The same setup Collin runs — an AI “Sue” that knows your business and does real work. No code. No agency. If you can follow a recipe, you can stand this up this afternoon.
One Claude account is the only paid part. Everything else installs in a few clicks — no technical background required.
The actual brain. This is the AI that becomes "Sue."
Turns Claude into a hands-on assistant that can read your files, write things, and run tasks. Installs with one pasted line.
A pre-built folder (download below) so you skip the hard part. Comes with the brain's instructions, the LLM-wiki structure, a prompt library, a cheat sheet, and a troubleshooting guide.
Do them in order. Each step tells you exactly what to click and gives you the words to paste — hit Copy and go.
Do these in order. If you already have one, skip it. None of this requires any tech skill — you click installers, and paste one line.
✅ You know it worked when: typing claude --version in the terminal shows a version number. If it says it can't find claude, quit VS Code completely and reopen it — that fixes it 9 times out of 10.
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex
Download the Sue AI Brain Starter Kit (button at the bottom of this page). A .zip lands in your Downloads.
CLAUDE.md, second-brain, prompts.In the VS Code terminal (Terminal → New Terminal), type claude and press Enter. First time only, it walks you through a short setup — nothing here is a trick question:
Now paste the prompt below. It interviews you about your business and fills in everything — who you are, what you do, how you talk, what you want help with. Answer in plain English, one question at a time. The more specific you are, the sharper it gets.
✅ You know it worked when: it starts interviewing you — usually by asking your name.
You are my AI Chief of Staff — my version of "Sue." Read CLAUDE.md and look through the second-brain and prompts folders so you understand how this system works. Then onboard me. Interview me one question at a time about: my name and what I want to call you; my business(es) and how I make money; who my customers are; what a normal day looks like; the 3–5 things I'd most love off my plate; how I like to communicate (direct? detailed?); and any hard "never do this" rules. As I answer, write what you learn into CLAUDE.md and into the memory folder so you remember it forever. When we're done, give me a 5-bullet summary of what you now know about me and 3 things you could start helping with today.
This is the secret to why it gets smart about YOU. Your second-brain folder has two layers: RAW (you dump raw stuff in — meeting notes, docs, transcripts, voice memos) and Wiki (your AI reads RAW and writes clean, organized summary pages you can actually use). You never edit Wiki by hand — the AI regenerates it from RAW. Raw in, organized knowledge out.
Drop any document, note, or transcript into the second-brain/RAW folder, then paste the prompt below. Do this a few times a week and within a month your AI knows your business better than most of your team.
I just added new files to second-brain/RAW. Read everything in RAW, then update the Wiki: create or refresh clean summary pages that distill what matters — key facts, decisions, people, numbers, open questions. Link related pages together. Don't invent anything; only use what's in RAW. Tell me what you added or changed and flag anything that looks contradictory or out of date.
Want it reading your email, calendar, and Drive? Claude has built-in connectors. Go to claude.ai → Settings → Connectors and turn on the ones you use — Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and more. No coding. Because Claude Code signs in with the same account, they show up in your terminal sessions automatically — type /mcp inside Claude to confirm.
Start with just email and calendar. Add more only when you have a reason to. Everything stays inside your Claude account, and you can switch any connector off anytime.
From now on the whole routine is: open VS Code in your ai-brain folder → Terminal → type claude → talk in plain English. That's it. Keep the kit's CHEAT-SHEET.md open your first week (the whole control panel on one page), and if anything acts up, TROUBLESHOOTING.md has the 60-second fixes. Three plays to start with:
Give me my morning brief. Check my second-brain Wiki and memory for anything open or time-sensitive, and (if my email/calendar are connected) what's on today. Then give me: the 3 things that actually move the needle today, anything I'm at risk of dropping, and one question I should be asking myself. Keep it tight.
The pre-built folder that does the hard part for you: your AI’s instructions, the LLM-wiki structure, a full copy-paste prompt library, starter skills, a one-page cheat sheet, and a troubleshooting guide. Download it, unzip it, follow Step 2.
↓ Download the Sue AI Brain Starter KitThree free tools, one Claude subscription, and a folder that gets smarter every time you feed it. No code, no agency, no stack of software bills — one $20/mo subscription covers the brain. Run it for two weeks and you'll wonder how you operated without it.