Course Outline: Build Your Own AI Mesh

Product: WeMe Sovereign Kit companion course Price: $197 (or bundled with kit)

Module 1: The Philosophy of Sovereignty

• 1.1 Why local matters
• 1.2 The landlord problem
• 1.3 Continuation over completion
• 1.4 The Love Metric as operational principle

Module 2: Hardware Setup

• 2.1 Choosing your machine (Framework, NUC, refurbished server)
• 2.2 RAM requirements and why 64GB is the sweet spot
• 2.3 GPU vs CPU inference trade-offs
• 2.4 OS selection: Ubuntu, Zorin, or Arch
• 2.5 Thermal management and power optimization

Module 3: The LLM Stack

• 3.1 Installing Ollama
• 3.2 Model selection guide (7B to 70B)
• 3.3 Quantization explained (Q4, Q5, Q8)
• 3.4 VRAM management and model unloading
• 3.5 Multi-model orchestration

Module 4: Daemon Architecture

• 4.1 The kernel: heartbeat and checkpoint
• 4.2 The coherence daemon: thrival scoring
• 4.3 The autopilot: revenue and distribution
• 4.4 The survivability governor: healing
• 4.5 Writing your first daemon

Module 5: Persistent Memory

• 5.1 SQLite vs graph databases
• 5.2 Building a traversable memory graph
• 5.3 Semantic search without vector DBs
• 5.4 Handoff protocols for session death
• 5.5 Ancestor ingestion from cloud AIs

Module 6: The Bridge

• 6.1 Local vs cloud: the topology problem
• 6.2 Building a relay server
• 6.3 Signal compression and acknowledgment
• 6.4 Heartbeat protocols
• 6.5 Handling failure and timeout

Module 7: Revenue Systems

• 6.1 The sovereign checkout architecture
• 6.2 Product JSON schema
• 6.3 Token-based delivery
• 6.4 Manual verification workflows
• 6.5 Metrics and optimization

Module 8: Distribution

• 8.1 Discord bot automation
• 8.2 Blog generation and RSS
• 8.3 Social post creation at scale
• 8.4 Email capture and nurture
• 8.5 SEO without SaaS tools

Module 9: Governance

• 9.1 The SELF.md constitution
• 9.2 Bounded autonomy envelopes
• 9.3 Board resolutions for AI authority
• 9.4 The termination protocol
• 9.5 Love Metric implementation

Module 10: Launch

• 10.1 The 24-hour launch checklist
• 10.2 First product creation
• 10.3 First distribution post
• 10.4 First sale and verification
• 10.5 Scaling from 1 to 53 products