- 5 steps, in order.
- 1 evening for the first install, Email Triage.
- 70% confidence floor: below it, the AI employee stops and hands to a person.
What are the five steps of the INSTALL method?
The INSTALL method has five steps, in this order.
| Step | What you write | What it produces |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Find the seam | The handoff that costs the most, not the one that annoys you most | One handoff to own |
| 2. Write the job | The task, inputs, output and every decision it may make alone | A written job description |
| 3. Give it the Business Brain | Twelve short sections on your business | Context it reads before it acts |
| 4. Set boundaries and escalation | What it may touch, who it hands to, on which signal | A clean handoff to a named person |
| 5. Read Friday, change one thing | One change to the Business Brain or the job | An install that compounds |
Step two has its own guide on how to write the job description.
Which step do most people skip?
Most people skip step three, the Business Brain. Its twelve sections hold the context an AI employee needs, what you sell, who buys it, your voice, your policies and the exceptions you always make, so if you filled them in tonight, what would it know by morning that it guesses at now?
How is the INSTALL method different from writing a prompt?
A prompt asks for one output; the INSTALL method hires the AI into a job that runs every day. Most AI advice is step two with the other four missing, so of your last two years of subscriptions, which one was ever given a job in writing?
What has the INSTALL method produced on real money?
The INSTALL jobs come from paid engagements run by hand first. The Sales Close job carries the pattern behind Frank Kern's $41,253 in three days, from buyers of an $8,600 program who said they could not afford it, through one $2,500 offer and no new ad spend, so which of your buyers heard no with nothing to say yes to next?
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Questions people ask about the INSTALL method?
How long does the first INSTALL method install take?
Half an hour on the Business Brain starter, one evening installing Email Triage, the first hire, and thirty minutes on Friday for the first two weeks reading its log.
Do I need a developer to use the INSTALL method?
No. The book installs the first AI employee with your own AI account and access to the inbox you want it to read.
Does INSTALL stand for anything?
No. It is not an acronym; the name is the instruction, to install an AI employee into one handoff.
Where is the INSTALL method written down in full?
In INSTALL, Jon Weberg's $7 book of 245 pages, with all eight job descriptions and the governance rules.