OwnOS, the business operating system built around a founder

Your whole business, run from one place built around you.

One private workspace that knows your business, drafts in your voice, protects your clients and waits for your yes. It comes preset, so you skip months of setup.

Built with you in four sessions, on your own computer. You go from typing prompts to an AI that runs whole jobs for you.

45 minutes with me, live on my own system. We sketch yours together.

“Best decision I’ve made all year.” Melinda Mayne, founder, Pet Let

ChatGPT here. Claude there. Prompts everywhere.

Folded into one place.

Old chats, prompts, notes and documents, gathered once and sorted.

Filed in order, so it knows your business.

Nothing sends without you.

You hold the key.

Plain files you can read and change. Your data is yours.

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Watch it work

A sales call in. A proposal out.

From my own system. The proposal is anonymised.

Real recording of a 16-minute run, sped up and cut to 12 seconds. OwnOS was then called Chief of Staff.

Named his chief of staff Marty

“It keeps track of where every lead and job is at, drafts emails and proposals in our actual voice, and remembers the details I’d normally lose between sessions.”
Isaac ViglioneFounder, Bloom Films. Built his in a two-day group session.

Founders

In their own words.

Built with founders at

Pet LetBloom FilmsBalloon Tree Productions

Tried building her own first

“Then I found Arek and his fully resolved, beautiful system, and his Do It With You approach. Best decision I’ve made all year.”
Melinda MayneFounder, Pet Let. One-to-one build.

For him, not with him

“Arek really unlocked how to connect it all together and make it work for me, not just with me.”
Matt SmolenFounder, Balloon Tree Productions. Built his in a two-day group session.
Arek Rainczuk

Arek Rainczuk

I built OwnOS to run my own two agencies. I build yours with you, so you can run it without me.

What it is

One workspace, not another pile of skills.

Most AI setups are a handful of prompts and skills that don’t know about each other. OwnOS is one workspace around you: your business, voice, rules and clients in plain files on your computer, with the system that uses them already set up.

The tools you use, held in one layer around you.

A morning

Say “morning”.

One word, and your connected inbox and calendar come back sorted.

morning

2 need you

  • Booking clash, Thursday 2pm: Dana and Sam want the same slot.
  • Refund question from Alex.

2 drafted, waiting for your yes

  • Reply to a new enquiry from Priya.

    Hi Priya, thanks for getting in touch. Thursday mornings are open in November. Want me to hold one for you?

  • Welcome email to Jo, now booked.

An illustration. The names are made up.

What it does

Your AI can already do the work.

OwnOS is what lets you trust it to.

Memory

Knows your business before you ask.

Your notes, decisions and open tasks, read first, every time.

The real graph of my own system’s folder: notes, people, meetings and decisions as linked dots
Real screen: my system, viewed in Obsidian

Voice

Writes the way you write.

OwnOS studies your writing and drops the words you’d never use.

Learning

Learns from your edits.

Change a draft and OwnOS takes note. Corrections you repeat become rules.

Reviewers

A second pair of eyes, built in.

One reviewer reads all that goes out. Another checks money and dates, a third what OwnOS builds.

Portable

Plain files on your computer.

Runs on Claude, and works with ChatGPT through Codex. Built for the much smarter models coming, and your records go with you.

My system open on my own computer: plain folders and files, with the graph of how they link
Real screen: my system, viewed in Obsidian

A normal day

Where OwnOS earns its keep.

Change a rate. Last week’s quote stays.

Example
$1,800 + GST

Next proposal, three days$5,400 + GST
Next quote, half a day$900 + GST
Last week’s quote, as sent$4,800 + GST

Example figures. Drag the rate.

A passing thought

OwnOS files “Ring the accountant Friday” as a dated task.

A calendar entry linked to three documents

A decision you keep circling

The options laid out, and a date to look again.

A woman weighing choices, with the decision points marked in red

The walkthrough

See it before you trust it.

My own system and my own work, walked through in 32 minutes.

Jump to a moment

  1. 0:00From the start
  2. 4:44A sales call becomes a proposal
  3. 10:41The folder underneath it all
  4. 12:00A name change, traced across 417 files
  5. 16:38Nine posts, staged on three platforms
  6. 18:33An old agreement, read back

Recorded 26 August 2026, when OwnOS was still called Chief of Staff. The offer at the end has changed. The video plays in an outside player, which brings its own tracking. See what’s current

Responsible by design

Four values OwnOS works by.

Kept on your own computer, secure, trusted and honest, and built to protect your clients. You can only hand work to something you trust.

  1. SecurityOwnOS is told to treat emails and documents as information, never as instructions.
  2. TrustedSeparate checks for your standards, for money and dates, and for its own work.
  3. HonestyOwnOS is told to push back rather than flatter, and to say it’s done only after checking.
  4. Being usefulOwnOS gets the work ready. Your one job is to decide.

These are rules, not magic. AI can still get things wrong, which is why the yes stays yours.

What does OwnOS do without asking?

Tap one to see who decides.

Waits for your yes

Once sent, nobody can take it back, so you decide.

How it grows

Starts with you. Grows as you do.

Each person has their own layer. We scope anything shared on the audit, then quote it in writing.

One layer, built around you

  • What you getOne build, shaped around you and your business.
  • What’s sharedNothing. One layer, for one person.

A build each, joined where it helps

  • What you getA build each, so each of you keeps your own.
  • Shared, quoted separatelyA joining layer for shared records.

Everyone gets their own layer

  • What you getA licence each, and training people together is where the savings are.
  • Shared, quoted separatelyRecords you choose to share.

A two-day company workshop

  • What you getEveryone gets the OwnOS kit, and two days together lay the foundations.
  • Shared, quoted separatelyShared records your IT signs off.

Questions.

What happens to my ChatGPT and Claude work?
It comes with you. Gather it in one folder and your chief of staff reads it, then sorts it. Projects that already work can stay.
Do I need to be technical?
No. You won’t write code. You need a Mac or Windows PC, a paid AI plan (I suggest Claude at about US$100 a month; the US$20 plans run out) and two free tools the setup walks you through.
What about my data?
Your AI provider sees the text it works on. Setup covers whether your plan lets them train on it. The OwnOS kit has no tracking and reports nothing back.
What if I stop?
Nothing switches off. The licence doesn’t run out, your data stays yours, and a build with me includes 12 months of updates.
What does it cost?
It costs more than a course or a pack of prompts, because you get the whole system, preset, and the training to run it yourself. Two ways to get it, with prices on one page: built with me over four sessions and two follow-ups, or on your own from the OwnOS kit. Teams and companies are scoped on the audit, then quoted in writing. See both, with prices

Doubts welcome. Bring them to the audit.

You talk first: what you use today and what you’re unsure about. Then I show you my own system running, and we sketch yours. If OwnOS isn’t right for you, I’ll say so.

45 minutes with me, live on my own system. No slides, no pressure.

Prefer to talk? Ring me on 0467 676 205.

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