The Automated Household on Christa Burger

Build Your Own

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Everything in the Stable System started with one prompt typed by one tired person at 5:30pm. You don’t need the architecture on day one. You need one win tonight, a rhythm this week, and a system this month. Here’s the actual path.

First: decide what your life is for

Skip this step and every automation you build will be an efficient way to do things that don’t matter. Before you automate anything, get explicit — uncomfortably explicit — about what you actually want:

The Field Guide Vault

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

These are the handouts from my Automated Household workshops, exactly as I give them in person. They live in the vault below — one email opens all five, instantly. No drip sequence, no upsell maze, no “lesson 4 of 12.” I’m a governance person; I believe in honest exchanges. You get the guides; I get to write to you occasionally.

The Stable System

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I did not set out to build a pony-themed multi-agent AI architecture. I set out to stop rebuilding the same grocery list every week. But my early AI systems kept breaking down — no persistent memory, the same conversations over and over, the same context re-explained every time. The fix wasn’t a better prompt. It was structure: agents with identity, one job each, and a system that connects them.

Instead of asking one AI to do everything, I broke the job into specialized helpers. Each one does one job well. Together they run a smarter household — groceries, finances, health, chores, camping systems — as a team.