The full curriculum
Nine tracks, ~45 lessons. Each lesson is a short YouTube video + a written walkthrough. Videos roll out on the content calendar. Items marked live are published. Items marked next update teach features that arrive in askTheodor 0.9.283.
Track 1 · Your first hour
- Install & first run live
- Meet Theodor, your chief-of-staff live
- Hire your first worker live
- Give your first task & approve the result live
Track 2 · Build a company
- Companies as neighborhoods · Company OS (brand voice, banned words, compliance, vendors) · Org roles & reporting lines · Goals that track themselves live
Track 3 · The workforce
- Anatomy of a worker (soul · profession · skills · brain · tools · memory · budget) · The 95-profession catalog · Picking a brain per worker · Tool allowlists & least-privilege · The Elite tier live
Track 4 · Knowledge
- The three memories (private · tribe · library) · The Library & RAG · Always-on SOPs · Training a worker in the Academy · Learned skills live
Track 5 · Getting work done
- Plans & multi-step delegation · Tasks, review & “done” · Kafenio (your team’s tavern) · Theodor as orchestrator live
- Let a secretary take messages next update
Track 6 · Autonomy & proactivity
- Routines (morning brief, weekly report) · Proactive Theodor · Autonomy levels & the kill-switch · Approvals / human-in-the-loop live
Track 7 · Connect everything
- Local MCP servers · The 45-server remote connector directory · OAuth sign-in (Slack, Google Workspace, DocuSign) · Preferred providers & models live
- Run your team from WhatsApp (the phone console) · Your own Telegram bot in 5 minutes next update
Track 8 · Scale & operate
- Multi-company at scale · Fleet / headless runner (a worker on a VPS) · Kiosks · Backup, export & privacy live
- See what your VPS did today (🔭 Inspect & ✏️ Rename) · Keep an audit trail (the security log) next update
Track 9 · Playbooks by who-you-are
- Solopreneur “company of one” · Small agency · E-commerce store · Real-world services · Content creator — how this Academy is made live
- Hunt leads across DACH on autopilot next update
New lessons land weekly. Want to be told when? Watch the repo, or follow along in the community.