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AI Guide to Business exists because most "AI for business" advice is theory. This is a working engineer showing real builds, step by step.
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Hi, I'm Derek.
I spent 30 years building software in Silicon Valley: retail, chips, and payments, on teams of two and on floors of two hundred. I have shipped the right thing and I have shipped the wrong thing for a year. Now I run my own company and build with an AI coworker every single day.
In 2026 I shipped a live Roblox game in 16 days, 226 commits, every one of them with AI in the loop. Then I built this site the same way. That is what I teach: not prompts, but how to hire an AI, hand it real work, review it in five minutes, and ship.
Two audiences. Founders who want a business, not a chatbot. And kids and beginners who want to ship their first game in 30 days with a parent beside them.
Watch on YouTube →Three industries. One habit: ship.
- RetailSystems at scale
Software for a retailer with thousands of stores. Learned that the right thing shipped late loses to the good thing shipped on time.
- ChipsQuality and process
Testing and release discipline for a chipmaker. Learned how to make "done" mean done, which is now the whole skill of reviewing an AI.
- PaymentsMoney and trust
Full-stack work for a payments company. Learned that the client asks and the server decides, a rule kids now hear in week three.
- NowSolo, with an AI coworker
Psios LLC in Morgan Hill, California. Products shipped with Claude Code daily, and this school to show others how.
Five rules for an AI coworker.
This is the job description my AI reads before every session. Students write their own in Lesson 1.
Think before building
State the assumptions. Ask when confused instead of guessing quietly.
Simplest thing that works
Only what was asked. No speculative features, no clever abstractions.
Surgical changes
Touch only what the task touches. Match what is already there.
Verify before "done"
Show the evidence. A claim without a test is a guess.
Nothing ships unreviewed
The AI drafts. The human decides. Every time.
Get in touch.
Questions about a course, the community, or working with me 1-on-1: here is where to find me.
Work with Derek
Consulting, fractional CTO work, private build reviews, and your AI coworker set up with you. Limited seats, through psios.com.
psios.com →YouTube
Comments on any lesson. The free track lives there, and so do the homework threads.
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