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Master Waymaker: Build Your Business with AI Agents

The complete beginner's guide to Waymaker. Learn every feature from dashboard to deployment — missions, AI agents, Design Studio, Command Center, workflows, flywheels, and more.

17 lessons in 4 modules

Course curriculum

1

Waymaker 101

Get oriented with the Waymaker platform — your dashboard, navigation, missions, OKRs, and Second Brain.

4 lessons

Welcome to Waymaker — Platform Overview

10m
Free preview

What Waymaker is, the dashboard, key features overview, how AI agents help you build

Welcome to Waymaker — Platform Overview

What is Waymaker?

Waymaker is an AI-powered business building platform that gives you a team of 45 AI agents, a full design studio, marketing automation, and everything you need to go from idea to revenue — all in one place.

Think of it as your virtual co-founding team. Instead of hiring designers, copywriters, marketers, and developers, you work with specialized AI agents who handle each of those roles.

The Big Picture

Waymaker is organized around a simple workflow:

| Phase | What Happens | Key Tools | |-------|-------------|-----------| | Vision | Define your idea and validate it | Missions, OKRs, Cameron AI | | Build | Create your product and brand | Design Studio, AI Agents, Workspace | | Launch | Market and sell your product | Command Center, Workflows, Social Media | | Scale | Grow with compounding systems | Flywheels, Analytics, Community |

Key Features at a Glance

  • 45 AI Agents — Creative, business, marketing, and coaching specialists
  • Design Studio — AI-powered visual asset creation (logos, graphics, brand kits)
  • Command Center — Your mission control for launching and marketing
  • Workflow Builder — Drag-and-drop automation with AI decision points
  • Second Brain — Your knowledge hub for storing everything you create
  • Flywheel Designer — Map out self-sustaining growth loops

How AI Agents Help You Build

Instead of staring at a blank page, you chat with agents who specialize in exactly what you need:

  • Need a logo? Talk to the Design Agent
  • Need marketing copy? Talk to the Copywriter Agent
  • Need a business plan? Talk to the Strategy Agent
  • Feeling stuck? Talk to the Flow Recovery Agent

Every agent output gets saved automatically — no work is ever lost.

Pro Tips

  • Start with the onboarding wizard — it personalizes your experience
  • Use @mentions to talk to specific agents in chat
  • Everything connects — assets flow from agents to Design Studio to your product
  • Your dashboard is your home base — check it daily for tasks and progress

Onboarding & Your Dashboard

15m
Free preview

Onboarding wizard, dashboard tabs, navigation, customization

Onboarding & Your Dashboard

The Onboarding Wizard

When you first sign up, the Onboarding Wizard walks you through a few key steps:

  1. Tell us about yourself — Your name, role, experience level
  2. What are you building? — Product type, industry, stage
  3. Your goals — Revenue targets, timeline, priorities
  4. Work preferences — When you work best, collaboration style

After onboarding, you land on the Get Started page (/get-started) — your personalized launchpad.

Dashboard Tabs

Your dashboard has four main tabs, each serving a different purpose:

Today Tab

Your daily command center showing:

  • Tasks due today — What needs attention right now
  • Agent activity — What your AI agents have been working on
  • Quick actions — One-click access to common tasks
  • Focus session timer — Built-in Pomodoro-style focus tool

Journey Tab

Your business-building progress across five phases:

  • VisionValidateBuildMarketScale
  • Auto-detects your current phase based on activity
  • Shows phase-specific recommendations and next steps

Mission Control Tab

Your strategic operations center:

  • ActionGrid with 7 tabs for different work areas
  • Phase Agent Map — which agents help at each business phase
  • Route to Second Brain — save any output for later use

Operations Hub Tab

Day-to-day business operations:

  • Hiring, Money, Rhythm, Brain, Playbook pillars
  • Track operational metrics and team activities

Navigation

The left sidebar gives you quick access to:

  • Dashboard (home)
  • Missions & OKRs
  • AI Chat (agent conversations)
  • Design Studio
  • Workflow Builder
  • Second Brain
  • Social Media
  • Settings

Customization

  • Dark/Light theme — Toggle in settings (dark is default)
  • Sidebar collapse — Click the collapse icon for more workspace
  • Pin favorites — Star frequently used pages

Common Mistakes

  • Don't skip onboarding — it personalizes AI agent behavior
  • Don't ignore the Today tab — it surfaces what matters most
  • Don't try everything at once — follow the Journey phases in order

Missions, OKRs & Project Planning

20m
Members only

Creating missions, setting OKRs, project milestones, tracking progress, the mission lifecycle

Second Brain — Your Knowledge Hub

20m
Members only

What Second Brain stores, asset grid, sidebar sections, uploading content, organizing knowledge. Milestone 1.

2

AI Agents & Design Studio

Meet your 45 AI agents, learn to command them with @mentions, and create stunning visual assets in Design Studio.

5 lessons

Meet Your AI Team — Agent Roster

15m
Members only

The 45 agents, categories, how to pick the right agent

Agent Commands & @Mentions

20m
Members only

Chat interface, @mentioning agents, task assignment, viewing agent output, the task queue

Design Studio — AI-Generated Assets

25m
Members only

Canvas tools, DALL-E generation, image editing, brand kit creation, asset management

The Asset Pipeline — From Idea to Deliverable

20m
Members only

How assets flow through the system, viewing in different contexts

Build a Brand Kit with AI Agents

30m
Members only

Create logo, color palette, typography, brand guidelines using agents; save to Second Brain. Milestone 2.

3

Launch & Market

Use Command Center, workflows, social media scheduling, and email marketing to launch and promote your product.

4 lessons

Command Center — Your Mission Control

20m
Members only

ActionGrid tabs, phase agent mapping, routing output to Second Brain, the 7 tabs

Workflows & Marketing Automation

25m
Members only

Workflow builder, triggers, conditions, actions, A/B testing, workflow chaining

Social Media Scheduling & Content

20m
Members only

Social media scheduler, content creation with agents, platform scheduling, analytics

Email Marketing & Lead Capture

20m
Members only

Transactional emails, nurture sequences, forms, lead scoring basics. Milestone 3.

4

Scale Your Business

Design growth flywheels, analyze results with Success Loop, collaborate with community, and launch a real product.

4 lessons

Flywheel Design — Growth That Compounds

20m
Members only

Flywheel concepts, the 7 types, using Flywheel Designer, linking to products

Analytics & Success Loop

20m
Members only

Success loop dashboard, evidence entries, confidence scores, tracking what works

Community & Collaboration Features

15m
Members only

Community panel, peer matching, marketplace, sharing resources

Capstone: Launch a Real Product on Waymaker

1h
Members only

Full product launch using missions, agents, design studio, marketing tools. Milestone 4.

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