Become an AI-native EA. Reclaim hours every week.

Wire up an AI that audits your team's calendar automatically, turns meeting transcripts into tracked tasks, and plans the logistics of your team's next offsite. Most importantly, you'll be building on an AI foundation that gets sharper every time you use it.

25EAs
4weeks
60min live each
Soonnext start

The highest-leverage 4 hours of your career.

Four live sessions, one hour each. Every session starts with a demo, then you build it yourself — so you leave with workflows running, not just notes.

01 Hit inbox zero by 9am — automatically

Foundation
We wire calendar, email, and tasks into Claude and scaffold your local vault. By the end of the hour, AI is walking you through your morning — schedule prepped, briefings ready for every meeting, inbox triaged. Your 90-minute morning compresses to 20.

Session 01
60 min

02 Recaps, action items, and digests that ship without you typing

Your vault syncs to remote. Write paths to email, Slack, and tasks staged for inline approval; meeting capture and recurring triggers wired in. Outputs leave your hands without you typing — auto-recaps to attendees, action items routed by owner, Friday's digest writing itself. 2–3× lift on baseline.

Session 02
60 min

03 A system that gets sharper every week you use it

Run log instrumented; reflection commands and weekly ritual wired in. The system starts catching its own staleness — surfaces patterns about your work and yourself you couldn't see, ships one real fix in the room, locks your final lift number.

Session 03
60 min

04 Bring your principal in — without breaking trust

Principal layer
AI-safety conversation script in hand; their world loaded into your vault; staged write access to their inbox and calendar. Inbox triage drafting in their voice, calendar scrub, and a 'waiting on you' decision queue all running on real principal data. Every draft staged for your approval before push.

Session 04
60 min

+1 Vendors, travel, and offsite prep — without the spreadsheet jungle

Bonus session
Tables, vendor lists, and time-blocked schedules loaded into your foundation. You ship one end-to-end logistics workflow live — an offsite, a complex event, family ops — running on a system instead of a dozen tabs.

You stay in charge. AI does the rest.

The crucial design choice is treating the EA and Claude as a paired team. The EA brings strategic judgment and the principal relationship. Claude brings 24/7 memory and the ability to act on connectors. Most failed AI rollouts assume one or the other can do the whole job. This works because each side does what it's good at, and your vault is the medium they collaborate through.

The Orchestrator Pair

The EA

• Human
• Strategic judgment · Principal relationship · Political instincts · Veto power on anything sensitive.

Paired

Claude

• Agent
• 24/7 memory · Acts on connectors · Drafts and waits for review · Stages every write for inline approval.

The Connectors

• Calendar: Schedule + meetings
• Email: Inbox + drafts
• Tasks: Action items + queue
• Slack: Routing + recaps

Your vault

The shared medium

A folder of plain text files on your machine. Holds context, workflows, and learnings. Both sides read and write here. Survives any tool change because it's just markdown.

Your foundation outlives every AI tool.

Plain text files are as simple as a Google Doc — and every AI can read them. You build your foundation here, so when a better tool comes along, your system moves with you instead of starting from scratch.

your-vault/A folder on your machine

• context/ Who you work with, what they care about: Stakeholders, last touches, recurring people. Loaded into every AI conversation so it starts already knowing the room.
• workflows/ How you ship outputs and route them: Recap templates, routing rules, recurring triggers. Encoded once, run on schedule. Each session adds the next.
• learnings/ What the system noticed about your week: Run log, surfaced patterns, friction fixes. Grows by one or two bullets per shipped task. Three months in: an institutional knowledge base.

Pay once. Yours for life.

Refund anything end of week 1, no questions asked.

The series

$1,800 all-in

• Four-session base series
• Bonus session for your role
• Accountability
• Permanent alumni access
• A featured demo slot

25 seats per group
Refund window: end of week 1
Lifetime updates included

Most companies cover this. Here's how to ask.

$1,800 sits inside most L&D budgets. Below is a copy-paste email for your exec — plus everything your finance team needs to say yes.

Subject: Professional development request — Formation AI-Native EA

Hi [exec],
I'd like a seat in Formation's 4-week live series for executive assistants — $1,800, next start date coming soon. It's the AI workflow coaching I'd use to take hours of operational work off your plate every week: calendar audits, meeting transcripts turning into tracked tasks, inbox triage in your voice, and more.

Here's the page laying out exactly what I'd build, week by week: formation.dev/ai-native-principal

Could the company cover this as professional development?

Thanks!

Satisfaction guaranteed

Try it. If it's not working, we'll refund you.
100% Refund
End of week 1
Decide it's not for you in your first week? Full refund, no friction.

Our only ask: 30 minutes of feedback so we know what didn't work and the next group runs better.

Built by ex-Meta engineers, with support from the top EAs in the industry.

Every session shaped with working EAs before launch. Nothing generic — every workflow came from an EA actually running a GP's, founder's, or CEO's day.

Michael Novati
Founder and CTO
8+ years as Senior Staff Software Engineer @Facebook
Top all-time committer to @Facebook’s codebase during his tenure
Founded Formation to help create more diverse engineering teams

Sophie Novati
Founder and CEO
6+ years as Staff Engineer @Facebook, @Nextdoor
Interviewed and mentored 100+ software engineers
Founded Formation to fix the inequities in the tech industry

Common questions.

How much time will this actually take?

Four 60-minute live sessions over four weeks. No prep — just show up. There's also a fifth bonus session plus additional optional content if you want to go deeper.

Do I need to be technical?

No. Come as you are, and we'll walk you through what you need.

Is this for Chiefs of Staff too?

Yes. The workflows you build — calendar audits, meeting transcripts → tracked tasks, inbox triage, decision queues — tend to overlap with chief-of-staff work. You decide how to apply them, and the bonus session is built for adapting the system to your specific role.

Does my principal need to be involved?

Yes, briefly. We provide a script and walk you through a short conversation to set boundaries and load their context — done live in session, no homework on your end.

What happens when a new AI tool ships?

Your vault is plain markdown — it travels. When the next AI ships, you point your foundation at it and the system keeps working. Lifetime alumni access means every content update is included.

How exactly does the refund work?

100% refund any time through end of week 1, no questions asked. Our only ask is a 30-minute user research call so we know what didn't work and the next group runs better.

Can my company sponsor my seat?

Yes — strongly recommended. Send your exec the principal page and ask them to cover it. Tax-deductible as professional development.

Who is Formation?

Founded by ex-Facebook engineers Sophie Novati and Michael Novati. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Kapor Capital. We've spent years preparing engineers for the world's top tech companies with live sessions, group accountability, and hands-on practice. Now we're developing on the cutting edge of AI, helping professionals navigate the biggest workplace transition in a generation — starting with EAs.

Hours back every week. An AI foundation that compounds.