# How to build a command centre with AI: step by step

To build a command centre with Corey, tell it what you need to see to run your week, let it read the sources you already have - your files, your repo, your accounts - and have it render a single page from them. You keep deciding what belongs on it. Corey helps you build it and rebuilds it as the numbers move; it is a projection of your own files, not a second place to keep the truth.

## Steps
1. Say what a good Monday morning looks like: Start with the decision, not the dashboard. Tell Corey what you need to know to run the week and what you keep forgetting to check. It turns that into a short list of what the page has to show, and you cut the list before anything is built.
2. Point it at the sources you already have: Corey reads what exists - the files in your folder, your repo, the accounts you have connected. If a number you want has no source, that is the finding: you decide whether to wire it up, track it by hand, or drop it from the page.
3. Have it render one page: Corey builds a single page from those sources, in your own folder. One screen, ranked so the things that need a decision sit above the things that are merely interesting.
4. Cut it down: The first version always shows too much. Take off anything you looked at and did not act on. A command centre earns its place by shortening your week, and every tile you never use is a tile that hides one you would.
5. Set it to rebuild: Ask Corey to refresh it on a schedule. Because the page is generated from your sources rather than typed into, it goes stale loudly rather than quietly - a source that stops reporting shows up as a gap instead of an old number that still looks current.

## FAQ
Q: Do you host the command centre for me?
A: No, and that is deliberate. Corey helps you build one in your own folder, on your own files. We withdrew the hosted version in September 2026 because it meant running infrastructure on your behalf and moving your business data onto an edge we control, which is a promise we would rather not make at this price. What you build is yours and it stays where your other work lives.

Q: Is the command centre where my data lives?
A: No. It is a projection, rebuilt from your files and accounts every time it refreshes. Nothing on the page is the only copy of anything, so you can delete it and regenerate it without losing a thing. Treat it as a view, never as a second source of truth - two places holding the same number is how they start to disagree.

Q: Do I need to be technical to build one?
A: No. You describe what you need to see and why, and Corey does the reading, the wiring and the rendering. The judgement stays with you: what belongs on the page, what does not, and what a number has to look like before it needs your attention.

Q: What if the number I want has no source?
A: Corey tells you rather than inventing one. That is usually the most useful part of the exercise - the thing you most want to watch turns out to be the thing you have never measured, and you find that out in an afternoon instead of at the end of a quarter.

Q: How much does it cost to build a command centre with Corey?
A: Corey is £9 every 4 weeks or £90 a year, with a 28-day probation at no cost and no card to start. Corey runs on your own paid AI plan, which for nearly everyone is Claude Pro, paid separately. Building the command centre and rebuilding it as things change are both covered by the one subscription.

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