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MindrianOS

First steps

The 30-minute onboarding

MindrianOS is a portfolio manager for your thinking, not a chatbot. The difference shows up in how you start. This is the sequence, distilled from real sessions, that turns a buffet of features into a path.

The job this does

When you are new and everything looks like a buffet, you want to a clear path for your first 30 minutes, so you can the product clicks instead of overwhelming you.

In plain terms

Most tools fail new users by showing every button at once. The fix is a sequence, not a tour. Do these five things in order and the loop below starts turning. After that, you are not learning the product anymore, you are using it.
you speakLarry routesroom files itproposes nextthe loop never resets

The mental model that matters

Larry does not answer questions so much as argue with you toward a better one. The room is the memory. You bring the judgment. Hold that and everything else makes sense.

The correct sequence

  1. 1
    Minutes 1 to 5. Set the expectation: this is a thinking partner, not a search box. It reads your room and proposes moves.
  2. 2
    Minutes 5 to 10. Run /mos:new-project. Describe who you are and what you are building, in plain language.
  3. 3
    Minutes 10 to 20. Feed it real material: a deck, a folder, a problem statement. Larry orients around what is actually there.
  4. 4
    Minutes 20 to 25. Describe your current challenge. Let Larry suggest the next command instead of picking one yourself.
  5. 5
    Minutes 25 to 30. Run the suggested command and watch the feedback loop: it files something, then proposes the next move.

Common mistakes

  1. 1
    Starting in a blank folder. Start where your real work already lives.
  2. 2
    Picking commands from the catalog. Tell Larry what is stuck in plain words; he routes to the right one.
  3. 3
    Splitting into many rooms too early. One project, one room, until it is genuinely two markets.
  4. 4
    Judging it on session one. The value compounds across sessions.

Power patterns

Run /mos:present early.

The six-view export turns even a thin room into investor-ready output. Doing this in your first session builds more trust than any explanation. Win the wow first; learn the methodology after.

Then run /mos:statusbetween sessions to see what shifted, and trust the staged "your next move is X" proposal over your own command picking. It has read your room state, the Brain neighborhood, and your recent decisions.

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