System · Connections

Connect it once.
Both tools use it.

Everything the deck pipeline draws on, and exactly where each connection gets made. The traffic connectors, texts, Slack, email, calendar, live on the BlakeOS side. Both run on one shared layer, so nothing gets set up twice.

Blake’s Brain · the knowledge graph

The first layer everything looks to. Every keynote transcript, Zoom recording, past deck, and the 284-quote book gets indexed into one semantic graph: searchable by meaning, connected like a mind map. The quote match in step two and the BlakeOS Studio library both query this same layer. It runs on the same engine Brody uses for his own second brain, no extra account and no API key.

First shelves already stocked: the quote book and the Scaling.com Drive folder. Everything else files in automatically as it arrives.

Shared with BlakeOS. Connect a source here and it shows up there. One brain, two surfaces.

Foundation ready

The quote book · live

The book lives in one shared store now: 283 lines and counting, the same table BlakeOS reads and writes. The Quotes shelf here pulls from it, so a line added on either side shows up on both. Nothing here is a snapshot anymore.

Adds from this shelf write back in pass two; until then, new lines enter through BlakeOS and appear here on the next refresh.

Live · shared store

Google account

One sign-in with the scaling.com Google account. It lets the Studio read the source folder in Drive and write the finished deck back as a native, editable Slides file.

Scopes: Drive (read sources, write the deck) and Slides. Nothing else.

Action needed

Google Slides API

The one real blocker. Drive already works, but the Slides API is switched off in the Google project, so step five cannot go live until the project owner flips it on. It is one click.

Enable it at console.developers.google.com/apis/api/slides.googleapis.com · project 713889906837

Blocked Open the console

Slides master theme

The eleven layouts on both grounds, Archivo Black and Archivo Narrow, lockup locked bottom right. Already built, already shared to Blake’s gmail.

One-time move: open it, then File, Make a copy into the Scaling.com drive so the team owns it.

Connected

Drive source folder

Point the Studio at the Scaling.com folder: philosophies, frameworks, the coaches playbook, past decks. That is what the auto-pull chips in step one read from, and it feeds the Brain.

Action needed

kie.ai · concept image engine

The step-three images: one anonymous figure, golden hour, the physical situation is the idea. They run on kie.ai: one account, one key, every top image model behind it, and Blake owns the billing, so the Studio never stalls on someone else’s credits.

Setup once: create the account, buy a credit pack, paste the key here. Refills are one button on their billing page, and the Studio flags a low balance before it matters. Until the key lands, images run on Brody’s pipeline so nothing blocks.

Key needed 4,180credits left · about 260 imagesrefill is one button on kie.ai Open kie.ai

Claude · the thinking engine

The drafting, the quote matching, the Brain checks, the deck assembly. All of it runs on Claude behind the scenes. One Anthropic API key, billed by use. Brody sets it up and watches the balance, so Blake never touches it. Model routing is handled: images on kie.ai, thinking on Claude, and neither is a knob Blake has to turn.

Set by Brody $41.20spend this month · Brody watches it

Plaud note taker

Blake is getting one. Every talk, coaching call, and car ride it captures gets transcribed and filed straight into the Brain, so the next deck starts from what he actually said last week, not from memory.

Coming

The door

One shared password, checked server side, no accounts and no email. Brody sets it and hands it to Blake and the team.

Set by Brody

Start with whatever
is in your head.

Your quote book
already said this.

The point becomes
a picture.

Eleven slides,
typeset and ready.

Straight into
Google Slides.

The deck is in your Drive.

Every deck,
one shelf.

Every image,
one library.

The quote book,
on its own shelf.

The frameworks.
This is the IP.

Every slot,
plus your own.

One brain.
Drop things in.