# Ch 3: Framework 2: the 4 C's (Context, Connections, Capabilities, Cadence)
Creator: Nate Herk (@nateherk)
Transcript of Nate Herk's 2h33m 'Build your own AI operating system' course, split into its chapters. All content and credit: Nate Herk (@nateherk), https://x.com/nateherk/status/2101656269056610682. Transcribed locally with faster-whisper; names may be misheard.

[0:12:00] money. And then we've got connections. So what data can it reach? Claude Code on its own can't really do anything besides search the web, but your business data, especially the important business data you need, isn't available publicly on the web. So you have to give it connections to all of your different tools and all of the different databases where your actual important data lives. And then we have capabilities. What can it produce? What can it do with that data? You know, it has to be useful in some way, not just a knowledge source. And then we have the final C, cadence, when it acts on its own while you sleep and while your laptop is closed. And all of these build on top of each other. You can't have cadence without connections. You can't have capability without context. And you have to go in this order one, two, three, four. And I'm going to show you guys your exact path to get from one to four today. The whole idea is that if you opened up a new cloud chat right now or a new Claude Code session, how much would it know about you if you asked a question? So test it, ask a question and see, does this answer like a teammate or like an executive assistant or is this answering like a stranger who just met you five seconds ago? So here is the four C's of an AIO S and once again, the important part is that tools change every six months, maybe even quicker, but the platform that we're doing right now and the foundation that we're building is going to be able to move across whatever happens. And I think you guys understand what we're getting at here. We're setting up our contacts, which is basically the brain, making sure it knows our business. setting up the connections to make sure that it can touch things, whether that is an MCP or an API or a CLI or, you know, whatever it is, we're setting up the

[0:13:30] connections. The capabilities is that it actually knows how to do things. You know, you have a bunch of SOPs probably already in your business. Can you now give those SOPs to your operating system so that it can do it just as well. And just as consistently as one of your employees does it manually right now. And then of course, the cadence work, it's really, really cool. And it starts to feel more like a 24 seven AI employee for you. And those are the four C's of our AI operating system. And we're gonna be talking about how you can actually test if you have those things in place. And we have a skill inside of the template I'm gonna give you guys where you can run an audit and just make sure that you're good and you can find opportunities to add more connections or add more capabilities and things like that. But for example, if you have connections into your calendar and your tasks and your CRM and your inbox, it should be able to grab all that and help you out. You could ask like, hey, what's on my plate today? or help me plan my day. And it would be able to read through everything, look at your calendar and help you block off things based on your priorities and based on maybe previous conversations you've been having in that week and with the capabilities. Instead of having to drop in like a full, two paragraph brief for what you want, you could basically say, hey, we need a quarter three report and I need it by the end of the day. And it will be able to go do that because it understands your SOP for that. It understands all the business data and there's gonna be less follow up, less back and forth, less of you micromanaging it. So here's a quick snapshot of the pillars, what you might want to do to test, what you would see and kind of be like, okay, this is good, this is a pass, and what you might see and be like, okay, this failed, I need to do some work on this pillar.