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Make AI part of how you work.

I use AI to build software, publish, and help run All Things AI. AIOS brings what I learn into a practical book you can use.

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By Mark R. HinkleCo-founder, All Things AI · Founder, The AIE Network
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THE PRACTICAL FIELD GUIDEBuild · Test · Improve
  1. 01
    Questions from real workWhat are people trying to do?
  2. 02
    Experiments & reviewWhat holds up when we try it?
  3. 03
    Lessons you can useBring them into your own work

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265pages of practical guidance

3paths for different kinds of work

32waypoints to put it into practice

Field notes / All Things AI

Honed in the work.
Shared in the room.

Workshops, conversations, and the work behind our events help sharpen AIOS. Here is how those experiences connect to the principles in the book.

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Bring the whole room into itA full house at the Carolina Theatre · All Things Open AI 2025
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The conversations keep goingConversations between sessions · All Things AI 2026 · Durham
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Learn with other peopleFrom the stage to the room · Carolina Theatre · All Things Open AI 2025
The 2025 conference The All Things AI community
01Sort + MatchStart with the work. Then choose the tool.

Build an Agent Day · Charlotte · July 28, 2026

Mark led a workshop on choosing agent platforms for real tasks, writing reusable instructions, and applying S.M.A.R.T. The starting point was a useful workflow people could recognize in their own jobs.

Bring it to your workName the task, the context, and what a good result looks like before you pick an assistant.

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02Automate + RefineTurn a useful first result into a repeatable process.

All Things AI · Behind the events

The team uses AI to build its website and ConferenceOS, and to help edit videos and create advertising. Those real projects make it possible to examine the work, improve it, and bring the experience back into teaching.

Bring it to your workKeep the instructions and context that worked. Review the next result against the same standard.

See how we use AI
03Take ControlGive AI a job. Keep responsibility for the result.

All Things AI · From workshop to publication

The Charlotte workshop included reviewing outputs and deciding what people should approve. In the team's own work, people set direction, test the experience, and decide what is ready to publish.

Bring it to your workMake the approval point explicit. A finished draft is a prompt to review, not permission to publish.

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The model, at a glance

Give your AI
a system to work in.

Useful AI needs context, clear instructions, access to the work, and a person accountable for the result. The BASIC Stack connects those pieces.

BASIC is the system.
S.M.A.R.T. is how you delegate work to it.

Explore the five layers

The BASIC Stack

  1. B

    Brain

    Your knowledge, ready to use

  2. A

    Assistants

    The intelligence doing the work

  3. S

    Skills

    Instructions worth repeating

  4. I

    Interface

    Connected to where work happens

  5. C

    Controls

    Your standards and approval points

One workflow. Five connected layers.

One book. Your starting point.

Find your way in.

Read the whole book, or start where you can make a difference today. Every path turns an idea into a next step.

01

For leaders

Rebuild how your business works.

Choose a workflow, give it an owner, and define what success looks like.

The enterprise path
02

For professionals

Make AI part of your daily practice.

Start within your own authority. Turn a useful result into a skill you can repeat.

The knowledge worker path
03

For builders

Connect the pieces. Prove they work.

Build the context, tools, skills, and controls that a dependable workflow needs.

The builder path
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From the AIOS workbench

Try one useful thing.

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Mark Hinkle on the main stage · All Things Open AI 2025, Durham.

Practical guide · Choose your first task

How to choose your first AI workflow

Choose a useful first AI workflow with a five-question worksheet, a worked event example, and a simple way to measure whether it improves your work.

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Igor Jablokov and Mark Hinkle in conversation · All Things AI 2026, Durham.

Practical guide · Keep people responsible

A human approval checklist for AI workflows

Decide what your AI may prepare and what a person must approve. Use a practical checklist, an event publishing example, and a copyable approval record.

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Mark R. Hinkle, author of AIOS
Author. Builder. All Things AI co-founder.

Meet the author

Mark R. Hinkle

Making emerging technology useful has been the work for more than 30 years.

Mark is the founder of The AIE Network, co-founder of All Things AI, and author of The AI Enterprise newsletter. His career spans Linux, open source, cloud computing, and AI.

AIOS brings that experience into a practical operating model. Its principles are sharpened in the work of building software, publishing, and teaching professionals at All Things AI events.

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