Four live sessions starting June 15th, 2026 · Enrollment open
Become an AI-native EA. Reclaim 20 hours per week.
Wire up an AI that audits your team's calendar automatically, turns meeting transcripts into tracked tasks, and plans the logistics of your team's next offsite. Most importantly, you'll be building on an AI foundation that gets sharper every time you use it.
— The cohort curriculum
The highest-leverage 4 hours of your career.
Four live sessions, one hour each. Every session starts with a demo, then you build it yourself — so you leave with workflows running, not just notes.
Hit inbox zero by 9am — automatically
FoundationWe wire calendar, email, and tasks into Claude and scaffold your local vault. By the end of the hour, AI is walking you through your morning — schedule prepped, briefings ready for every meeting, inbox triaged. Your 90-minute morning compresses to 20.
Recaps, action items, and digests that ship without you typing
Your vault syncs to remote. Write paths to email, Slack, and tasks staged for inline approval; meeting capture and recurring triggers wired in. Outputs leave your hands without you typing — auto-recaps to attendees, action items routed by owner, Friday's digest writing itself. 2–3× lift on baseline.
A system that gets sharper every week you use it
Run log instrumented; reflection commands and weekly ritual wired in. The system starts catching its own staleness — surfaces patterns about your work and yourself you couldn't see, ships one real fix in the room, locks your final cohort lift number.
Bring your principal in — without breaking trust
Principal layerAI-safety conversation script in hand; their world loaded into your vault; staged write access to their inbox and calendar. Inbox triage drafting in their voice, calendar scrub, and a 'waiting on you' decision queue all running on real principal data. Every draft staged for your approval before push.
Vendors, travel, and offsite prep — without the spreadsheet jungle
Bonus sessionTables, vendor lists, and time-blocked schedules loaded into your foundation. You ship one end-to-end logistics workflow live — an offsite, a complex event, family ops — running on a system instead of a dozen tabs.
The architecture
You stay in charge. AI does the rest.
The crucial design choice is treating the EA and Claude as a paired team. The EA brings strategic judgment and the principal relationship. Claude brings 24/7 memory and the ability to act on connectors. Most failed AI rollouts assume one or the other can do the whole job. This works because each side does what it's good at, and your vault is the medium they collaborate through.
The EA
HumanStrategic judgment · Principal relationship · Political instincts · Veto power on anything sensitive.
Claude
Agent24/7 memory · Acts on connectors · Drafts and waits for review · Stages every write for inline approval.
Calendar
Schedule + meetings
Inbox + drafts
Tasks
Action items + queue
Slack
Routing + recaps
Your vault
The shared mediumA folder of plain text files on your machine. Holds context, workflows, and learnings. Both sides read and write here. Survives any tool change because it's just markdown.
The EA brings judgment · Claude brings 24/7 memory · the vault is the medium they collaborate through, and the part that survives turnover.
Simple and reusable
Your foundation outlives every AI tool.
Plain text files are as simple as a Google Doc — and every AI can read them. You build your foundation here, so when a better tool comes along, your system moves with you instead of starting from scratch.
Who you work with, what they care about
Stakeholders, last touches, recurring people. Loaded into every AI conversation so it starts already knowing the room.
How you ship outputs and route them
Recap templates, routing rules, recurring triggers. Encoded once, run on schedule. Each session adds the next.
What the system noticed about your week
Run log, surfaced patterns, friction fixes. Grows by one or two bullets per shipped task. Three months in: an institutional knowledge base.
— Pricing
Pay once. Yours for life.
Refund anything end of week 1, no questions asked.
The cohort
$1,800
all-in
Four-session base series
Bonus session for your role
Accountability
Permanent alumni access
A featured demo slot
— Get it covered
Most companies cover this. Here's how to ask.
$1,800 sits inside most L&D budgets. Below is a copy-paste email for your exec — plus everything your finance team needs to say yes.
Hi [exec],
I'd like to enroll in Formation's 4-week live cohort for executive assistants — $1,800, starts June 15th, 2026. It's the AI workflow training I'd use to take 5+ hours a week of operational work off your plate: calendar audits, meeting transcripts turning into tracked tasks, inbox triage in your voice, and more.
Here's the page laying out exactly what I'd build, week by week: formation.dev/ai-native-principal
Could the company cover this as professional development?
Thanks!
— Satisfaction guaranteed
Try it. If it's not working, we'll refund you.
Decide it's not for you in your first week? Full refund, no friction.
Our only ask: 30 minutes of feedback so we know what didn't work and the next cohort runs better.
— Who built it
Built by world-class engineers, with support from the top EAs in the industry.
Curriculum tested with EAs at a16z, Athena, and other top firms before launch. Not a generic prompt course — every workflow came from an EA actually running a GP's, founder's, or CEO's day.
Sophie Novati
Founder and CEO
6+ years as Staff Engineer @Facebook, @Nextdoor
Interviewed and mentored 100+ software engineers
Founded Formation to fix the inequities in the tech industry
Michael Novati
Founder and CTO
8+ years as Senior Staff Software Engineer @Facebook
Top all-time committer to @Facebook’s codebase during his tenure
Founded Formation to help create more diverse engineering teams
— Common questions
Common questions.
