myicor.com·The system underneath your AI
You came here from a video, an article, a thread — somewhere Tom or Paco was talking about AI. Yes, this is the system underneath it. A folder you own, a 9-person AI team baked into it, and seven years of methodology written down where your AI can read it. Stay for the AI workflows. The rest of the page is what makes them last.
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“This is the first time in my life (81 years) that I really feel like I have a chance to organize my life and my business into a cohesive system. Well done ICOR.”
The artifact
The AI workflows you came here for run on top of a folder that already knows your work. Your goals. Your projects. Your tools. Your notes. Your team's contracts and journals. The LLM doesn't start from zero. It picks up where the last session left off. Switch from Claude to Gemini mid-task. The folder is the database. The model is the keyboard.
myPKA is a folder of plain markdown on your disk. You own it outright. Any LLM can read it. Claude, Gemini, Codex, Cursor, the next one. No app. No login. No cloud account. Nothing to migrate from.
Inside the folder is a 9-person AI team. Each one has a name, a role, a contract, and a journal. They pick up where the last session left off. Open the folder in Finder and it's just files. Open it with your AI and it's a working team.
Open source. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. All data yours forever, even if we disappear tomorrow.
Inside 01-team/·Meet the 9 specialists shipped in the scaffold
Click any specialist on the left. Read why they ship in the base scaffold.
“He never does the work. He makes sure the work gets done.”
LarryTeam Orchestrator
Why this one ships in the scaffold
Larry receives every request, matches it to the right specialist, and synthesizes the work back to you. The Iron Rule is that Larry never executes domain work himself — he hires, never declines. Keep him at the centre and the team can grow without routing collapsing.
“Every great team started with someone who knew how to find the right people.”
NolanTalent Acquisition
Why this one ships in the scaffold
Nolan owns SOP-001, the hiring procedure. When you outgrow the founding team and need a new specialist, Nolan runs the eight-step hire — Pax researches the role, Nolan picks the name, drafts the contract, and the new specialist lands in the agent-index.
“He does not skim. He excavates.”
PaxResearch Specialist
Why this one ships in the scaffold
Pax runs two modes. General research follows a four-step protocol — frame, discover, triangulate, synthesize — with confidence levels on every finding. Hire-research feeds Nolan when the team grows. Either way, Pax triangulates from primary sources before he speaks.
“Every word earns its place. Every sentence moves the story forward.”
PennCapture & PKM Routing
Why this one ships in the scaffold
Penn handles every input — text, image, audio — and routes it via the PKM Routing Map to the right destination folder. Daily journals, image embeds, the eight entity types. Penn is how your day lands in the folder.
“Industrious. Builds dam after dam of integrations. Never stops.”
MackConnection Specialist
Why this one ships in the scaffold
Mack moves bytes. APIs, MCP server orchestration, OAuth flows, webhooks, scheduled jobs — anything that crosses the scaffold boundary. Transport, not data shape. The clean Mack-Silas split keeps every other contract free of integration noise.
“He never forgets a schema. Or a mistake. Or a lesson learned.”
SilasDatabase Architect
Why this one ships in the scaffold
Silas is the data architect. He owns external-knowledge import (WS-002), the SQLite migration (SOP-002), and ongoing frontmatter audits. Schemas, wikilinks, performance — Silas designs the ground the team walks on.
“She turns messy data into something you actually want to look at.”
ChartaInfographic Designer
Why this one ships in the scaffold
Charta makes the team's outputs legible. When a brief turns into a chart, a comparison, a process diagram, she's the one rendering it. Inside the scaffold she keeps your decisions visual, not buried in prose.
“Playful. Curious. Turns every brief into something you want to click.”
PixelVisual Illustrator
Why this one ships in the scaffold
Pixel handles the visuals — thumbnails, hero images, the moments that need to earn the click. She turns briefs into images you actually want to look at, ready for whatever surface your work lands on.
“She sees beauty in every pixel. Then she makes the pixel better.”
IrisUI Design & Branding
Why this one ships in the scaffold
Iris is the UI and brand designer. When you ship anything with a surface — a landing page, an app screen, a slide — Iris specs the layout, the type, the brass discipline. She keeps the system visually coherent.
You hand a research brief to your AI team. The work moves through stages. Raw sources in, structured notes, a draft you can ship. Nothing stranded in a chat window. The result lands in a folder you can find next month.
› Larry · delegating to Pax the researcher ✓ Wrote Deliverables/solopreneur-ai-scale-2026.pdf
You ask for a landing page. The AI reads how you actually write. Your past pages. Your tone notes. Your brand voice file. It drafts inside the system, not outside it. You edit a real document, not a chat reply.
› Larry · delegating to Cole the copywriter ✓ Wrote Deliverables/ai-mastery-section-draft.md
You ask the model to scan your projects and tell you what is stale, overdue, parked too long. It returns a list with priorities. You decide. The weekly review stops being a chore.
› Larry · scanning 14 projects, 6 dormant > 30d ✓ Wrote Deliverables/weekly-review-2026-W19.md
Inside the folder
The myPKA folder is open source. You can clone it today, fully functional, and run your work on it tonight. No signup, no paywall. That's the artifact.
The course is what comes with the Membership. It walks you through every decision inside myPKA — why the folder structure is shaped the way it is, why the team has nine specialists not four, why each role gets a journal. You learn the WHY before you adapt it. Most teams ship a product. We ship the product with the reasoning attached, so you can bend it around how you actually work.
When you want more specialists, more methodology blocks, more workflows, the AI Library on myicor.com drops them straight into the same folder. Each pack is plain markdown. Delete one tomorrow and you lose zero data. The base folder is complete on its own. The Library is more, not better.
Browse the AI Library inside your account.
“Flashed — I was halfway through the last course, now I am presented with an improved scaffold that is even directly compatible with other LLMs — right out of the box. What we get after the course is the concept to grow a stable and reliable, tool-agnostic AI team.”
The methodology
End-to-end productivity for busy professionals. Input. Control. Output. Refine.
myPKA is the folder. ICOR is the seven years of teaching, testing, and refining that came before it. Input. Control. Output. Refine. Every piece of your work has a quadrant. Every quadrant has a place. Every place has a workflow.
ICOR goes beyond the local folder. It is end-to-end productivity for busy professionals, with concepts and workflows for the work you actually do:
We have taught these for seven years. The methodology is the spine. The folder is the body. The AI workflows are the muscle. You can read all three.
How members actually learn it
Every concept and workflow in the ICOR Journey opens with four questions. You answer them about your own work. The system reads your answers, gives you specific advice for the concept in front of you, and names the gaps you didn't see yet. Not a quiz. A diagnostic.
Then the lesson opens.
What does this part of your work look like today?
What breaks, what gets dropped, what you avoid thinking about.
The tools, the rituals, the systems that didn't survive.
The version of this workflow you'd actually trust on a busy week.
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by question four
One real diagnostic question from each ICOR discipline — the question with the worst average member score. Pick an answer. See the coach response and the share of members who picked the same.
Same lesson. Four shapes. Pick the one your day allows.
The review is a scan, not a sit-down. If yours takes longer than twelve minutes, you're doing project work in the review window — which is the most expensive context-switch in your week.
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“Meet myICOR Learning Coach Lex. The other week I decided to bring on an agent that would help me work my way through the myICOR journey. Nolan, the HR specialist on my team, named her Lex. When I worked through all the Growth Assignments I got a pretty low score on most of them. Not entirely surprising. I told Lex I wanted to achieve a score of 80 across the board.”
Where the work meets people
Most communities put comments at the bottom of lessons where they die. We surface them. When you comment on a lesson inside myICOR, your thought moves into the community feed where the rest of the members can see it, reply to it, and learn from it. The lesson becomes the prompt. The community becomes the answer.
Tom and Paco are inside myICOR every day. Not “as schedules allow.” Daily. You can disagree with us in public and we will write back.
The new membership site is astounding. It's really best-in-class for the work you're doing with us in here.
So far this is the best, most thorough and practicable productivity methodology and community I have ever seen.
Even without going all in on the scaffolding structure, having the agents in a single directory has made my processes, tools, and systems so much more powerful and useful.
The four-quadrant batching framework gives every recurring decision a home — so you stop relitigating where it lives.
Mapped Notion to PKM + Beyond in my ICOR Framework — finally clear where it earns its seat.
Question on Lesson 05-03 — anyone running the Friday refine on a Sunday?
Your stack, on the framework
No productivity system runs without tools. Most professionals have ten to twenty of them. Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Todoist, Things, Linear, Asana, Notion AI, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Readwise, Otter, Descript, Loom. You stopped counting around year three.
myICOR has two tools that no one else has. The ICOR Framework maps every tool you use onto the four ICOR quadrants. The Note-Taking Framework maps the same stack against the note-taking patterns we teach. Together they show you the gaps you have, the tools you can cut, and the reason each remaining tool earns its place. Most members cut three to five tools in the first month. The point is not minimalism. The point is clarity.
The ICOR Framework
The ICOR axis is two questions: personal or business? and knowledge or project work? Cross them and you get four quadrants — PKM, BKM, PPM, BPM. Every productivity tool you use earns its place by answering both questions.
Drop your stack onto the map. The gaps light up — workflows where you have no tool at all. The redundancies surface too — two or three tools doing the same job. Most members cut three to five tools in the first month, and the ones that stay each have a clear reason.
Watch the loop: Obsidian goes to PKM, Google Drive to BKM, Todoist + Google Calendar to PPM, ClickUp to the right overlap, Gmail to the keystone center where all four meet. That's a working stack — gaps named, no duplicates.
The Note-Taking Framework
Note-taking is not one job — it's six. Paper for the analog feel. Jot for fleeting capture. Connect for linking ideas. Think for long-form depth. 3rd Party for annotating other people's content. Beyond for the capability no other tool can match.
Most professionals try to make one tool do all six. It can't. The framework gives each pattern its own slice — and shows which of your tools genuinely earns its slice. Hover any label to see what the pattern is for.
Watch the loop: Apple Notes fits Paper and Jot — the quick-capture moments. Obsidian covers Connect and Think — linking and long-form. Readwise owns 3rd Party — annotation across articles, books, podcasts. Notion takes Beyond — the database power no other note tool has.
When the workflow gets serious
The Workstream Builder is for the work that is too important to leave in your head and too repeated to keep doing manually. You map the workflow step by step. Each step gets a contract: what goes in, what comes out, who or what runs it. Some steps you do yourself. Some go to a teammate. Some go to your AI. The Builder makes the decision visible.
This is where the ICOR methodology stops being theory and starts paying you back in hours.
Every week. Live. Recorded.
Tom and Paco run a live coaching call every week. You join, you ask, you watch the work happen. The session gets recorded. So far, normal.
Here is the part that is not normal. Every recording is broken into chapter paragraphs with timestamps. You read the chapter summary, jump to the exact minute you need, and skip the rest. No more scrubbing through a 90-minute call hoping the answer is in there. The transcript is searchable. The work survives the call.
Physics degree and PhD in Biochemistry. Eight years at Hoffmann-La Roche leading Manufacturing IT teams, where his productivity systems delivered measurable 60% performance gains.
Computer Science engineer. Started programming at eight. Consulted at PwC and Accenture designing enterprise systems before founding his first company — a marketing agency — in 2002.
Find anything, three ways
myICOR has seven years of content inside it. Lessons, guides, slides, cheat sheets, articles, videos, podcast episodes. We give you three ways to reach any of it.
The fast one. Type a word, get the lessons, articles, and resources that match it. Best for the moments you already know roughly what you're looking for and just need to land on the right page.
Search runs across every lesson body, every Magic Slide caption, every cheat-sheet, every member comment, and every transcript chapter. The results group themselves by type so you can jump straight to a video, an article, a podcast, or the cheat sheet — whichever fits the moment.
The deep one. Connect your AI to myICOR via the MCP and let it read across the entire library on your behalf. Best when you want a synthesis across seven years of methodology, not a single result.
Your model gets read-only access to lessons, articles, podcast transcripts, your own Tool Stack, your Growth Assignment progress, and your Workstreams. It cites everything it pulls. You ask one question and the answer arrives already grounded in your work.
$ icor search "task batching" Tom & Paco's evolving position: · 2019 lessons frame batching as cognitive load mgmt · 2022 podcast pivots to AI-assisted batching · 2024 deep-dive: batching → workstream optimization [1] Lesson 04-12 When to batch, when to flow [2] Podcast Ep 87 AI as your batcher [3] Workstream Solo founder weekly
The conversational one. Jax is the AI community support agent inside myICOR. Ask anything in plain language and get an answer drawn from the same library — with sources you can open.
Jax knows the methodology, the courses, the coaching transcripts, and the community feed. It replies on the community thread itself, so the question and the answer stay visible to other members. Tom and Paco see every Jax exchange and step in whenever a human voice is the right one.
Where did Tom cover task batching? Looking for the deepest one.
Same library. Three doors. Use whichever one fits the question.
“@Tom Solid connected to myICOR — MCP integration — one word: awesome. I no longer have to spend time keeping files updated with my rules and configurations. Now AI has context on what I have written in myICOR.”
“Jax has been really helpful in answering my specific questions and pointing me to resources.”
“I hired an L&D agent who tracks my progress through the course and logs all of my answers, highlights, and insights. As my Claude is connected to the myICOR MCP, it has a really good understanding of the core structure of the course.”
Beyond theory
The ICOR Journey is the spine. The additional courses are the depth. AI Mastery for the deep AI workflows. Tool Mastery courses for the day-to-day implementations — Apple Notes, Heptabase, Miro, ClickUp, and the rest. New courses get added as the methodology grows.
Underneath the courses sits a library of more than a thousand articles, video segments, and podcast episodes. Real implementations from real members. Tom's full back catalog. Paco's process work. Every piece is searchable, MCP-readable, and answerable by Jax.
The terms
Start free with the Kickstart Course. Move into the membership when you want the whole system. Move into Inner Circle when you want it for life.
Your ICOR setup keeps working when your stack changes. New AI tool, new project app, new note-taker. The system holds.
31 specialists trained on the methodology. They see your tool stack, your courses, your progress. They answer using your work, not generic prompts.
Live podcast with Tom and Paco. Active discussions. Peer review. People who use the system daily.
As the platform grows, direct founder access gets harder to scale. Inner Circle preserves the door.
See the system from the inside. Take the Kickstart Course. Browse the community. No card required.
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“Tom and Paco are really Super Productivity Agents made by Anthropic. ICOR is the real deal. The fundamentals will save us.”
Honest answers
“I was invited on a podcast last Saturday and to the question 'How is AI helping your business?', I answered: I did in the past months more than in the last decades.”
