You bought ChatGPT.
Now give it a job.
A shiny new AI plan is a lovely thing. I’d like it to have something useful to show for itself by Friday.
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There’s a particularly enjoyable stage of getting a new AI tool. You ask it a strange question. You try a picture. You discover it can write code, untangle a spreadsheet, or take an alarming interest in your sourdough.
Then there’s the business you actually run. An event needs announcing. Some project notes need turning into an update. You’ve got a job to organize, and the useful facts are distributed across three documents and your head.
That’s where I want the new plan to earn its place.
We built the Fort Rock Agent Setup Kit to help with that first stretch: give your AI a place to work, teach it the business, finish one useful job, and come back to work it can find again. It’s $20 once, used with your own eligible ChatGPT account.
Give the clever thing a desk.
A business folder sounds less exciting than artificial intelligence. I have made my peace with this. A folder with the right notes in it can be an excellent piece of technology.
Put your current offer there. Explain who you help. Keep a few approved sources, the draft you’re working on, and a note about what happens next. Now the agent has somewhere to look before it starts being confident.
The kit walks you through Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app. You choose a local business folder and the files it can use. Enter a few details in the guide and you can download a prepared starter folder with your notes, next step and instructions already together. Already have a business project? Keep it. The guide helps you work from there.
Your guide saves your place. The business work stays in the folder you choose.
Start with a job you recognize.
The first assignment should be small enough to check and useful enough to keep. An announcement, a short report, a work plan. Something you can open and say, “Yes, that’s what I needed. Change this bit.”
Fictional practice example / Arts & events
The open-studio announcement.
- Bring the notes.
Meet the Makers. Two artists. A confirmed date and time. The street address still needs checking.
- Ask for a draft.
“Turn these notes into a website update and a short email. Leave a placeholder for the address.”
- Review what comes back.
Check the names, date and missing details. Save the useful draft before sending or publishing anything.
The kit includes that fictional practice material, plus community-project and office-work examples. You can use your own task from the beginning. You don’t need a website, a contact database or a beautifully written business plan.
You do need to check the facts. An impressively formatted invented address is still an invented address.
Next week matters too.
A good first draft is encouraging. Opening a new chat and finding the right notes, the last draft and the next action is where this starts becoming useful as a working system.
That’s part of the kit. You try a fresh conversation. Ask the agent to find the saved work. Make a small correction and check that the current notes and draft agree. The method gives your next session a better starting point.
Then you can prepare one regular job from the work you’ve already checked. Perhaps a weekly event draft or a project update. Choose the sources, the schedule and what a finished result should contain. In a supported account, you review and activate it in your own app, then inspect its first run. Local work needs the computer and app available.
The official scheduling guide explains current availability. The kit helps you prepare and verify the handoff; buying it doesn’t switch on an unattended service.
Why I’d add this to a new plan.
The exciting part is how much these tools can do. The useful addition is a way to put that capability into your particular business: the right facts, a sensible first job, a result you can inspect, and a way to continue.
That’s the case for this kit. You get a guided route, editable messages, a personal starter folder, recovery instructions and checks along the way. You keep the downloaded edition and the work your agent creates. There’s room to look at the instructions and change them as you learn.
My favorite outcome would be quite ordinary: you open your computer, the work is where you left it, and you know what to ask for next.
The practical part.
$20 one time. Self-guided. Bring a supported Mac or Windows computer and your own eligible ChatGPT account with Codex desktop access. Check that Codex opens before buying. A phone alone isn’t enough for this edition.
Your subscription, AI usage and plan limits remain separate. The kit doesn’t include a hosted AI runner or personal configuration. If you want us to configure a workflow with you, our hands-on setup is a separate service.
After checkout, sign in with the ChatGPT account using the same email to open your kit. Keep your downloads. There’s no automatic renewal. Refund requests within 14 days and the full purchase terms are here.