What is a "Project Brain"?
A Project Brain is a persistent knowledge base for your project. It gives your AI assistant your deadlines, acronyms, and stakeholders up front, so you stop re-explaining your project every session.
A Project Brain is a persistent knowledge base for a project. It knows your deadlines, acronyms, and stakeholders before you ask. It's the foundation of the book and the subject of Chapter 1, The Project's Brain.
The problem it solves
A plain AI chat starts from zero. You explain the project, the team, and the constraints, get a useful answer, and then do it all again next time. Answers stay generic because the AI doesn't know your situation. A Project Brain gives the AI that context up front, every time.
How it's organized
Chapter 2, Feeding the Brain, uses a three-tier document structure. As the names suggest, roughly:
- Constitution: the core, stable facts about the project
- News: what's happening now
- Library: reference material
The book covers what goes in each tier in detail. For practical guidance, see What documents should I give my AI assistant?
Keeping it healthy
A Project Brain is only useful while its documents are clean and current. The book's method for this is the Janitor Protocol. See What is the Janitor Protocol?
What it enables
With the Brain in place, the rest of the book builds on it: planning, Gantt charts and dashboards, meeting processing, stakeholder simulation, and weekly reports. This is how you move from "producer" to "editor".
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