working AI protégé - and the method to keep going

​ABOUT THIS CLASS

​Most people using AI are prompting on the fly - getting one-off answers to one-off questions. What they haven't built is a working relationship with an AI that understands their context, knows how they think, and can handle real work without constant hand-holding.

​Dave King has spent years at the intersection of AI, language, and knowledge work - and developed the Protégé Method as a practical framework for exactly this: articulating what you do, deciding what's worth delegating, and training an AI that can actually carry it.

​The question isn't "what can AI do?" It's "what would I delegate to a brilliant intern — and have I actually taught them how to do it?"

​In this two-hour session, the first hour is about articulation. The second is a live build. You'll leave with a working Claude project configured around a real task from your own week - not a demo, not a template.

​HOW THE SESSION WORKS:

​HOUR 1

​Articulation

​Map your week. Separate computer work from knowledge work. Identify the one task worth tackling tonight - and learn the Protégé Method for translating it into something an AI can actually run with.

​HOUR 2

​Build

​Scope it like a brief. Build it in a Claude project. Test it on real work you brought. Show-and-tell at the end. You walk out with a working protégé - and the method to build another one tomorrow.

​TAKEAWAYS

• ​Use the Protégé Method to map your own knowledge work - understand what you actually do, what's worth delegating, and what context an AI needs to do it well.

• ​Separate the tasks that benefit from AI from the ones that don't - and stop wasting time trying to automate things that shouldn't be automated.

• ​Build and configure a Claude project around a real task from your own work - with proper context, skills, and constraints baked in so it performs reliably, not just once.

• ​Learn how to brief an AI the way you'd brief a smart new hire - giving it enough to get started, the right guardrails, and a way to escalate when it hits the edge of its brief.

• ​Leave with the repeatable method - so you can build a second protégé, and a third, without needing to start from scratch each time.

​WHAT TO BRING

​Your laptop and a Claude account - free tier is fine, Pro recommended for the build session.

​Come with one specific task in mind - something from your actual week that involves knowledge work: drafting, analysis, research, synthesis, client communication. You'll be building around it in hour two.

​WHO THIS IS FOR

​Founders & operators

​Doing too much knowledge work yourself and ready to delegate meaningfully - not just prompt randomly.

​Professionals & Knowledge Workers

​Already using AI in bits and pieces and want to build something that actually sticks.

​YOUR INSTRUCTOR

​Dave King

​Partner, Radical Intelligence - founder of The Royals

​Dave is an award-winning innovator and entrepreneur with 20 years building at the intersection of creativity, technology, and AI.

He founded The Royals, one of Australia's most highly-regarded creativity and technology companies, and now leads Radical Intelligence - helping organisations build AI capability that compounds. His work centres on the belief that augmented intelligence lets humans and machines achieve far more than either could alone.