$ bring your own context

Your AI is brilliant. And completely amnesiac.

It has read the entire internet. It has never read you: your inbox, your files, your calendar, the real shape of your week. This is a free five-lesson course on giving your AI a durable memory of your actual life, work, and taste.

byoc · ~/signup · run

$ subscribe --course lararium --free

Five lessons, one every couple of days. Unsubscribe anytime, one click.

5
lessons
1 / ~2 days
cadence
~7 min
each
$0
forever

// the problem

Same question. Two different AIs.

The model is identical. The only difference is whether it has read your life first.

> how should we price the new feature?
context: none

Consider value-based pricing. Survey your customers, segment by willingness to pay, and A/B test three tiers. Most SaaS lands on a good, better, best structure. You could also try a freemium funnel.

// generic. true of everyone. useful to no one.

context: loaded

You floated usage-based billing in March and the customer survey killed it: three of your top five accounts said predictable monthly cost was why they left Vendor X. Keep the flat tiers. Put the usage meter on the enterprise plan only, where Acme already asked for it.

// knows your March. knows Acme. knows the answer.

manifesto.md
/*
 * You should never introduce yourself to your own AI twice.
 *
 * Prompting is a skill. Context is an asset.
 * Only one compounds.
 *
 * Memory isn't a feature you wait for.
 * It's a file you write. This course teaches the file.
 */

// three layers

A brain is just three files you keep honest.

tree ~/context
~/context
├── persistent.md   # who you are. always true.
├── project.md      # what you're building now.
└── perishable.md   # this week. expires fast.

persistent.md

Who you are, how you work, what never changes. Write it once, it pays out on every conversation forever.

project.md

The thing you're building this quarter. The stack, the deadline, the decision you already made and hate re-explaining.

perishable.md

This week's noise. What's due, who's waiting, what broke. Cheap to write, cheap to throw away.

// how it works

Three moves. One afternoon.

  1. 01

    Clone the scaffold

    Stand up a markdown brain on your own machine. No database, no keys, useful the same day.

  2. 02

    Point it at your life

    Wire the watchers to your accounts, one at a time: email, files, calendar, messages.

  3. 03

    It reads before it answers

    Every reply now starts from your real week instead of a blank slate. That is the whole trick.

// curriculum

The five lessons.

ls -l ./curriculum

total 5

  1. -rw-r--r--01_clone_the_shrine_boot_the_brain.mdClone the shrine, boot the brain

    Get Lararium onto your machine and stand up a markdown brain your AI actually reads. No database, no keys, useful the same afternoon.

  2. -rw-r--r--02_feed_it_your_email.mdFeed it your email

    Wire the first watcher so your AI stops guessing and starts reading the inbox you actually live in.

  3. -rw-r--r--03_drive_and_your_files.mdDrive and your files

    Point it at your documents so 'find that contract' stops meaning 'go dig through folders for twenty minutes.'

  4. -rw-r--r--04_calendar_and_messages.mdCalendar and messages

    Hand it your schedule and your texts so it shows up to every conversation already knowing your week.

  5. -rw-r--r--05_keep_it_fed.mdKeep it fed

    Memory, daily digests, and the discipline that keeps the whole thing alive instead of rotting after week one.

// the fork

Build it yourself, or have it installed.

Same system either way. The only question is whose hands do the wiring.

door_one · do_it_yourself

Clone it. Free. Open source.

The whole scaffold is on GitHub. Follow the five lessons, wire your own watchers, own every file. This is the course.

$ git clone github.com/kylnor/lararium
door_two · done_for_you

Or Elorati installs this for you.

We wire the same system to your accounts and hand you the keys. Zero setup, nothing to maintain, done for you.

$ elorati install --everything

// what a brain file looks like

Not magic. Just markdown you keep current.

~/context/persistent.md
# Who I am
- Role: founder, ships more than she meets
- Building: usage-based billing for the API
- Stack: Next.js, Postgres, a lot of opinions

# How I work
- One thing at a time. Rough first, sharp second.
- Say the tradeoff out loud, then decide.

# Standing context
- Team of 4. Runway to Q2.
- Enterprise deal with Acme in flight.

// who it's for

Built for people who push their AI.

builders

You live in a terminal. This is your dialect already.

power users

You push your AI hard. Give it something to push against.

founders

Your context is the business. Stop retyping it every session.

the impatient

You want it to already know the question before you finish typing.

// faq

Questions, answered.

>Is it actually free?

Yes. The five-lesson course and the Lararium scaffold are free and open source. The paid option only exists if you would rather we install the whole thing for you.

>Does my data leave my machine?

No. The brain is plain files on your own disk. The watchers read your accounts locally and write markdown. Nothing gets uploaded to us.

>Do I need to be a developer?

You need to be comfortable running commands in a terminal. If that is not you, the Elorati door installs and wires the same system for you.

>How often are the emails?

Five lessons, one every couple of days. First one lands the moment you sign up. Unsubscribe anytime in one click.

byoc · ~/signup · run

// start

Teach it once. It remembers.

Lesson one lands the second you sign up. The rest follow every couple of days. Free, forever.

Five lessons, one every couple of days. Unsubscribe anytime, one click.