Build Your AI Chief of Staff

Samira Sohail

AI product builder, ex-BBC & Newsela

Kate Marshall

AI strategist, cybersecurity ex-SANS

Build a real AI chief of staff with memory, context, agents & guardrails.

You're doing the work of someone with a chief of staff: inbox triage, meeting prep, follow-through, and a dozen other things that used to be someone else's job, except there's no one else.

Prompts and productivity hacks help for a day, then you're rebuilding context from scratch every morning. Agents can finally do the actual coordination work, not just draft text, and most courses haven't caught up.

This course teaches you to build an actual system: a memory layer that remembers your work without re-explaining it every session, agents that read from it consistently, and explicit rules for what your AI can see and touch.

You'll leave with a working daily briefing, a meeting-prep and follow-through system, calendar protection, and three growth builds: a relationship-finding agent, a goal-tracking dashboard, and a market-watch feed. Live, not theoretical, built on your own inbox and calendar across four sessions.

Taught by a product leader who has shipped work reaching millions at BBC and Newsela, and an AI-governance strategist with a cybersecurity background, so the trust and access questions get real answers, not an afterthought.

What you’ll learn

Build the memory, agents, and guardrails that let you operate like you finally have your own chief of staff.

  • Stop automating random tasks

  • Map the work you repeat every week, identify where the information lives, determine what AI should handle

  • Create a written specification for the systems worth building

  • Connect your email, calendar, and docs into one base layer that stays current on its own

  • Build the context layer every agent you create afterward reads from

  • Set a 24-hour sweep so nothing goes stale between sessions

  • Start each day already knowing what happened overnight and what needs a decision

  • Walk into every call, internal or external, with history pulled automatically

  • Track commitments and follow-through so nothing slips between meetings

  • Run a real time audit and protect focus blocks instead of guessing where your week went

  • Track your goals in one dashboard pulled from what you already built

  • Recommend improvements to reach your goals

  • Build a prospecting leads generator tool, activated from your professional network

  • Set up a standing market feed and research agent

  • Scope exactly what your AI can see and touch, read-only first, write access only when earned

  • Monthly permission reviews and a clear offboarding step, not a black box

Learn directly from Samira & Kate

Samira Sohail

Samira Sohail

Product Leader (BBC, Newsela), Founder & Speaker

BBC
Newsela
J.P. Morgan
Bill Silva Entertainment
Kate Marshall

Kate Marshall

18 years in Cybersecurity Training, now AI Strategist and Fractional CAIO

SANS Institute
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Who this course is for

  • Founders, executives, consultants, and solo operators who are doing too much themselves
  • Managers and leaders who want a personal AI operating system
  • Professionals ready to move beyond prompts into real AI workflows

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Samira Sohail & Kate Marshall in a real-time, interactive format.

Online portal access, in addition to Maven

A bespoke online portal access to all course materials for self-paced learning

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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Course syllabus

4 live sessions • 14 lessons

Week 1

Sep 29—Oct 4

    Sep

    29

    Build Your AI Chief of Staff LIVE - L1 (Lesson 1 of 4)

    Tue 9/294:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    L1- Blueprint, Memory Base and Context + Build

    5 items

    Oct

    1

    Build Your AI Chief of Staff LIVE - L2 (Lesson 2 of 4)

    Thu 10/14:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    L2- Build: Calendar and Time Defense & Goal Tracking

    4 items

Week 2

Oct 5—Oct 8

    Oct

    6

    Build Your AI Chief of Staff LIVE - L3 (Lesson 3 of 4)

    Tue 10/64:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    L3- Build: Meeting Prep and Follow-Through, and Market Research Agent

    2 items

    Oct

    8

    Build Your AI Chief of Staff LIVE - L4 (Lesson 4 of 4)

    Thu 10/84:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    L4- Build: Prospecting Agent and Governance Review

    3 items

Schedule

Live sessions

3-4 hrs / week

Two live sessions over two weeks, 90 mins each

    • Tue, Sep 29

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Oct 1

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    • Tue, Oct 6

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Oct 8

      4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Projects

1-2 hrs / week

BUILDS are covered in the live session to follow. You may want to leave time to refine on your own.

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