A membership from R.J. Nestor
Runs on HQ is open
Two sprints a month, two ongoing tracks, and five years of recorded sessions you can search.
Cancel whenever you like.
Two months cheaper than paying monthly.
What is HQ?
HQ is any workspace you share with AI. What makes it HQ is access, for both of you: to the information your work runs on, like your projects, tasks, calendar, and people, and to the tools where that work actually gets done.
Learn more about the HQ philosophy
Without it, every session starts in a white room. Your AI knows everything about the history of humanity and nothing about you or your work. HQ is what you do about the white room.
The environment does the explaining, so you need fewer instructions, the same way a well-made object tells you how to use it without a manual. I keep mine in plain files on my own computer, and that’s worth aiming at: a tool can disappear and your files will not. Not every file has to live locally, though. Integrate what you already use, keep one source of truth for each thing, and you’re running HQ.
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“No matter what you’re using as your knowledge base—local files, Tana, ClickUp—what you’re using doesn’t make a difference. The learning opportunity lies in using your AI agent pointed towards that knowledge base, a single source of truth, as opposed to being captive to the mechanics of that particular tool. That’s where the bang for the buck is.”
D. A. Smith-Hemphill, Ph.D. DSH Enterprises
The HQ Philosophy
17 min
What is Runs on HQ?
Runs on HQ is where we equip the environment you share with AI to manage and execute your real work, support your creative endeavors, and provide the processing power to free your own mind to focus on what you value.
What is Runs on HQ
6 min
Next session
Solve for Now
Mon, Oct 5 · 11 AM ET · ongoing
Search the Library
Every recording from every course I have run, and every Runs on HQ session from here on, lives in the Library. Over 500 of them today, and new ones every week. All of it indexed, so you can find what you need.
But you do not have to go looking. You get a tool for your own Claude (a small CLI). You hand it over, your Claude sets it up once, and from then on you can ask your Claude about anything from any session, whether it happened five years ago or last Thursday. It finds where the subject came up, tells you what was said, and gives you the recording starting at that minute.
You do not have to remember which session it was, who was on the call, or what anyone called it at the time. You ask the way you would ask a person who was in the room, and you ask inside the Claude you are already working in.
The search tool is live now.
Using the Library of all past and future sessions
7 min
I am in the room, every week, every session
I’ve spent twenty years as a coach, and the last six building productivity systems for myself and others. I wrote a book on productivity, with another on the way. I’m not a software engineer. Everything in my HQ I built by talking to Claude, which is why I know you can too.
I’m also a professional musician—composer, conductor, singer, pianist. I direct the music at my church and music-direct musicals around West Virginia. With three kids at home, my wife and I have our hands full. A system that only works when I have a clear afternoon is no use to me, and that requirement informs everything I build.
In Runs on HQ sessions I show you what I’ve built and how I built it, and then we work on yours. I’m not going to tell you how you ought to work. My job is to help you build the tools that reinforce the way you already work, rather than hand you tools that are optimized to me and call it your system.
You’ll take as much from the other people here as from me. The person solving a problem next to you is solving it differently, and in every cohort I’ve run that’s where many of the best ideas come from.
The founding rate
Hold it forever
Whatever the price does later, yours stays where it started for as long as you stay. Every sprint (two a month), both ongoing tracks, onboarding, every replay, and the Library.
Cancel whenever you like.
Two months cheaper than paying monthly.
What happens if you leave
You keep everything you built. It lives on your own machine and keeps working exactly as it did the day you left.
What you lose is access. The library and its search close, and so do the live sessions.
And the rate. You hold $49 for as long as you stay. Leave, and whenever you come back you come back at whatever the price is then.
FAQ
Is HQ for Action included?
No. HQ for Action is a separate kit, $197 once.
Members get $49 off it, and buying it comes with your first month of Runs on HQ free.
Do I need HQ for Action to join?
No. HQ is a philosophy of implementation, not a product: your work and the managing of it in one environment your AI can work in. Plenty of you built yours out of the courses years ago.
HQ for Action is the task and project management, built the HQ way, that you load in and have running instead of writing it yourself. Some people install it and go. Some never install it at all, and park it in a folder for their Claude to read while they build their own version from what they see there. Either way, what you bring to a sprint is your HQ, whatever’s in it.
What exactly is the Library?
Every recording from every course I have run, and every Runs on HQ session from here on. You get a tool that lets you ask about any of it from inside your own AI, and it hands you the recording at the minute your answer is in.
How much time is this?
As much or as little as you want. If you come to the live sessions, figure a couple of hours a week across whatever you are in. But the sessions are not the whole thing. You have every recording to watch on your own schedule, the forum to ask in, and me to ask directly.
What if my month runs out mid-sprint?
You finish the sprint. Enroll while you’re a member and you see it through to the showcase. You just can’t start a new one after that.
Is Reclaim Your Creative Mind the course I already bought?
No. It is a twice-monthly session track that carries the name. The recordings from the original course are in the Library, so you have those either way.
Do I have to code?
No. You set the direction and decide what you want built; your AI does the technical work.
Which AI plan do I need?
Claude or Codex, either one. The $20 a month plan is generally enough for day-to-day work in HQ. Lean on it harder and you may want more. I am on the $100 plan and it covers everything I do in a normal week, which means that for $1,200 a year I have something that works like a genuinely capable assistant and collaborator. That still strikes me as a bargain.
Cancel whenever you like.
Two months cheaper than paying monthly.
Questions? rj@rjnestor.com. I read every one.