Guides, workshops and e-books on running AI yourself: your own agent, your own automations, your own cloud and your own hardware. Most are still being written. Each section links to what can be read on this site today.
Workshop
Setting up your own agent
Email to join
Putting an agent to work for one person or a small team: installing it, connecting it to a chat app, giving it memory and tools, and deciding what it may do without asking.
This workshop runs on seven agents set up that way. The software underneath is Hermes Agent, which is open source.
Guide
Automating recurring work
In the making
Handing recurring work to software: a report every morning, a file sorted when it arrives, a post drafted on a schedule.
Some of that is an agent with a schedule. Some of it is a plain workflow with no model in it, which costs less and is easier to check. The guide covers how to tell which one a job needs.
Guide
Leaving Big Tech, one service at a time
In the making
Keeping your files, your conversations and your models on machines you control.
In practice that is three things: a cloud of your own for files, calendar and chat, a model that runs locally, and open-source software you can inspect and move. The guide takes them one service at a time.
The members’ cloud of this workshop is built this way.
Guide
A local AI setup on a small budget
In the making
Running a language model on hardware you already own or can buy second-hand. The limit is video memory, and quantisation shrinks a model until it fits.
In August 2026 this was measured on the workshop’s own card, which has 4 GB of video memory. A model of one billion parameters ran beside image generation. A model of four billion parameters, quantised to 4 bits, fitted once the card was otherwise free.
E-books
The first volumes
In the making
Books researched and written in the workshop with AI tools. The first volumes are in the making.
The research pages under Projects show how they are checked: each claim keeps the grade its source earned, and what is unknown is listed at the end.
Write to info@jo-cor.com or ask in the Telegram group, opens in a new tab. Say which guide or workshop you want.
No prices are set yet. When one is, it is printed beside the product.
