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Run your crew every day, for less.

How I run my own: the server, the model routing, my skills, the agents and all 20 blueprints.

What you get, in three parts

Run it

Always on, and cheap

How I run mine

My setup end to end: the folders, a normal day, what the crew does alone and what waits for me.

A server and its costs

A curated list of servers with prices checked when published, plus hardening, backups and remote access.

Model routing

Which model does which job, so planning gets the strong model and bulk work gets the cheap one.

The money boundary

Spending caps, virtual cards with limits, and why the agent never sees your card number.

Give it skills

The ones I use every day

Plain prose for emails

Drafts that read like a person wrote them, checked for the habits that give machine text away. I wrote these.

Cold email

Research a lead, write a short first email, keep a log, and send nothing without your yes.

Marketing

How I set up the open-source marketing skills I use, plus an ad-policy check before anything goes to review.

Gmail and research agents

An inbox agent that drafts replies, and a research agent that cites every claim it makes.

Point it at a business

Twenty worked examples

All 20 blueprints

Idea, skills needed, setup, steps and monthly tool costs for each. See the list.

Design, build, deploy

How the crew designs a site, builds it in Astro and puts it live on Cloudflare after you approve.

A look inside: the routing lesson

Most of the cost of a crew is which model does which job. This is the table the lesson starts from.

Who gets which model
JobModelWhy
First mate, planning, reviewsOpusMistakes here cost the most
Crewmates writing code and copySonnetStrong enough, about half the price
Lookups, sorting, summariesHaikuBulk work at a fraction of the cost

Plain about what this is

It is

  • A setup that does real work while you are away
  • The exact way I run mine, costs included
  • Twenty businesses written down as work a crew can do

It is not

  • A promise of income. Results depend on your idea, market and decisions
  • The official Firstmate course. Firstmate is Kun Chen's free, open-source project
  • A done-for-you service. You make the calls; the crew does the work

Before you buy

Is it really one payment?
Yes. $49 once, with no subscription. If a monthly update pack comes later, it will be optional and sold separately.
Should I do the free course first?
Yes. Full access starts where the free course ends, with a working setup. If the free course does not work on your computer, full access will not either.
Firstmate changes often. Will this go stale?
Lessons are web pages, so I update them in place when Firstmate changes. Each one shows the date it was last checked.
Do I need a server?
Not to start. Your own computer works while it is on. The server lesson is for when you want the crew working while your laptop is closed.
How do I get in after paying?
We email you a sign-in link. Click it on any device and you are in. There is no password to remember.

Keep the idea and the decisions. Hand over the rest.

Get full access

$49 once, 14-day refund. Or start with the free course.