Each pillar is stated plainly first, then in Jenn’s words from the note she wrote for this page.
1
Managerial experience
Working with an agent resembles managing a new colleague more than operating a tool. The builder sets the standard, explains the reasoning behind it, and writes down what was learned so the next session starts from there. Jenn ties this to mentorship and the idea of making yourself unnecessary, which her musing On Mentorship develops. Applied to agents, the aim is a task the agent can carry alone, which frees the builder’s attention for the judgment calls that stay with a person.
“the three pillars you need are managerial experience and that goes with just truly believing in mentorship and the idea of making yourself unnecessary that's what your training your agents to do, to take over, for the cognitive offloading aspect of it.”
Jenn, October 2026
2
Pattern detection
An agent works from the patterns a builder makes explicit: what a good result looks like, what a mistake looks like, and which rule wins when two conflict. Each pattern written down is one less thing the agent has to guess. Jenn compares the work to cognitive behavioral therapy and to a ski slope: the context is already there, and the builder carves the runs it should follow.
“…the more that you think about inputting the patterns that you see around you the better off you are. it's kind of like CBT like you have all this context you need the ski slopes to be carved out in the way that you need it to be.”
Jenn, October 2026
3
Experience
Experience is how a builder knows whether the system is working. It shows up as redundancy, a second check before anything ships, and as a sense of when a result is actually right. Much of it is retrieval: earlier judgment calls, made in different roles, brought forward clearly enough for the agent to act on them.
“how are you building in redundancies, how do you know when it's actually going right…”
Jenn, October 2026
“…whether it was the inner child for the sillier one, the academic for more of the research, did you access and put them front of stage well enough for the agent to really understand and internalize what you wanted it to do.”
Jenn, October 2026
How the pillars connect
The loop
Each round of work feeds the next. The four stages below repeat for as long as a project runs.
Stage 1Direct the agents
→
Stage 2The agents become more like you
→
Stage 3The patterns evolve
→
Stage 4The slopes get steeper
↺ Then back to stage 1: direct the agents
“And you've now created these slopes and they've gotten even steeper. Instead of just having the fresh snow, you've now given it direction and guided it in the way that you need it to be.”
Jenn, October 2026
Each pass through the loop adds experience, and experience shows where the system needs a tweak, where it should branch, and what it should avoid. Growth brings obstacles. How quickly a builder adjusts to them is the part Jenn names as the missing piece.
“…as the system scales, you're going to have obstacles. So how agile are you? that's really just a missing piece to it.”
Jenn, October 2026
Appendix A
Brand kit
How the guide formats its pages and how it wants the message to land. Every entry below is already in use on this site.
Palette
Forest #3b412d
Ink #2f3e2e
Moss #4a5d3a
Paper #faf3e8
Ivory #fff5eb
Lime #e6f163
Chili #d6452d
Type
Instrument Serif for headings and quotations. DM Sans for body text, labels, and buttons.
Writing rules
No em dashes.
Headlines name the thing; they do not argue a point.
The page explains in an expository register, and quoted words stay quoted.
Every claim carries a source.
Counts and dates sit beside their source.
How the message lands
The reading guide Strategic Communication / The Arc covers this, chapter by chapter. Three chapters apply most directly: Clarity Through Structure, Empathy and Relevance, and Strategic Storytelling.
Neuroscience
This appendix will take its evidence on how a message is received from Jenn’s Booth coursework, as those notes are written.
“I think an appendix A would be like a brand kit. How are we formatting? How do you use neuroscience to convey our message and all those other business strategies that we're learning in class.”
Jenn, October 2026
Appendix A. Version 1, 2026-10-01.
The starter packet holds the rest.
A starter constitution, five skills to copy, and a folder structure. Free, no account, nothing to install.