Part 2: Building Your Company OS

You have Cursor and Claude Code installed. Now let's build something useful. This guide will interactively guide you through taking the starter kit and building your very own Company OS.

After following the steps, you will have a V1 of a persistent brain that makes Claude actually know your business and able to take action within it.

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Company OS Starter Kit
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The Architecture

Here's what you're building. CLAUDE.md sits at the top (your AI's brain), skills and hooks in the middle, tools at the bottom.

Company OS Architecture

Every time Claude starts a session, it reads CLAUDE.md. That file points to your company context, your skills, and your tool connections. No more re-explaining yourself every conversation.

Step 1: Get the Starter Kit

We built a starter kit with everything you need. Templates, skills, hooks, folder structure.

GitHub Repo

Terminal commands:

git clone <https://github.com/Workflowsio/company-os-starter-kit.git>
mkdir company-os && cd company-os && git init

Or just ask Claude:

Clone the starter kit from
github.com/Workflowsio/company-os-starter-kit
then create me a new private repo
called company-os and copy everything
into it.

This is YOUR Company OS, not a fork. Clone the starter kit, copy what you need, build your own.

Here's the folder structure you're building:

company-os/
├── CLAUDE.md           # The hub (loaded every session, points to everything)
├── INDEX.md            # Content catalog (quick reference)
├── company/            # Core context + brand
│   ├── overview.md     # Who you are, what you do, your ICP
│   ├── team.md         # Roster, roles, responsibilities
│   ├── accounts.md     # Customer/account roster
│   ├── gtm-stack.md    # Your tools and how they connect
│   ├── voice.md        # Brand voice and writing style
│   └── design-system.md # Visual identity
├── wiki/               # Reference docs, playbooks, SOPs, deep-dives
├── gtm-skills/         # AI skill definitions (5 GTM skills)
├── archive/            # Completed projects, old docs
├── raw/                # Input sources (transcripts, data exports)
└── blueprint/          # Template files for every folder (from starter kit)
    └── hooks/          # Safety guard, session logger, notifications

The blueprint/ folder has template files for every folder. Copy the whole thing and fill it in.

Start with just CLAUDE.md and company/overview.md. Everything else comes later.

Step 2: Write Your `CLAUDE.md`

This is the most important file. Claude reads it at the start of every session and follows the references to everything else. It's the central hub that points to your company context, your skills, your tool connections, and your rules. Get this right and everything else falls into place.

What it should include:

The Architecture

Step 1: Get the Starter Kit

Step 2: Write Your CLAUDE.md

Step 2: Write Your `CLAUDE.md`