On-demand training where your teen builds a local-first AI assistant that walks them through the eight essential life skills of the onetoeight guide, personalising each one with activities that fit their life.
The agent also helps with homework, planning, and the day ahead. No coding experience needed. Everything lives on their device, but requires an additional $20 OpenRouter.ai account credit setup. Plus a weekly live Q&A session every Tuesday at 5:00 PM.
Your teen learns through on-demand training modules they can follow at their own pace, on their own schedule. Each module covers a piece of the build, with step-by-step video and hands-on exercises.
Then, every Tuesday at 5:00 PM, we come together for a live Q&A session: bring your questions, get help, and learn alongside other teens. For one hour, we work together to build a personal AI agent using Hermes, a free, local-first agent platform that runs on a laptop or desktop.
Set up requires a one-time $20 OpenRouter.ai account credit; after that, no data leaves the device for everyday use.
The agent's primary job is to guide your teen through the eight essentials of onetoeight, with personalised activities the agent designs for them. Homework help, planning, and research are the bonus, not the point.
This programme is fully secular. The eight essentials (silence, body, community, nature, digital self-defence, life skills, knowledge, and tested convictions) are practical foundations for any young person. Your teen tailors their agent to reflect their own beliefs and values. No worldview is pushed. No pressure to think otherwise.
Through on-demand training modules, your teen configures their agent to perform three daily rituals. By the end, these run automatically: the agent greets them after school, helps them plan, and speaks a one-minute morning briefing when they wake up.
Your teen sits down, opens their agent, and talks. How was the day? What's weighing on you? What's the plan tonight? The agent listens, reflects, and helps them decompress before screen time takes over. It's a grounding conversation: the essential of silence and real community in practice.
Before bed, the agent helps them map tomorrow. School tasks, homework deadlines, the essential they're working on this week, one real-world thing they want to do. The agent drafts the plan, your teen edits it, and it saves locally. No app, no account, no cloud sync, just their agent remembering for them.
This is the magic. Each morning, the agent generates a one-minute text-to-speech audio briefing: their plan, their essential for the week, a thought to carry, a breath to take. Your teen wakes up, presses play, and starts the day with intention instead of a feed. The agent builds it overnight from yesterday's plan.
The onetoeight programme has eight essentials: the eight insights a screen-born generation needs. Your teen's agent is configured to teach each one, with activities it personalises for who they are. Not generic worksheets. Not a one-size app. The agent learns your teen and tailors the essential to their world.
Agent activity: guides a one-minute silence timer, asks what they noticed, and sets a daily "stillness challenge" scaled to their comfort level.
Agent activity: tracks one health habit your teen chooses (sleep, movement, hydration) and checks in daily without nagging.
Agent activity: shares a short passage each morning, asks one reflection question, and connects it to something happening in their week.
Agent activity: suggests one outdoor action based on their location and weather (a walk, a sit, a photo of something growing) and asks them to report back.
Agent activity: runs a weekly screen-time review, helps them set one boundary, and teaches them how algorithms work so they can recognise the patterns.
Agent activity: picks one real-world skill each week (cooking a meal, writing an email, managing money) and breaks it into doable steps they can tick off.
Agent activity: prompts one real-world connection action (a conversation, a thank-you, a visit) and follows up to ask how it went.
Agent activity: sets a weekly character challenge (honesty, courage, patience) and helps them reflect on what they learned when it got hard.
The agent isn't reading from a script. During the live sessions, your teen tells the agent about themselves: what they like, what's hard, what their week looks like. The agent uses that to design activities that actually fit. A sporty kid gets a different Body-as-Temple challenge than a bookish one. A teen who's anxious about screens gets a gentler Digital Self-Defence ramp than one who's already cutting back.
Every activity is saved locally with a short reflection. By the end of the programme, your teen has a portfolio of eight personalised essential challenges, and an agent that knows them well enough to keep going.
The full walkthrough (the conversation, the week-by-week build, the host's credentials, pricing, and what you'll need) lives on its own page.