October 7 - November 8, 2025

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Money-back guarantee

Anytime within 48 hours of the first lesson, just contact me, ask for a refund, and let me know how I let you down. I'll give you your money back.

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⚠️ Important Warning:
This is not a beginner course. It’s not even for intermediate Tana users. If you’re not already very familiar with Tana, this course is not for you. Tana for Advanced Builders is designed for advanced builders — people who are already comfortable with Tana and want to master its deepest technical capabilities, or who are ready to become that kind of builder.

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Enrollment Details

• Seats limited to 15 students for personal attention.

• All sessions recorded and yours for life.

• Lifetime access to the cohort forum + resources.

• Extended after-hours Q&A at the end of every session — often running well past 90 minutes.

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Learn to design, build, and launch advanced Tana systems — mastering both the invisible infrastructure and the visible experiences that set your work apart.

This 5-week, 10-session cohort is the definitive training ground for advanced Tana builders. You’ll learn how to really leverage supertags, floating fields, dynamic prompts, and Human–Agent Experience Design to create systems that feel simple on the surface but run on hidden architectures of immense power. You’ll also gain product thinking, usability frameworks, and go-to-market strategies that transform projects into products.

Along the way, Simon contributes his expertise in vaults, iconography, and structural packaging, rounding out the experience with complementary perspectives.

Whether your goal is to:

• Sell premium Tana templates,

• Become your team’s in-house Tana specialist, or

• Push your personal workspace to the bleeding edge

this course gives you the skills and confidence to do it.

Who It’s For

• Advanced Tana users ready to move from tinkering to full-stack design.

• Builders who want to master invisible infrastructure as well as visible polish.

• Team leads aiming to provide enterprise-grade reliability for their org.

• Entrepreneurs who want to package and sell truly differentiated solutions.

Core Promise

Tana for Advanced Builders turns strong users into elite builders.

You’ll learn how to:

• Construct Shadow Architectures with taxonomic tags, tag extensions, and floating fields.

• Create Invisible Infrastructure that hides plumbing while powering intuitive experiences.

• Use Terminal Tags to deliver clean, usable entry points for end users and AI agents.

• Master functional queries, contextual queries, and dynamic prompts to automate and adapt.

• Apply Human–Agent Experience Design to deliver solutions that are optimally usable by people and AI.

• Package builds into Generative Frameworks and Recursive Systems that scale infinitely.

Program Structure

• Duration: 5 weeks (10 sessions)

• 6 Lessons: Deep instruction from Nick (with Simon guest teaching one).

• 4 Peer Labs: Hands-on sessions where you apply, present, and refine your builds.

• Cadence: 2 sessions per week (Tues/Wed + Fri/Sat, scheduled by cohort poll).

• Format: All sessions are 90 minutes, recorded, and followed by optional after-hours Q&A — often extending well beyond the scheduled time.

• Community: Private cohort forum + lifetime access to recordings.

Key Benefits

• Deep Technical Mastery: Learn Shadow Architecture, Hidden Graph design, functional + contextual queries, dynamic prompts, floating/meta-fields, and vault systems.

• Invisible Infrastructure: Create back-end power structures that expose only what users need, while hiding the plumbing.

• Terminal Tags & Usability Structures: Design intuitive front-facing tags and affordances that make complex builds usable.

• Meta-Design Principles: Build Recursive Systems and Generative Frameworks that empower others to create.

• Packaging & Polish: Apply signifiers, iconography, and structural clarity for product-ready builds.

• Market Strategy: Gain frameworks for pricing, positioning, messaging, and launch sequencing.

• Interactive Application: Four Peer Labs ensure you don’t just learn — you apply, stress-test, and refine.

• Extended Access: After-hours discussions keep the conversation going until every question is addressed.

Curriculum at a Glance

Week 1 – Builder’s Mindset & Shadow Architecture
Identify problems worth solving, adopt the mindset of a full-stack builder, and lay down invisible scaffolds with taxonomic tags and floating fields. Start building Shadow Architecture from day one.

Week 2 – Advanced Queries & The Hidden Graph
Master functional queries, contextual queries, and dynamic prompts. Learn how to expose and manipulate the Hidden Graph — relationships most Tana users never touch.

Week 3 – Invisible Infrastructure & Usability Structures
Implement system settings (local + global), usability structures, and intuitive signifiers. Build Invisible Infrastructure: vaults, tag extensions, and meta-fields that power Terminal Tags for end users and AI.

Week 4 – From Systems to Generative Frameworks
Transform technical builds into Experience Engines. Package complexity into Generative Frameworks, design Recursive Systems, and refine positioning so your builds communicate their value.

Week 5 – Go-to-Market & Beyond
Move from builder to product launcher: messaging, pricing psychology, delivery models, and launch sequencing. Present your final build in the culminating Peer Lab.

Session-by-Session Breakdown

Week 1

• Lesson 1: Builder’s Mindset & Problem Identification — framing problems as system design challenges; intro to Shadow Architecture.

• Lesson 2: Solution Generation & Functional Foundations — taxonomic tags + floating fields; scaffolds for recursive builds.

Week 2

• Lesson 3: Functional Queries, Contextual Queries & Dynamic Prompts — advanced automation; state-aware builds; working with the Hidden Graph.

• Peer Lab 1: Present early problem–solution builds; apply advanced queries; receive structured peer + instructor feedback.

Week 3

• Lesson 4: Human–Agent Experience Design & Invisible Infrastructure — system settings, usability structures, tag extensions, and vaults; Terminal Tags as front-facing power.

• Peer Lab 2: Test advanced builds; refine usability and settings; integrate iconography and signifiers.

Week 4

• Lesson 5: Generative Frameworks, Recursive Systems & Positioning — design Experience Engines; package into generative frameworks; frame and communicate value.

• Peer Lab 3: Present product-ready builds; refine polish, usability, and messaging through live feedback.

Week 5

• Lesson 6: Go-to-Market & Delivery — messaging, pricing psychology, promotion strategies, delivery flows.

• Peer Lab 4 (Final): Present final builds or product concepts; receive full critique and next-step guidance.

Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will:
✔ Build advanced, automated systems with Shadow Architecture, Hidden Graph design, and dynamic prompts.
✔ Master Invisible Infrastructure (system settings, vaults, tag extensions, floating/meta-fields) while delivering clean Terminal Tags for end users.
✔ Package solutions with usability structures, signifiers, and polished interfaces.
✔ Design Generative Frameworks and Recursive Systems that scale infinitely.
✔ Communicate and deliver builds effectively — whether for teams, customers, or the market.
✔ Gain repeatable frameworks for pricing, launch, and iteration.

Why This Course Is Different

• Unapologetically advanced — every week introduces techniques most builders have never imagined.

• Two expert perspectives — Nick’s product and systems thinking + Simon’s vaults and packaging.

• Future-proofed for AI — Human–Agent Experience Design is built into every stage.

• Interactive + Extended — 6 lessons + 4 Peer Labs, all with after-hours for deeper dives.

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Glossary of Advanced Terms

• Shadow Architecture: The invisible scaffolding (tags, fields, structures) that powers your system behind the scenes.

• Hidden Graph: The layer of relationships and structures in Tana that most users never touch — surfaced through advanced queries and fields.

• Taxonomic Tags: Tags used to define categories and typologies within your system (part of invisible infrastructure).

• Tag Extensions: Tags that inherit or extend functionality from others, used to inject power into systems at the right level.

• Terminal Tags: The colored, end-user-facing tags — what people and AI agents actually use day to day.

• Floating Fields: Fields not bound to a single tag, freely attachable/detachable for flexibility. Often paired with meta-fields (hidden fields used to track context invisibly).

• System Settings: Structures that allow users to set local or global configurations inside your builds.

• Human–Agent Experience Design (HAXD): Going beyond UX to design for both human users and AI agents.

• Generative Frameworks: Builds that generate endless variations, letting users craft their own experiences.

• Recursive Systems: Systems that can create or modify other systems — multiplying their own power.

• Vaults: A structured mechanism for storing and retrieving data at exactly the right time and place.

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Here's a tiny sample of the type of things you'll learn ⤵️