An AI helper that runs on your machine. No bill.
Always on, works while you sleep, built from a huge library of skills — with the safety handled right.
You want a helper that works while you sleep — not a meter that keeps running while you do.
Cloud helpers are always on and always charging, and they run on someone else’s computer under someone else’s rules. You’ve got the hardware and the itch to own the whole thing yourself. What you don’t have is a clear path from a bare computer to a helper that’s actually doing work — or a straight answer on how to set it up safely.
Because the scary part is real.
Read three setup guides that contradicted each other and stalled at the install
Wanted round-the-clock automation but didn’t want it loose on your computer
Heard “it can act as you” and, fairly, got nervous
A helper with your access that runs on its own is genuinely powerful — which is exactly why safety is the main event, not a footnote. Without a habit of checking add-ons before you trust them, and a rule that anything risky needs your say-so first, “runs on its own” quietly turns into “runs unwatched.” That’s the part most guides skip.
Here’s what you walk away able to do.
Wake up to an agent that worked overnight and texts you a brief
from “Working while you sleep”Run a capable helper on your own machine, with no monthly bill
from “Getting set up”Give it a personality and standing rules it actually follows
from “Personality and memory”Add new skills from a library of thousands — safely
from “The add-on library”Trust it on its own, knowing it can’t quietly go off the rails
from “Keeping it safe”Go from a bare computer to a working helper in one weekend
from “Your first weekend”You can put this off, sure — but a month from now you’ll still be doing it the slow way, wishing you’d started today.
We made this because we kept watching it not click.
Smart people — people who are genuinely good at their jobs — were paying for these tools and using maybe a tenth of what they could do. Not because they weren’t trying, but because nobody ever showed them the part that actually matters. So we sat down and wrote that part: the moves that work, the ones we’d hand a friend who asked. No filler, no hype, just the stuff we’d actually use ourselves.
From bare computer to working helper — with safety up front, not buried at the end.
From a bare computer to a working helper in a weekend. You get the clean setup, tasks that run while you sleep, where to find add-ons that extend it, and the safety steps that let you trust it on its own.
Day-one setup: from a bare machine to your first chat
Patrols that work while you sleep — and only wake you when it matters
The huge library of add-ons, and how to pick the safe ones
Safety up front, not buried at the end — because it acts as you
Three steps, and you’re reading in under a minute.
Tell us where to send it
Just your first name and email — that’s the whole form. No hoops, no credit card, nothing to install.
It’s yours in a second
The guide downloads right away, and we’ll pop a copy in your inbox too, so you’ve always got it when you need it.
Try one thing this week
Open it, pick one idea that fits your week, and actually use it. One small win is all it takes to see what this thing can do.
What will you create?
A dozen real things people build with this. Pick one — you could have it working by the weekend.
Wake to a 60-second morning brief: weather, calendar, overnight news
Have an inbox watcher flag the urgent and draft your replies
Set a price watcher that pings you when a flight drops
Get a weekly digest of your feeds and a rival’s changes
Run your smart home off simple “leaving” and “home” texts
Auto-log every receipt to a ledger and file the PDF
Draft your standup from your commits and calendar
Get a daily research drop on your keywords, ranked
Queue cross-posts for each platform, in its own tone
Have it tidy its own memory and unused add-ons weekly
Write your own add-on when the library disappoints
Set a quiet-hours rule so it only wakes you when it’s urgent
…and that’s a fraction of it. Grab the guide and start building.
A few fair questions.
Am I actually going to be able to do this?
Yes. It’s written to be followed, not admired. Every step is plain, the examples are copy-paste, and a simple first-week plan means you’re never staring at a blank screen wondering what’s next.
Will it actually show me how to set it up?
That’s the whole point. It walks you through the setup step by step and assumes nothing — so you end up with the thing actually working, not just a list of features you read about.
Is it too advanced, or too basic, for me?
It meets you where you are. New to this? It starts from the ground and builds up. Already comfortable? Skip ahead to the prompts and plays — they’ll still earn their keep.
How much time is this going to take?
You can read it in an afternoon, and you’ll have something working the same week. It’s built around small wins, not a giant course you start and never finish.
Is this just hype, or does it actually work?
No fluff. It’s the real moves — the exact prompts, the steps, and the mistakes to skip — from people who use this stuff every day, not a recap of a press release.
Is it really free? What’s the catch?
Genuinely free. We ask for your first name and email so we can send it (and the next one when it’s ready). No card, no catch, and one click to unsubscribe.
Set it up this weekend.
Grab the Handbook, install it Saturday morning, and write its first patrol by Saturday night. Sunday you’ll read the log of what it did while you slept. Free, takes a second, yours to keep.
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An independent guide from Prometheus Consulting, for tinkerers with good backup habits. Snapshot as of June 2026; tools move fast — check against current docs. Unofficial: product names are trademarks of their respective owners, none of whom reviewed or endorsed this guide.