You've tried ChatGPT or Claude. You've gotten some useful outputs. But somehow you still end up re-explaining context, correcting the same mistakes, and spending more time editing AI outputs than just doing the work yourself.
Meanwhile, you're caught between two traps:
There's enormous potential here, but you can't seem to unlock it.
“This course is an excellent vehicle to both learn the mechanics of how to use AI, but more importantly, where it will fit in my life and how to use it effectively.”
John Breitinger
Real Estate & Community Dev. Advisor
“This course will both build your capacity to work with AI and expand your perspective on what it means to be a human at work with AI.”
Sheri G
Nonprofit Leader
When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, I made an unusual decision: I stopped teaching. After training 6,000 students over six years in Building a Second Brain, I stepped back. The technology had shifted too fundamentally to keep teaching the same methods with a clear conscience.
I spent the next three years deeply immersed in AI. And what I found surprised me.
Most people think better results come from better prompts, better tools, or smarter models. They don't. Better results come from better context.
“This course is about integrating AI into your individual Second Brain system, not about adopting someone else’s workflow.”
Brian Jordan
Program Manager
“If you are looking for a fast-track way to understand how to use AI to your best advantage, sans hype and overwhelm — this is it. You’ll have gifted teachers, thoughtful leaders, and brilliant company.”
Ann H
Energy Medicine
Here's how my team uses it every day:
Not with a better model. With better context.
This isn't tips and tricks. It's a system. And once you build it, it compounds.
“This is a great program if you are excited by what AI can do, but you don’t want fancy automations and multiple agents to do the work for you. Tiago’s thoughtful approach expands what you can do with AI by understanding context, but keeps you, the human, firmly in control.”
Alison
Healthcare Innovation Consultant
“If you work in a thinking capacity where your personal ideas, observations, and experiences can add real value to your team, AISB is a great course to learn how to structure your notes and help them come alive via AI when needed.”
Ed McCormick
Strategic Advisor & Capital Architect
Founding Cohort Graduates
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“AI is my smart, well-briefed companion now. Not a tool, not a ‘super prompt’, not some tech gimmick — but a true supporter in navigating mental load, helping me to focus on what truly matters in life.”
Anika Dominik
Senior Advisor, Inclusion Strategy & Stakeholder Management
“This is actually my first time ever to complete any course/cohort/whatever kind of material I register in!!!!!”
Jalal El Bsat
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Foundational
The AI Second Brain system: See the complete system end-to-end before diving in — so every component has a place and you always know what to build next.
Choosing your AI tools: How to pick the right LLM, harness, interface, and model for how you think and work — and stop tool-hopping for good.
Your Master Prompt: A portable "operating manual" that gives any AI your role, values, goals, and standards — so every interaction starts with context, not from scratch.
Intermediate
PARA for the AI era: Turn your notes and files into modular context bundles AI can use on demand — so you stop copy-pasting and start giving your AI a long-term memory.
Your capture system: A notetaking practice designed to feed your AI Second Brain — so every note you take compounds into leverage for every future project.
Mastering the day-to-day: A repeatable workflow for getting consistently high-quality results from any LLM, including when to use AI and when not to.
Advanced
Your AI Board of Advisors: Specialized advisor roles — financial strategist, health coach, domain expert, devil's advocate — you can consult for better decisions on the things that matter most.
High-leverage use cases: Deep research, voice-first capture, document analysis, multi-domain synthesis — the workflows with the biggest real-world payoff, demonstrated live.
Integration and the big picture: Bring every component together into a working system, and zoom out to the bigger questions about clarity, taste, and judgment that only you can answer.
“Every lesson in this course taught me something that I did not know was possible. Each lesson was built upon the prior lesson. The homework we were given included building blocks (skills, plugins) that were very useful to accomplishing the assignments. And every completed assignment was useful to me in the work I do.”
Allan Montezon
Retired, Senior Advisor to Non-Profit Agency
“It’s three weeks, and the sessions build on each other in a way that actually compounds. Week 1 gives you the Master Prompt. Week 2 shows you why the Master Prompt alone isn’t enough. By the time you’re done, you have a system — not just a tool you use occasionally.”
Maggie
Director of Procurement & FP&A
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You'll leave with a 90-day roadmap and a working AI Second Brain that has the context to help you implement it — turning your plan into an execution system, not just a document.
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The cohort is your on-ramp. Your year of Second Brain Membership keeps the momentum going — with weekly implementation sessions, Show & Tells with Tiago, and a global community of real-world practitioners building and refining their systems alongside you.
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Architects, engineers, consultants, marketing professionals, COOs. You manage complex information for a living, but can't seem to manage your own. AI should be your biggest leverage point, but instead, it's just another tool you haven't had time to set up properly.
Content creators, coaches, startup founders. You need systems to produce, but the system-building itself keeps eating into your production time. You want AI that works with your creative process, not one that adds another layer of complexity to it.
You're reinventing yourself, maybe in your 40s, 50s, or 60s, and the digital skills gap feels real. You don't need another beginner tutorial. You need a framework that meets you where you are and makes your experience an asset, not a liability.
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If you have ADHD or think differently, tool complexity hits harder. The promise of AI is real for you, maybe even more than for most, but only if the system is built to reduce friction, not add it. This program is designed around structure that works with how your brain operates.
“This program is a great way to reset or start your journey with how you can leverage AI to improve your Second Brain. Whether you’re brand new to AI or a seasoned vet, you will walk away with tangible improvements to your personal system and, more importantly, your understanding of how to leverage AI going forward. It’s not just a ‘step by step’ guide on how to set things up, but a focus on the foundational concepts that should outlast any AI model improvements or tool updates.”
Bob O’Malley
Product Manager
“If you, like me, have always wanted to build a second brain, but felt overwhelmed — do yourself a favour and take this course. You will walk away with the knowledge of how to build a second brain using AI. And the AI skills you learn are totally transferable to all other areas of your life. I’m so glad I invested!”
Fiona P.
Property Investor
“This course not only taught me how to use empowering tools and techniques, but also how to show up in my body and human experience when interacting with this powerful technology.”
Tim Hobson
Educator & Ghostwriter
“I have been experimenting with AI for the past year or so but really had no clue about what I was doing or how to get the most benefit out of the technology. This advanced my knowledge base and my ability to work with AI in a productive manner at least 10-fold.”
Elaine
Multi-Faceted Professional
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Most AI content is built on hype and urgency. We're building on something else.
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One well-designed system beats a hundred prompting hacks. You'll build infrastructure that gets better the longer you use it, not a bag of tricks that expires next month.
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There are real tradeoffs, hidden limitations, and tons of tacit knowledge needed to make AI work well. We'll be honest about what AI can and can't do, so you can trust what you create.
84% of the world’s population still hasn't adopted generative AI. If you pay for any AI product, you're in the top 1% worldwide. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build something meaningful, calmly and deliberately.
“This program was extremely well thought out, painstakingly curated, and intentionally built to identify the complexity of navigating AI without losing our humanity. The concepts are so well-structured and built upon systems that help one organize their own life independent of AI, but done so in a way to help you be more intentional about your areas of focus and to ultimately lead a more fulfilling life. The team is so effective in delivering truly amazing ROI. They do so with sincerity, humility, and passion.”
Matt Margulies
Business Operations Leader
“There are many AI courses out there but none with the sensitivity and holistic perspective Tiago points to. It is about keeping your humanity while empowering yourself to utilize AI to maximize your potential.”
Pat
Mental Health Advocate, Caregiver and Financial Professional
I paused teaching for three years to go deep on AI, rethinking my entire approach from first principles. The AI Second Brain represents everything I've learned.
I'm the author of Building a Second Brain and The PARA Method, both published by Simon & Schuster and translated into more than 25 languages. Together they've sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide.
Through Forte Labs, I've trained tens of thousands of professionals from 70+ countries. My YouTube channel has 376,000+ subscribers and over 18 million views on topics like productivity and AI. More than 150 companies and organizations have brought my methods in-house, from startups to multinationals like Genentech, Toyota, and Nestlé.
500K+ Books sold
30,000+ Professionals trained
70+ Countries & languages
700K+ Followers & subscribers
“Tiago is a key thought leader of our time. In a course like this, you’re able to peek behind the curtains of the wizard, meet his team and have access to the evolving tools and systems that continue to elevate him as a thought leader.”
Mark Semler
Medical Device Innovator
“Lean into this. Tiago is brilliant — & I don’t say that lightly. Tiago’s human-centered approach keeps the focus where it belongs & the Forte team provides the container that I can do my growing in. 10/10.”
Rex Casteel
Cohort 2 will run from Sep. 17 to Oct. 8, 2026.
Pricing for Cohort 2 hasn't been set yet. Waitlist members will get first access to enrollment when it opens.
We can't guarantee it. Cohort 1 was taught live by Tiago personally, and details for Cohort 2 are still being finalized.
No. Everything is built on those foundations, but we'll get you up to speed. If you have used them before, this is the next chapter.
The program is taught using Claude (including Claude Cowork and Claude Code). Everything we cover can be applied to other AI tools like ChatGPT or Gemini, and we include guidance on how to choose the right tool for how you work. But for live demos and hands-on sessions, we'll be using Claude so we can go deep rather than trying to cover everything.
Didn’t see the answer to your question? Reach out to support@fortelabs.com.
“Go for it — and go in with an open mind about what ‘it’ actually is. Something about the process of connecting your tools, building your agents, and organizing your life into PARA creates unexpected clarity. You start to see the shape of your own thinking in a new way. That’s harder to put on a course description than any specific skill, but it may be the thing you walk away with most.”
Christiana Houck
PhD, Founder & Principal Instructional Designer, Houck Design Works
“This program will have you thinking not just about AI, but about yourself, your work, and your relationship to the world around you in new and exciting ways. I give it a 10/10 and it is definitely a fantastic value!”
Rian
Data Scientist and Outdoor Enthusiast
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