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FOCUSED AGENTIC DESIGNERS

Your next hire isn't human.
It's your AI team.

I teach designers and business owners how to build their own AI staff, step by step - agents you own that handle the busywork, so you get more done, win more clients, and grow without hiring.

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// 8 agents running  ·  1 owner directing  ·  building in public

THE SKOOL COMMUNITY

What is FOCUSED Agentic Designers?

FAD is a Skool community where I teach designers and business owners how to build their own AI team - step by step, no engineering degree required. This isn't software you rent: you learn it, you build it, you own it.

THE COURSE

Learn to build it, step by step

Nine modules that take you from zero to a working AI staff - operations, marketing, finance, and more. I teach, you build, and every lesson ends with something running inside your business.

THE COMMUNITY

Owners learning the same thing

Designers, architects, and service business owners swapping what actually works: prompts, workflows, tools, and honest results. Ask anything, get answers from people in your seat.

THE PROOF

Watch me run mine, live

I use the exact AI team from the course to run John Kaplar LLC. Every win, every miss, every number - shared inside the community and on Instagram as it happens.

The FAD classroom on Skool, showing the nine course modules

INSIDE THE CLASSROOM

Nine modules. One working AI team.

  1. Start Here
  2. Build the Business & Assets
  3. Claude
  4. Your Build Stack & Security
  5. Your AI HQ: The Dashboard
  6. Hire Your AI Staff: The Agents
  7. Skills & Capabilities
  8. Always-On Operations
  9. Capstone: Build

Prefer a head start? An optional starter platform, customized to your business, is available inside - but the course teaches you to build every piece yourself.

Try everything free for 7 days

Full access to the course, the community, and the live build. If it's not for you, cancel before day 7 and pay nothing.

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No commitment. Cancel anytime.

BUILDING IN PUBLIC

One business. $1M ARR. Zero human hires.

John Kaplar LLC is run by the same AI team I teach you to build inside FAD. The agents handle operations, marketing, finance, legal, and sales. I direct.

The goal: $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue with no human employees, every profit reinvested until we get there. Every product launch, every number, and every mistake is shared in real time - so you're not buying a promise, you're watching the proof.

GOAL $1M ARR HUMAN HIRES 0 PROFITS REINVESTED 100%
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BUILT FOR

The people who run the business

The system is fully customizable - the same playbook adapts to whatever your business actually does.

Interior Designers

Proposals, sourcing, and client updates - handled.

Kitchen + Bath Designers

Specs, quotes, and vendor follow-ups on autopilot.

Landscape Designers

Estimates, scheduling, and seasonal marketing.

Architects

RFPs, documentation, and project coordination.

Service Businesses

Any owner drowning in admin, email, and follow-up.

TECHNOLOGY

What does my AI team run on?

The same modern stack real software companies use - and you set it up in accounts you own. The course teaches every step.

Claude

BY ANTHROPIC

The intelligence. Claude powers your agents - reading, writing, planning, and doing real work with the judgment to know when to ask you first.

Supabase

YOUR DATABASE

The memory. Your clients, projects, and records live in your own database with your own login - not inside somebody else's product.

Vercel

YOUR HOSTING

The home. Your AI HQ dashboard deploys to your own hosting account - push a change, and your command center updates in seconds.

Secure, because you own all of it

Nothing here is a black box you rent a seat in. The code, the data, and the accounts it all runs on belong to you - so there's no vendor who can raise the price, change the rules, or lock you out of your own operation. And because you built it, you can change it: the whole system is fully customizable to the way your business actually works.

John Kaplar

ABOUT

Who is John Kaplar?

John Kaplar teaches designers and business owners how to build their own AI teams.

I spent 18 years as a software developer and executive - writing code, then leading the teams and businesses that shipped it. I learned how technology actually gets adopted inside a company: not with hype, but with systems that quietly do the work.

Then I changed careers entirely and went into design and 3D modeling. I built FOCUSED SketchUp to teach designers 3D modeling, and I run Arched Manor. Living on both sides - the software side and the design side - is exactly why FAD exists: I speak designer, and I speak machine.

Now those two careers have converged. AI agents finally let a small business run like it has a full staff, and I'm proving it in public with John Kaplar LLC.

18 YRS SOFTWARE DEV + EXEC 2 DESIGN BUSINESSES 1 AI TEAM

// LEARN IT ONCE · OWN IT FOREVER

You direct. Your agents do the work.

WORK WITH ME

Want it installed with you?

The community teaches you to build it yourself. For owners who want it done together, I install and configure AI teams hands-on - a handful of businesses at a time, and when the slots are full, they are full.

About working together

SPEAKING

Book John for your stage

Keynotes and workshops on AI teams, agentic business, and what AI actually changes for the design industry - owner-to-owner, grounded in a company really run this way.

Speaking inquiries

FAQ

Questions, answered straight

Do you build my AI team for me, or teach me to build it?

I teach you to build it - that's the whole point. FAD is a course and community, not a software product: you build your own AI team, step by step, in accounts you own. If you want a head start, there's an optional starter platform customized to your business, and I install teams hands-on for a small number of companies through Work With Me.

Do I need to be technical to build an AI team?

No. FAD is built for designers and business owners, not engineers. If you can write an email describing what you want done, you can direct an AI agent. The course walks you through every setup step, and the community is there when you get stuck.

What happens in the free 7-day trial?

You get full access to everything - the course, the community, and the live build of John Kaplar LLC. Start the course, meet the members, and build your first AI agent. If it's not for you, cancel inside Skool before day 7 and you pay nothing.

What tools do I need?

A computer, an internet connection, and roughly the cost of one software subscription. The course teaches a specific, modern stack - Claude, Supabase, and Vercel - and shows you exactly how to set up each account, step by step. No coding environment of your own, no servers, nothing exotic.

How much time does it take each week?

A few focused hours. Most members build their first working agent in their first week. After that, your AI team gives time back - the whole point is that the business runs with less of you, not more.

Will this work for my kind of business?

If your week fills up with proposals, follow-ups, content, scheduling, and bookkeeping, yes. FAD members are interior, kitchen and bath, and landscape designers, architects, and service business owners. The system is fully customizable: the same playbook adapts to whatever your business actually does.

What happens after the trial?

Your membership converts to the regular monthly rate through Skool, and you keep full access to the course, the community, and the live build. Cancel anytime inside Skool - no calls, no hoops.

JOIN THE FAD.

They'll call it a fad.
You'll call it your staff.

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