Using Mycel

Your first deliverable

This page is for people using the hosted product at app.mycelai.dev. If you are self-hosting the kernel, start at Quickstart instead.

The whole product is one loop: it drafts the recurring work you already send clients, holds it until you sign, and keeps what you changed. Everything below is that loop, once.

1. Show it one thing you have already sent

On the What you sell step there is a second option under the description box: Show us one thing you have already delivered. Use it. A PDF, a Word file, a Markdown note, a CSV — a page or two, under 4MB.

This is the single highest-leverage minute in setup. Describing your service in a text box gets you a draft that reads like a hundred other firms'. A real document you actually sent a real client gets you one that reads like yours — your sections, your order, your level of detail, the things you always mention and the things you never do.

2. Read back what it inferred

Mycel reads that document and writes down what it thinks your practice is — what you deliver, what questions you answer, on what cadence, what you always check before sending. You then see it on the How you work step and correct anything wrong.

Correct it properly. This is not a form; it is the standing instruction every future draft is written against. Until you confirm it, Mycel treats what it inferred as a strong guess rather than a house rule. After you confirm, it is a rule.

You can change it any time later under Knowledge → Practice.

3. Add a client and open a job

A client is who the work is for. A job is one piece of recurring work for that client — an October month-end, a quarterly review, a monthly update. Jobs can be opened by hand or run on a schedule.

4. It drafts, and sometimes it stops

A run reads what that client actually received last time, writes the deliverable, then checks the result against itself. If the draft contradicts its own numbers, or a required section is empty, or a placeholder survived, it is held instead of handed to you clean, with the reason written out.

A hold is the product working, not failing. It is the difference between reading a draft and proofreading one.

5. You sign it

Open the deliverable, read it, edit anything wrong, and release it. That release is the only step Mycel cannot do for you, by construction — see What your client sees.

What happens next month

The next draft starts from the version you approved, not from a blank page, and every edit you made is part of the instruction. That is the compounding claim, and it is measured rather than asserted.