The problem: you remember the meeting is at noon. You do not remember what you promised them in March. Preparing is memory work, and memory work is exactly what an assistant is for.
The template
An hour before any meeting, send me a short brief on whoever I am meeting: our last three exchanges, what each of us still owes the other, what has changed since we last spoke, and the one question I should ask. Keep it to something I can read in ninety seconds.
Say it once to your assistant — yours comes with a name, and you can change it — and it arrives before every meeting after that.
The catch, and it is the whole game
A brief is only as deep as the memory behind it. A fresh chat window knows nothing about March. An assistant that has held your email and your papers for months knows exactly what you promised, what they promised, and what quietly changed.
That build-up of memory is the most valuable thing your assistant makes. Which raises the question worth sitting with: where should something that valuable live? Our answer is a home with written rules. Your assistant's memory builds in an encrypted space of your own, in our private cloud on Amazon Web Services — scoped to you alone, never pooled, never shared, never used to train anyone else's model. You can ask for a complete copy of your material at any time, and when the service ends, the space and everything in it is deleted, confirmed to you in writing.
Field notes
- The "one question I should ask" line keeps earning its place. It turns a summary into an advantage.
- Add "and flag anything I promised and have not delivered" if you want the brief to keep you honest, not just informed.
Digital Twin Pro is where that memory can build up for years — one assistant, yours alone, answering from your own records, with the citation to show which file each answer came from.
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Updated September 2026.
Your own AI. Your own material. One assistant, yours alone.
$9,995 the first year — everything included. $5,995 each year after. The first year costs more because it contains the preparation — your archive prepared and loaded by hand under a written scope, and your assistant built on it — as well as the first year of the service; every year after is the service running.
Or add the Archive Assessment first — $1,950, credited in full
You order and pay at checkout; we write back within days — a decline returns every dollar, and until our letter confirms the year you may withdraw in writing. From that letter the year is final, and it arrives on the date the letter names. Prefer to write to us first?