Each task is one twenty-to-thirty-minute action — the kind of work that ships before the day ends, not the kind that lingers on your todo list. Open it, do it, react ✓ in the cohort channel when it’s shipped.
WEEK 1 · TASK 1
Write Your Watchman's Charter
Five lines. What AI is for. What it never replaces.
Before a watchman is handed a post, he's told what he's watching for — and what's above his pay grade to decide. You do the same with AI before you touch it for real. This is the smallest task of the whole course and the one everything else stands on: name, in writing, what AI is for in your life and what it will never be allowed to do.
Action checklist
- Open Claude (or your tool of choice) and give it no instructions yet — just sit with the blank page for a second.
- Write five lines, in your own words:
- Lines 1–3: what AI is FOR — the work it earns its keep on.
- Lines 4–5: what AI never replaces — the things that are yours to carry as a man.
- Save it where you'll see it daily — phone wallpaper, the inside cover of your journal, taped to the monitor.
- Post one line of your charter in the cohort channel so a brother can hold you to it.
WATCHMAN'S NOTE
If you can't write the charter, you're not ready to run the tool — and that's the first lesson, not a failure. A man who hasn't decided what AI is for will let it decide for him.
SCRIPTURE
Ezekiel 33:7 — "So you, son of man, I have made a watchman... therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me." The watchman is told his charge before he stands his post. Write yours.
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WEEK 1 · TASK 2
Apply the Tiered Autonomy Framework
Classify before you delegate. Informational, Contextual, Sensitive.
The watchman on the wall classifies what he sees before he sounds the alarm — friendly, neutral, threat. You'll do the same with every task before you hand it to AI. Most men hand the machine everything or nothing; the operator sorts first, then delegates only what's safe to delegate.
Action checklist
- Learn the three tiers and what each one means for AI use:
- Informational — facts, drafts, summaries. Delegate freely; verify the output.
- Contextual — anything touching your people, your money, your reputation. Delegate the draft; you own the decision.
- Sensitive — pastoral confidences, family conflict, anything you'd be ashamed to see leaked. AI assists the prep only; the content stays with you.
- Take five real tasks off this week's plate and write the tier beside each one.
- For the Sensitive ones, decide right now what AI will and won't touch.
- Keep the list — it becomes the seed of your Redlines in Week 11.
WHY THIS MATTERS
The breach is almost never the model — it's the man who never decided what shouldn't go in. Classification is the discipline that keeps the wall from being your weakest point.
SCRIPTURE
Luke 16:10 — "He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much." Faithfulness with the small classifications is what earns you trust with the larger ones.
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WEEK 1 · TASK 3
Build Your Watchman's Tool Stack
Two to four tools. One line of purpose each. Empty rows are honest.
A watchman knows every tool on his belt and why it's there. Open the AI Tools Landscape, pick the two-to-four tools that will actually earn their keep across your home, your work, and your ministry, and write one line of purpose for each. The man who picks a deliberate stack defaults less and ships more.
Action checklist
- Open the AI Tools Landscape (the toolkit page) and read the tier ratings.
- Pick 2–4 tools you'll genuinely use this cohort — resist the urge to collect.
- Write one line per tool: "I use this for ______." If you can't fill the line, drop the tool.
- Note which tier each tool sits in so you know your starting points from your specialty picks.
OPERATOR'S DISCIPLINE
A bloated stack is a tell that you're collecting tools instead of using them. Four tools you've mastered beat twenty you've bookmarked.
SCRIPTURE
Proverbs 27:23 — "Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and attend to your herds." Know what's on your belt the same way you'd know your herd. Tools you can't account for own you.
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