What you will learn
- Small-business launch day
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▶ AI Grading Rubric
| Dimension | Weight | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Full showcase | 15% | Lists video, product and payment link, booking, both digital employees' output this week and the agent; honestly marks what is not done. |
| Real trials | 20% | At least three real people (one not family/friend) tried the video, agent and payment page, without being pushed to buy. |
| Verbatim feedback | 20% | Verbatim answers to all four questions per person, plus the questions the agent could not answer. |
| Recap and next step | 20% | Five-part recap with true numbers (zeros included), one next step doable in a week, and one fix made the same day. |
| Honest and compliant | 10% | No income projections, result promises or fake urgency; payment only via the hosted page; no tester names or contacts. |
| Authenticity | 15% | The student's own work in their own words, with personal context, not AI boilerplate or a copied example. |
90-100 Excellent: every part done, clearly their own · 70-89 Solid, one or two things to improve · 50-69 Done but missing parts or thin · 30-49 Mostly not done · 1-29 Nearly empty
Further notes
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<!-- page: Set up your showcase -->
**This lesson is your small-business launch day.** In Quick Start Lesson 10, you asked one person to look at your website and free resource. This time you have more: a video, a product that can take money, two digital employees working for you, and an agent greeting people for you. Ask a few real people to try them, listen to their exact words, then write a one-page recap and decide your next step.
**First, make a list of your work.** In your notes app, write down these six things, each with a link or one sentence:
1. **Promo video** (Lessons 2 and 3): the video link.
2. **Small product** (Lesson 6): name, price, payment link.
3. **Consulting service** (Lesson 7): how to book.
4. **Digital employee one** (Lesson 4): the article draft it prepared for you this week, in the version you edited.
5. **Digital employee two** (Lesson 5): the small-business review it wrote for you this week.
6. **Your agent** (Lesson 8): the agent link.
**If something isn't done yet, write it honestly: "Not done yet, stuck at [which step]."** Launch day isn't a test; you can hold it with one piece missing. Write it honestly, and in your recap you'll know what to fix first.
**Click through each one.** Do the links open? Is the price on the payment page the same as the price the agent gives? Open the agent in a private window and ask it a question: does it still follow its rules? Fix whatever is broken first.
<!-- page: Prepare a five-minute introduction and an invitation -->
**Have Claude help you prepare a five-minute introduction.** Go back to your "My Website" project:
```
Help me prepare a 5-minute introduction for [the kind of people I want to help], in plain English, in five parts:
1. Who I am, who I want to help, and what problem they have;
2. Ask them to watch my promo video ([video link]);
3. Ask them to ask my AI assistant two questions they really want to ask ([agent link]), and explain that it is an AI assistant, and that bookings and payments go to me directly;
4. Introduce my small product and consulting: who it's for, what they get, how much, how to buy, how refunds work. Buy only if you want to; no need to buy just to be nice to me;
5. One sentence on how I use two AI digital employees to write an article and do a review every week: AI drafts, I edit and make the decisions myself.
At the end, ask them to tell me four things: What was useful? What was unclear? What other help would you like? If it cost money, would you buy it, and why?
Use only the facts I gave you in this project. Do not make anything up, do not promise results, and do not say "limited time" or "only a few spots left".
```
Read it through, change it to the way you talk, and try saying it out loud once.
**Then write an invitation.** Invite at least **3 people**, and **at least 1 of them should not be family or friends**, but the kind of person you really want to help: for example, someone who left you a comment on SRlink in Lesson 9, a commenter under your video, a neighbor, a former coworker. Before inviting someone, ask first whether they'd be willing:
```
Write me a 3-sentence invitation to send to [who they are, as a relationship]:
I started a small business that helps [whom], and I'd like to ask you to spend 15 minutes trying it: watch one video, ask my AI assistant two questions, and take a look at my small product.
What I most want is your honest opinion; feel free to tell me what's not good. You don't have to buy anything.
Keep the tone polite, don't exaggerate, and don't promise results.
```
Send out the invitations and set times. In person, on a video call, or sending the links for them to try on their own all work.
<!-- page: Hold your launch and write down exact words -->
**One person at a time.** Follow your introduction, and ask them to really use everything once: watch the video, ask the agent, open the payment page and take a look.
- **In person or on a video call:** let them do it with their own hands. They need to sign up free before they can chat with the agent (they get $1 when they sign up, so trying it costs them nothing); ask them to do the signup themselves, and don't fill it in for them.
- **Sending links for them to try alone:** send the video, agent and payment page links along with the four questions, and ask them to reply once they've tried it.
**Watch what they ask the agent.** Write down any question the agent can't answer, or answers wrong. That's the item missing from your FAQ.
**Write down their exact words for the four questions:**
1. What was useful?
2. What was unclear?
3. What other help would you like?
4. If it cost money, would you buy it? Why?
Don't answer for them, don't rush to explain, and don't talk them into buying. "I wouldn't buy it, because..." is the most valuable sentence of all. If someone really does buy, deliver on time the way you set up in Lesson 6; if someone wants a refund, refund them the way you wrote.
Once all three have tried it, gather their exact words into one file. **Don't write down their names, phone numbers or emails**; just write the relationship, like "a grandmother who lives next door".
<!-- page: A one-page recap, and your next step -->
**Write a one-page recap.** The review digital employee from Lesson 5 was made for exactly this. You can hand it the exact words, or go back to your "My Website" project and say:
```
Here are my notes from my small-business launch day:
List of my work: [paste the six items from page 1, honestly marking what isn't done]
Exact words from the three testers: [paste the gathered exact words]
Questions they asked the agent that it couldn't answer: [paste]
Real numbers: how many people tried it [ ], how many asked the agent [ ], how many opened the payment page [ ], how many bought [ ] (write 0 if it's 0).
Write me a one-page recap in just five parts:
1. What I got done;
2. The most useful sentence a real person said (exact words);
3. The place real people got most stuck (exact words);
4. One thing I'll fix this week;
5. One single next step, doable within a week.
Use only the facts I gave you. Do not predict income, do not make up numbers, and do not promise results.
```
**Read it through and check every line.** Use trick C from Quick Start Lesson 5 (check whether AI made anything up): did it invent any numbers for you? Any predictions like "how much you can earn next month"? If so, delete them. A number of 0 is fine; it tells you which way to change things next.
**Fix one thing right away.** Pick one item from part 4 and fix it today: most often, that's adding the question the agent couldn't answer to your FAQ from Lesson 8 (remember to click **Save** on WukongDojo, then ask again in **Playground**), or rewriting the line on your payment page that people found confusing.
**Congratulations, your small business is up and running.** You have a video that brings people in, a product that takes money, consulting people can book, two digital employees working for you every week, an agent greeting people for you, and a circle of people supporting each other. Most important of all, you have real people's exact words, and you know what to change next.
**Stage three: become a member, learn and help each other.** The SiliconRoshi (硅谷老兵) academy's member classes are live almost every Tuesday at 5:30 PM PT for about an hour, led by Bill himself (taught in Chinese): teaching, Q&A and sharing with each other, and if you're stuck you can ask right there. Members can watch all the recordings and share as many posts as they like on SRlink. To join, see the membership plans at **siliconroshi.ai/en/membership**; that page has the current prices and terms.
The member classes don't guarantee you'll make money, and they won't do the work for you; they mean you don't have to figure it out alone. Not joining is completely fine too: take your recap, work on that one thing from part 5 for a week, then invite the next real person to try it.
**Come back in a week and take a look.** When your next weekly review comes out, check it against your recap: did you do the thing from part 5?
**This lesson is your small-business launch day.** In Quick Start Lesson 10, you asked one person to look at your website and free resource. This time you have more: a video, a product that can take money, two digital employees working for you, and an agent greeting people for you. Ask a few real people to try them, listen to their exact words, then write a one-page recap and decide your next step.
**First, make a list of your work.** In your notes app, write down these six things, each with a link or one sentence:
1. **Promo video** (Lessons 2 and 3): the video link.
2. **Small product** (Lesson 6): name, price, payment link.
3. **Consulting service** (Lesson 7): how to book.
4. **Digital employee one** (Lesson 4): the article draft it prepared for you this week, in the version you edited.
5. **Digital employee two** (Lesson 5): the small-business review it wrote for you this week.
6. **Your agent** (Lesson 8): the agent link.
**If something isn't done yet, write it honestly: "Not done yet, stuck at [which step]."** Launch day isn't a test; you can hold it with one piece missing. Write it honestly, and in your recap you'll know what to fix first.
**Click through each one.** Do the links open? Is the price on the payment page the same as the price the agent gives? Open the agent in a private window and ask it a question: does it still follow its rules? Fix whatever is broken first.
<!-- page: Prepare a five-minute introduction and an invitation -->
**Have Claude help you prepare a five-minute introduction.** Go back to your "My Website" project:
```
Help me prepare a 5-minute introduction for [the kind of people I want to help], in plain English, in five parts:
1. Who I am, who I want to help, and what problem they have;
2. Ask them to watch my promo video ([video link]);
3. Ask them to ask my AI assistant two questions they really want to ask ([agent link]), and explain that it is an AI assistant, and that bookings and payments go to me directly;
4. Introduce my small product and consulting: who it's for, what they get, how much, how to buy, how refunds work. Buy only if you want to; no need to buy just to be nice to me;
5. One sentence on how I use two AI digital employees to write an article and do a review every week: AI drafts, I edit and make the decisions myself.
At the end, ask them to tell me four things: What was useful? What was unclear? What other help would you like? If it cost money, would you buy it, and why?
Use only the facts I gave you in this project. Do not make anything up, do not promise results, and do not say "limited time" or "only a few spots left".
```
Read it through, change it to the way you talk, and try saying it out loud once.
**Then write an invitation.** Invite at least **3 people**, and **at least 1 of them should not be family or friends**, but the kind of person you really want to help: for example, someone who left you a comment on SRlink in Lesson 9, a commenter under your video, a neighbor, a former coworker. Before inviting someone, ask first whether they'd be willing:
```
Write me a 3-sentence invitation to send to [who they are, as a relationship]:
I started a small business that helps [whom], and I'd like to ask you to spend 15 minutes trying it: watch one video, ask my AI assistant two questions, and take a look at my small product.
What I most want is your honest opinion; feel free to tell me what's not good. You don't have to buy anything.
Keep the tone polite, don't exaggerate, and don't promise results.
```
Send out the invitations and set times. In person, on a video call, or sending the links for them to try on their own all work.
<!-- page: Hold your launch and write down exact words -->
**One person at a time.** Follow your introduction, and ask them to really use everything once: watch the video, ask the agent, open the payment page and take a look.
- **In person or on a video call:** let them do it with their own hands. They need to sign up free before they can chat with the agent (they get $1 when they sign up, so trying it costs them nothing); ask them to do the signup themselves, and don't fill it in for them.
- **Sending links for them to try alone:** send the video, agent and payment page links along with the four questions, and ask them to reply once they've tried it.
**Watch what they ask the agent.** Write down any question the agent can't answer, or answers wrong. That's the item missing from your FAQ.
**Write down their exact words for the four questions:**
1. What was useful?
2. What was unclear?
3. What other help would you like?
4. If it cost money, would you buy it? Why?
Don't answer for them, don't rush to explain, and don't talk them into buying. "I wouldn't buy it, because..." is the most valuable sentence of all. If someone really does buy, deliver on time the way you set up in Lesson 6; if someone wants a refund, refund them the way you wrote.
Once all three have tried it, gather their exact words into one file. **Don't write down their names, phone numbers or emails**; just write the relationship, like "a grandmother who lives next door".
<!-- page: A one-page recap, and your next step -->
**Write a one-page recap.** The review digital employee from Lesson 5 was made for exactly this. You can hand it the exact words, or go back to your "My Website" project and say:
```
Here are my notes from my small-business launch day:
List of my work: [paste the six items from page 1, honestly marking what isn't done]
Exact words from the three testers: [paste the gathered exact words]
Questions they asked the agent that it couldn't answer: [paste]
Real numbers: how many people tried it [ ], how many asked the agent [ ], how many opened the payment page [ ], how many bought [ ] (write 0 if it's 0).
Write me a one-page recap in just five parts:
1. What I got done;
2. The most useful sentence a real person said (exact words);
3. The place real people got most stuck (exact words);
4. One thing I'll fix this week;
5. One single next step, doable within a week.
Use only the facts I gave you. Do not predict income, do not make up numbers, and do not promise results.
```
**Read it through and check every line.** Use trick C from Quick Start Lesson 5 (check whether AI made anything up): did it invent any numbers for you? Any predictions like "how much you can earn next month"? If so, delete them. A number of 0 is fine; it tells you which way to change things next.
**Fix one thing right away.** Pick one item from part 4 and fix it today: most often, that's adding the question the agent couldn't answer to your FAQ from Lesson 8 (remember to click **Save** on WukongDojo, then ask again in **Playground**), or rewriting the line on your payment page that people found confusing.
**Congratulations, your small business is up and running.** You have a video that brings people in, a product that takes money, consulting people can book, two digital employees working for you every week, an agent greeting people for you, and a circle of people supporting each other. Most important of all, you have real people's exact words, and you know what to change next.
**Stage three: become a member, learn and help each other.** The SiliconRoshi (硅谷老兵) academy's member classes are live almost every Tuesday at 5:30 PM PT for about an hour, led by Bill himself (taught in Chinese): teaching, Q&A and sharing with each other, and if you're stuck you can ask right there. Members can watch all the recordings and share as many posts as they like on SRlink. To join, see the membership plans at **siliconroshi.ai/en/membership**; that page has the current prices and terms.
The member classes don't guarantee you'll make money, and they won't do the work for you; they mean you don't have to figure it out alone. Not joining is completely fine too: take your recap, work on that one thing from part 5 for a week, then invite the next real person to try it.
**Come back in a week and take a look.** When your next weekly review comes out, check it against your recap: did you do the thing from part 5?