ONE DAY | IN PERSON | 12 SEATS

Your systems clock on when you clock off.

You have built assistants that work brilliantly - as long as you are sitting there watching them. The Night Shift is the day they start working without you.

LIVE
03:00 Overnight scan
08:00 Reports send
12:00 Follow-ups go
17:00 Daily digest
23:00 Backup runs

Five jobs. None of them need you awake.

The day after the workshop

Everything you built dies when you shut the lid

This is not a prompting problem. You already know how to write a good instruction. It is a plumbing problem, and nobody teaches it.

It only runs when you run it

Open the laptop, open the app, paste the thing in, press go. It works every time - on the days you remember. The hours you were promised only come back on those days.

It breaks quietly

The one time it fails is at three in the morning, and nothing tells you. You find out weeks later when a customer asks why nobody ever got back to them.

It lives on one machine

Your laptop is now the whole business. It sleeps, it travels, it runs out of battery, it goes in for repair. The work stops with it every single time.

Before you book

This is the second day, not the first

You need something already built to bring with you. That is the whole prerequisite, and we would rather say it now than take your money.

Book this if

  • You have already built an AI assistant that does something useful - at Build Day, at another workshop, or on your own
  • There is at least one job you would want running every day without you
  • You are happy to spend the day hands-on-keyboard rather than taking notes
  • You can bring the thing you built, on the laptop you built it on

Do not book this if

  • You have never built an assistant - start at Build Day, then come back
  • You want somebody else to do all of this for you - that is The Front Door, and it is a better fit
  • You are looking for an introduction to AI - this is not that day
  • You want to watch rather than build - there is no back row

If you are not sure which side you are on, ask us before you pay. We will tell you honestly, and we would rather turn you away than have you sit through a day that was never going to help.

What we cover

Seven parts, one working day

Every part comes out of a real migration - twenty jobs moved off one laptop onto a server, with real money and real customers attached. Including the parts that went wrong.

01

What should actually move

An honest audit of what you built. Some jobs need a person to make a judgement call. Some are just "do this at eight". Only the second kind belongs on a server, and most people are surprised how few of theirs need a human at all.

02

Where it should live

Your machine or a server, and the honest cost of each. Moving everything is the wrong instinct.

From the real thing: of twenty-seven jobs, seven were deliberately left on the laptop. A backup that lives on the machine it is backing up is not a backup.
03

Move the memory before the job

A job that remembers what it already sent will, on a fresh machine with an empty memory, cheerfully do all of it again.

The mistake that made this part 03: a job was test-run on the new server before its history came across. With no record of what it had already done, it queued a real post to a live account. Caught and deleted before it published.
04

Get your keys out of your files

Where passwords and access keys should actually live, and the simple check that stops a job starting at all if one is missing. A job that runs without its key does not crash - it fails silently at three in the morning and nobody notices for weeks.

05

Schedules and time zones

Why an eight in the morning job fires at six the previous evening if you miss one setting. Why "every Tuesday" means a different day on different systems. And how to prove your schedule is what you think it is before you trust it with anything that matters.

06

Knowing when it breaks

Silence is not success. Silence is usually a dead job. You will set up one message that arrives every morning telling you what ran overnight and what did not, so you find out from your phone rather than from a customer.

07

The bill, honestly

What this actually costs to run. A flat monthly subscription covers a surprising amount; paying per use is a completely different bill, and it is the one that catches people out. We go through the real numbers from a live setup - including the four jobs that were deliberately left alone, because moving them meant starting to pay for something that was free where it was.

What you leave with

Working, not theoretical

You do not leave with notes and good intentions. You leave with one of your own jobs running.

1One of your own jobs running on a server, on a schedule, watched running at least once before you go home
2A morning message that tells you what ran overnight and what failed
3Your keys and passwords out of your files and stored properly
4A written checklist for moving the next one yourself, in the order that avoids the mistakes above
5An honest list of which of your jobs should never move - and why leaving them where they are is the right answer, not a failure
Where this comes from

This is not a syllabus somebody wrote. It is a migration that actually happened.

Over two days in August, twenty scheduled jobs were moved off a single Mac and onto a server: overnight market scans, a daily digest going to a paying group, client reports, social posts, follow-up chasers and a nightly backup.

Seven jobs were deliberately left behind, with the reasons written down. Through the whole move, not one paying customer received a duplicate message - which is the part that takes planning, and the part that has nothing to do with AI.

20jobs moved off one laptop
7left behind on purpose
2days, start to finish
0duplicate messages sent

"I test-ran one job on the new server before I moved its memory across. It had no record of what it had already sent, so it queued a real post to a live account. I caught it and deleted it before it published. That near miss is now part 03 of the day."

Rizal Mockram, Pancake Pixels - from the migration log

The mistakes are the point. A migration story with nothing going wrong in it has been tidied up, and the tidied-up version is no use to you on the day yours breaks.

The price

One day. Twelve seats.

Smaller than Build Day on purpose - this one is hands-on-keyboard the whole way through, and twelve is the most that can be helped properly in a day.

The Night Shift
For people who have already built something
ONE DAY
$1,797
In person, Melbourne. Maximum 12 seats.
  • All seven parts, full day
  • One of your jobs live before you leave
  • Your morning health message set up
  • The written checklist for the next one
  • Lunch and the recording included
Register interest
BEST VALUE
Build Day + The Night Shift
Build it on day one, make it run on day two
BOTH DAYS
$2,497
Normally $3,094. You save $597.
  • Everything in both days
  • No prerequisite - you build it with us first
  • Same room, same people, both days
  • Come to Build Day first, then decide
  • Lunch and recordings for both
Start at Build Day
Done for you
For people who would rather not own any of this
FROM
$4,500
We do the move for you, start to finish.
  • You do not attend anything
  • We audit, move and test every job
  • Health reporting set up and watched
  • Handover and documentation
  • Scoped on a call before you commit
See The Front Door

All prices in Australian dollars, excluding GST. A run needs a minimum of five people to go ahead - if it does not fill, you choose another date or take a full refund, your call. Server costs are yours and are paid directly to whoever hosts it, usually somewhere between ten and twenty dollars a month.

Where this sits

Three ways up, and you can stop at any rung

Build Day You build it. One day, from nothing to a working assistant. $1,297
The Night Shift It runs without you. One day, from your laptop to a server. $1,797
Done for you We do the whole thing. You approve it and get on with your work. from $4,500

Plenty of people come to this day, get halfway through part 02, and decide they do not want to own any of it. That is a perfectly good outcome and we will tell you what it costs to have it done instead. Nobody is talked up a rung.

Being straight with you

What this day is not

-It is not an introduction to AI. If you have not built anything yet, Build Day is the day you want and this one will go over your head.
-We do not write your automations for you. You bring what you built; we make it run.
-Your running costs are not included. They are small and they are paid directly by you, not through us.
-Nobody watches your jobs for you afterwards. You will leave able to watch them yourself, and if you would rather we did it, ask and we will quote it.
-Anything that genuinely needs a human to decide is not going on a server, and part 01 is largely about telling those apart honestly.

The list is deliberately specific. A day that claims to cover everything usually covers nothing properly.

Register your interest

Tell us what you have built

No deposit and no pressure. A person reads every one of these and replies honestly, including when the honest answer is that this is the wrong day for you.

Please check the questions highlighted below.
Your business, or your role. Optional.
A sentence or two is plenty. This is the part we actually read.

No deposit is taken and no seat is held by this form. A run needs five people to go ahead, and we will come back to you with dates.

Got it, thank you.

We will read what you sent and come back to you personally, usually within two working days. If The Night Shift is not the right day for you, we will say so and point you somewhere better.

Start at Build Day instead

You said you have not built anything yet, so The Night Shift would go over your head - it starts from the assumption that you already have something working. Build Day is the day you want first, and the two together are $2,497.

See Build Day

Register your interest

Tell us what you have already built and we will tell you straight whether this is the right day for you. No deposit, no pressure, and a genuine no if it is a genuine no.

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