Lesson 6 · 18 min
This group is where the trust roles show up the most. Guides, courses, community and cohorts form the Trainer's ladder. The 90-day program is mentoring. Making the improvised app solid is review. And the large company is closed by training the internal team. The building that's left has lost its price, and the source says so in plain words.
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Goal: design the Trainer's ladder and recognize where the Mentor (90 days), the Auditor (improvised app) and the Consultant (large company) come in.
Seven move up, three are building. Click each box.
In a large company, handing over responsibility clearly is worth more than the monthly fee you give up.
One per role.
Opening the community with a price leaves you with a few people in an empty space. Bring people in for free, let the activity happen, and only then add paid layers.
Before creating your own program, go work as an instructor in one that already exists: you see the economics from the inside.
Only charge an amount if you believe you deliver that much in return several times over. The selection filters for the candidate, not just for you: turning away someone who won't get results protects both sides.
Before you define the format, ask three past clients what would need to be included.
Look for someone who posted about having built an app with an easy tool, and comment with a useful question about what usually breaks later.
You're not only talking to the person who posted: you're talking to the silent people who read the comments and have the same problem.
Being the eternal person responsible for a large company's system means stepping into an endless queue of internal politics and legal liability.
Train the internal technology team, hand over documented work, and put in writing what they need to maintain and review.
The sheet classifies the group. The question opens the conversation about the improvised app.
CLASSIFICATION SHEET · group <20 to 29> · <date> For each opportunity: - Dominant verb: teach / diagnose / review what exists / guide those who build / build - Box: Trainer / Consultant / Auditor / Mentor / Building - If Building: which service does it become part of? ______ - Sentence from the source that supports the classification: "______" - Passes the 5 criteria? Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Rule: if you can't find a sentence that supports the box, the classification is a guess.
Congrats on the app. One practical question: when you need to change <a rule / a field / a screen>, who does that today, and what usually breaks along with it? I ask because that's the point where quickly built apps get stuck most later on.
Two exercises.
Fill in the sheet for all ten opportunities and move the rows into your filter table.
Done when: all 10 opportunities have a box, a dominant verb and a sentence that supports the classification; the 3 buildings say which service they become part of.
Find a post by someone who built an app or automation with an easy tool. Adapt the template comment and post it.
Done when: the comment is posted, asks a specific question about what breaks later, and doesn't offer any service.
4 questions.
Question 1 of 4
You want to open a community about AI. What is the right order?
Question 2 of 4
Can the 90-day program for owners be your first product?
Question 3 of 4
Why did the voice agent land in the building box?
Question 4 of 4
How do you leave a project at a large company without becoming a hostage?
Choose an option. The explanation appears after you answer.