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Learn to manage a digital teammate.

AnilCyborg ek tool nahi — ek teammate hai. Aur teammates ko manage karna ek skill hai. Aliens School free playbooks, short courses, aur live workshops chalata hai jo bataate hain: kaise onboard karein, kaise delegate karein, kaise review karein, kaise scale karein. Customer ho ya nahi — sab kuch free, forever. Yeh hamari mission ka part hai.

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— DAY-1 STARTER PACK

Three reads. One hour. Ready to manage.

Naye user? Yeh teen articles padh lo. 60 minute ke baad aapko pata hoga: kaisa Cyborg hire karna chahiye, pehle din kya bolna hai, aur 30 din baad measure kya karna hai.

01 / FOUNDATION

What is a digital employee, really?

A 12-minute read jo seedha bata deta hai: Cyborg ≠ chatbot, ≠ macro, ≠ junior intern. Yeh ek persistent, identity-bound, integrated team-member hai. Aur usko hire karne ka mindset alag hai.

  • 📖 12 min read
  • 🎯 Founders, hiring managers
  • 🆓 No signup
Read article
02 / FIRST WEEK

Day-1 onboarding playbook

Ek concrete, copy-paste-able 5-step checklist: access, context docs, first task, review cadence, success metric. Includes a sample Slack intro message and a 7-day acceptance criteria template.

  • 📖 18 min read
  • 🎯 Engineering / ops leads
  • 🆓 + downloadable PDF
Read playbook
03 / 30-DAY REVIEW

Measuring a Cyborg, the right way

Output count se aage badho. Real metrics: review-pass-rate, escalation-rate, tasks autonomously completed, hours saved, and the one anti-metric you should track to avoid blind delegation.

  • 📖 14 min read
  • 🎯 Managers · finance · founders
  • 🆓 + spreadsheet template
Read & download
— THE LIBRARY · 48 GUIDES

Browse by topic, role, or stage.

Filter chips se topic ya role pick karo — grid live update hoti hai. Sab articles fully free, koi email-wall nahi.

GETTING STARTED

What is a digital employee, really?

Cyborg vs chatbot vs macro vs intern. A clean mental model in 12 minutes.

12 MIN · A'NIL NAYAK · MAR 2026 GETTING STARTED

Day-1 onboarding playbook

Access, context, first task, cadence, metric — the 5-step canonical setup.

18 MIN · PRIYA S. · FEB 2026 GETTING STARTED

Picking the right first role to hire

Ek decision tree taaki aap pehla Cyborg sahi role me hire karein, na ki "all of them".

9 MIN · ARJUN K. · APR 2026 GETTING STARTED

Writing a Cyborg job description

Kaisi clarity chahiye task spec me — with 3 real before/after examples.

11 MIN · DESIGN TEAM · APR 2026 GETTING STARTED

The 7-day trial: how to actually evaluate

Free trial ke 7 din me aapko exactly kya measure karna chahiye, day-by-day.

10 MIN · NEHA P. · APR 2026 MANAGING

Delegation that doesn't backfire

Three delegation patterns that work and one famous one (“just figure it out”) that doesn't.

15 MIN · A'NIL NAYAK · MAR 2026 MANAGING

Measuring a Cyborg, the right way

Output count chodo. Track these 5 metrics + 1 anti-metric for honest signal.

14 MIN · DATA TEAM · MAR 2026 MANAGING

The weekly 1:1 with your Cyborg

Yes, you should have one. Here's the agenda template with 6 standard questions.

8 MIN · OPS TEAM · APR 2026 MANAGING

Code review with an AI engineer

Reviewing a Cyborg's PR ka mindset. Trust calibration, blast-radius checks, taste tests.

17 MIN · ENG TEAM · MAR 2026 MANAGING

When to escalate vs. when to autonomy

Escalation thresholds set karna — examples for support, sales, eng, finance Cyborgs.

12 MIN · A'NIL NAYAK · APR 2026 MANAGING

Giving feedback to a Cyborg

Specific, scoped, sticky. Aur "just be more careful" type feedback kyun useless hai.

9 MIN · PEOPLE OPS · APR 2026 SCALING

From 1 Cyborg to 10: the team mesh

Multi-Cyborg orchestration. Roles, handoffs, shared context, escalation chains.

22 MIN · A'NIL NAYAK · MAR 2026 SCALING

The hybrid org chart

Humans + Cyborgs in one org chart — reporting lines, RACI, accountability questions answered.

14 MIN · OPS TEAM · APR 2026 SCALING

Budgeting Cyborgs alongside salaries

Finance side: kaise budget karein, kaise allocate, kaise board ko explain karein.

11 MIN · FINANCE TEAM · APR 2026 SCALING

Avoiding the “auto-everything” trap

Sab kuch automate karne ki temptation, aur woh kab company ko hurt karti hai.

13 MIN · A'NIL NAYAK · APR 2026 SECURITY & TRUST

The IT admin's checklist for AI teammates

20-point checklist — before you grant your first OAuth scope to an AI.

16 MIN · SEC TEAM · MAR 2026 SECURITY & TRUST

Reading a vendor SOC 2 report

Kya dhoondhna hai SOC 2 me — non-auditors ke liye 12-min crash course.

12 MIN · COMPLIANCE · APR 2026 SECURITY & TRUST

Data residency for global teams

EU, India DPDP, US, Singapore — region-locking your Cyborg's storage and compute.

15 MIN · INFRA TEAM · APR 2026 SECURITY & TRUST

Audit logs you should actually read

Logs sab dump karte hain. Yeh 6 patterns weekly check karo.

10 MIN · SEC TEAM · APR 2026 BY ROLE · ENGINEERING

Pair-programming with a Cyborg engineer

Best practices for senior engineers reviewing a Cyborg's PRs daily.

16 MIN · ENG TEAM · MAR 2026 BY ROLE · DESIGN

Working with a Cyborg designer

Design briefs, taste calibration, when to override Figma suggestions.

12 MIN · DESIGN TEAM · APR 2026 BY ROLE · SALES

Outbound with a Cyborg SDR

Voice, ICP, sequence cadence — how to keep it human-feeling at 10x volume.

13 MIN · GTM TEAM · APR 2026 BY ROLE · SUPPORT

Tier-1 support, fully delegated

What a Cyborg owns, what humans own, escalation thresholds, and KPIs.

14 MIN · CX TEAM · APR 2026 BY ROLE · FINANCE

Closing the books with a Cyborg accountant

Reconciliations, GST/VAT, audit trail. Where humans must still sign.

11 MIN · FINANCE TEAM · APR 2026 ADVANCED

Custom skills for your Cyborg

Defining custom Skills (recipes) — schema, examples, testing harness.

25 MIN · DEV REL · APR 2026 ADVANCED

Building a custom connector

OAuth flow, scopes, webhook handlers — for tools not in the catalog.

28 MIN · DEV REL · APR 2026 ADVANCED

Eval harness: testing your Cyborg

Setting up regression tests for your Cyborg's behavior — like CI for AI.

21 MIN · ENG TEAM · APR 2026 ADVANCED

Multi-Cyborg orchestration patterns

Parent-child, peer mesh, shared scratchpad — three architectures with tradeoffs.

30 MIN · A'NIL NAYAK · APR 2026
— STRUCTURED · 6 SHORT COURSES

Want a deeper path? Take a course.

Each course = 6–10 short videos (8 min avg) + downloadable workbook + completion certificate (Aliens School verified). Self-paced, free.

C-101 BEGINNER

Cyborg Fundamentals

What a Cyborg is, how it differs from chatbots, and how to think about hiring one. 6 videos · 48 min total.

  • 1. The mental model
  • 2. Identity & persistence
  • 3. Roles vs skills
  • 4. Permissions & scope
  • 5. Cost & ROI
  • 6. Common mistakes
⌖ 4,200 enrolled Start course →
C-201 INTERMEDIATE

Managing AI Teammates

Day-to-day craft of running Cyborgs alongside humans. 8 videos · 70 min total.

  • 1. Onboarding rituals
  • 2. Task scoping
  • 3. Reviews that scale
  • 4. Feedback loops
  • 5. Escalation paths
  • 6. Weekly cadence
  • 7. Performance metrics
  • 8. When to retire
⌖ 2,800 enrolled Start course →
C-202 INTERMEDIATE

Security for IT Admins

OAuth, scopes, audit logs, DPAs. From a CISO mindset. 6 videos · 55 min total.

  • 1. Threat model
  • 2. OAuth review
  • 3. Reading SOC 2
  • 4. Data residency
  • 5. Audit logs
  • 6. Incident response
⌖ 1,650 enrolled Start course →
C-301 ADVANCED

Scaling to a Cyborg Team

From 1 Cyborg to 10. Orchestration, RACI, hybrid orgs. 7 videos · 65 min total.

  • 1. Multi-Cyborg patterns
  • 2. Hybrid org chart
  • 3. Handoff protocols
  • 4. Shared context
  • 5. Budget & finance
  • 6. Change management
  • 7. Failure recovery
⌖ 920 enrolled Start course →
C-302 ADVANCED

Custom Skills & Connectors

For developers — extend the Cyborg with custom code. 9 videos · 95 min total.

  • 1. Skill schema
  • 2. Auth flows
  • 3. Connectors API
  • 4. Webhooks
  • 5. Testing harness
  • 6. Versioning
  • 7. Publishing
  • 8. Observability
  • 9. Best practices
⌖ 540 enrolled Start course →
C-401 FOUNDERS

The 10-Year Mission

A'nil's personal masterclass: why Cyborgs matter for civilization. 6 videos · 50 min total.

  • 1. The repetitive-work trap
  • 2. Multi-planetary lens
  • 3. Free education leverage
  • 4. Profit → Foundation loop
  • 5. What we'll never do
  • 6. Your role in this
⌖ 6,400 enrolled Start course →
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Hamare engineers + A'nil khud live join karte hain. Zoom, 75 min, recorded for those who can't attend. Capped at 100 seats so Q&A actually works.

  • Open AMAs — ask anything about Cyborgs, security, the mission.
  • Role deep-dives — one role per session, real internal benchmarks shared.
  • Customer hours — for paying teams, advanced patterns + roadmap previews.
  • Founder office hours — once a quarter, A'nil takes 90 min of your hardest questions.
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