26-lesson course · about 9 hours

Put Meta's Muse to work on your standing tasks. Keep every call yours.

For CEOs, founders, managing directors, business owners and senior leaders

Everything for CEOs

A hands-on course for chief executives. Set up Muse with the least access that works, then run a daily brief, decision prep, goal check-ins and board drafts with tested prompts.

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What you’ll be able to do

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Decide whether Muse fits your work and your company's rulesYou'll weigh the facts as of 2026-10-28: where Muse is available (the US, Canada and Japan), the 18+ age limit, the plans (free with a usage limit, Power at $20/month, Maximum at $100/month), the public incidents since launch and what the Terms prohibit. You'll also learn to check Meta's official pages, because these facts change.
Set it up safely and connect only what it needsYou'll set up a separate account with training turned off and both permission defaults on Always ask. You'll answer approval cards with Allow once or Deny, and your memory will hold your role and working rules but no confidential matters. Once IT approves, you'll connect Gmail and Google Calendar read-only, one at a time. You'll also write down what you will never connect or upload: board, deal, payroll and employee data, a primary email account with send rights, corporate cards and custom connectors.
Get a weekday leadership brief that doesn't turn into a news feedYou'll schedule a morning brief that draws on read-only email and calendar plus a short list of companies and topics you choose to watch. It shows the decisions waiting for you and what to prepare for today's meetings, and any reply drafts wait for your review.
Prepare a live decision without handing it overYou'll work through the chain-contract case and write prompts that tie every claim to a source and mark anything unverified [CHECK]. The prompts also keep an assumptions register and lay out real alternatives with their constraints. You make the call yourself and write down your reasons.
Keep goals, board updates and meetings moving, as drafts that wait for youYou'll turn an annual goal into quarterly milestones with owners by role, and use weekly Goals check-ins to catch changed assumptions and slipped dependencies. You'll draft board and investor updates only from figures you paste in, and produce meeting recaps with a table of decisions, owners and due dates. You do the sending yourself, with no share links.
Check each week what Muse actually didYou'll run a weekly review of the Activity log, Upcoming, Memory, Allowed websites and connectors. Then you'll correct, stop, export or reset anything that doesn't match what you intended.

How it works

A tutor that meets you where you are

  1. Lessons that adapt to your levelEach lesson is a step-by-step tutorial you follow with Muse open. It covers the goal, what you need first, the exact menu names, copy-paste prompts and a checkpoint that shows the step worked. The lessons adjust to what you already know, so you can skip what's familiar and slow down where it isn't.
  2. An AI tutor you can ask anythingType or speak your question: how to word a prompt for your own board update, what an approval card is asking, or what to do when a screen looks different from the lesson. The tutor answers at your level.
  3. Quizzes and flashcards for each lessonShort quizzes and flashcards tied to each lesson help the settings, the never-connect list and the review routine stick before you rely on them.
  4. Progress tracking and a certificateSee where you are across the 26 lessons and pick up where you left off. You get a certificate of completion when you finish.

Curriculum

The curriculum

Twenty-six lessons in nine modules. You decide whether Muse fits, set it up safely and connect only what it needs. Then you build five workflows from your own week and finish with a weekly review routine.

Module 1Is Muse Right for Your Work3 lessons

  1. 1What Muse Is and What It Can Do
    • Distinguish Muse from the Meta AI app, Muse Spark and products with similar names
    • List the Muse capabilities that apply to a CEO's recurring preparation work
    • Name the announced features that are not confirmed as available
  2. 2Access, Plans and Limits as of October 2026
    • Check whether you meet the age and country requirements
    • Choose a plan from the official prices and usage limits
    • Identify the plan and pricing claims that are unverified or that conflict with official figures
  3. 3Incidents, Terms and the Line You Hold
    • Explain what each dated incident teaches about permissions, sharing and how far to trust Muse's account of itself
    • Name the uses the Muse Terms prohibit that matter to a chief executive
    • Decide whether Muse fits your company's rules, and write down which work you will and won't give it

Module 2Safe Setup4 lessons

  1. 4Create a Separate Account and Turn Off Training
    • Create a Muse account kept apart from your personal Meta Accounts Center
    • Turn off Help improve our AI models under Data controls
    • Confirm that training is off and record the date you changed it
  2. 5Set Permissions to Always Ask and Answer Approval Cards
    • Set both permission defaults to Always ask
    • Read an approval card through See task details before answering it
    • Choose between Allow once and Deny, and explain why Always allow is off the table
  3. 6Memory and Identity: What Muse Should Know About You
    • Write a role-and-rules message for the main chat
    • Find and edit Memory, Soul and Identity under the Assistant icon
    • Spot and delete memory entries that hold confidential matters
  4. 7Side Chats and Your First Read-Only Task
    • Create side chats for the brief, decisions, goals, board drafts and meetings
    • Run a first task with the reusable guardrail line
    • Check the Activity log to confirm that nothing was written or sent

Module 3Connect Only What It Needs3 lessons

  1. 8Before You Connect: Approval and the Never-Connect List
    • Draft a request for IT approval that states the exact access you want
    • Check whether your inbox and calendar carry material that must stay out of Muse, and agree a fix with IT or counsel
    • Write a never-connect and never-upload list for your role
    • Explain why primary email with send rights carries extra risk
  2. 9Connect Gmail and Google Calendar Read-Only
    • Connect Gmail with read-only access through Settings > Connectors
    • Connect Google Calendar separately and check its permission screen
    • Ask Muse what each connector can do and what it will ask before acting
  3. 10Optional Meeting Connectors: Granola, Zoom and Notion
    • Decide whether a meeting connector adds enough value to justify the access
    • Connect an approved Granola, Zoom or Notion account with the narrowest scope offered
    • Choose to paste notes manually when a connector isn't approved

Module 4Workflow: The Weekday Leadership Brief3 lessons

  1. 11Write the Leadership Brief Prompt
    • Write a brief prompt that covers decisions needed, today's meetings and up to three news items
    • Limit the watch list to named companies and topics
    • Add read-only and no-action rules to the prompt
  2. 12Schedule the Brief and Confirm It in Upcoming
    • Schedule the brief for weekdays at a set time and time zone
    • Confirm the scheduled task under Upcoming
    • Set the scheduled task's approval settings
    • Answer the scheduled run's approval cards without widening permissions
  3. 13Prune the Brief and Draft Replies for Review
    • Review a week of briefs and tighten the watch list and urgency rules
    • Ask for reply drafts that wait for your review
    • Spot stale, duplicate or misclassified items and correct them in the prompt

Module 5Workflow: Decision Preparation4 lessons

  1. 14Separate the Decision from Its Preparation
    • Write the decision statement for the chain contract case
    • List the preparation tasks Muse may do and the parts that stay yours
    • Set up a decision side chat with the guardrail rules
  2. 15Build a Sourced Evidence Brief with [CHECK] Flags
    • Write a prompt that requires a source or a [CHECK] tag on every claim
    • Separate fact, interpretation and recommendation in the output
    • Verify a sample of the cited sources yourself
  3. 16Keep an Assumptions Register
    • Write a prompt that produces an assumptions table with source, owner and status
    • State what must be true for each option to work
    • Version the register when an assumption changes
  4. 17Lay Out Real Alternatives and Check the Pack
    • Write a prompt for at least three options that really differ, each with its constraint, cost and conditions
    • Spot the signs that an attractive narrative is hiding a cost or condition
    • Write the decision and its reasons yourself, and save the prompts so the method can run again

Module 6Workflow: Goals and the Operating Plan3 lessons

  1. 18Turn an Annual Goal into Quarterly Milestones
    • Write a goal prompt that requires clarifying questions first
    • Review milestones, owners by role, risks and first actions
    • Save the plan in the Goals tab and edit it there
  2. 19Run Weekly Goals Check-Ins
    • Schedule a weekly check-in at a set time and time zone
    • Paste a weekly update and get back the milestones now at risk, with reasons
    • Tell real slippage apart from an unclear or conflicting metric
  3. 20Draft Follow-Ups and Escalations for Approval
    • Write a prompt for follow-up and escalation drafts that are never sent
    • Keep a simple decision log in a side chat or Artifact
    • Ask what was weighed last time before a related call

Module 7Workflow: Board and Investor Update Drafts2 lessons

  1. 21Draft an Investor Update from Approved Figures
    • Choose which figures are approved and safe to paste
    • Write an update prompt with fixed sections and [CHECK] rules
    • Trace every number in the draft back to your input
  2. 22Rewrite for the Board and Release It Yourself
    • Write a rewrite prompt that leads with the decisions needed, in under 300 words
    • Get a list of likely director questions to prepare for
    • Release the final version yourself, without Muse sending it or a share link

Module 8Workflow: Meeting Prep and Follow-Through2 lessons

  1. 23Build a Pre-Meeting Brief
    • Write a pre-meeting brief prompt for a named counterpart
    • Check the cited public sources
    • Separate claims drawn from email from claims backed by public links
  2. 24Capture Decisions, Owners and Dates, Then Send the Recap Yourself
    • Write a recap prompt that outputs a table of decisions, owners and due dates
    • Approve or deny each proposed calendar hold
    • Confirm owners and dates with people before treating them as commitments

Module 9The Weekly Review Routine2 lessons

  1. 25Review the Activity Log and Upcoming
    • Read the Activity log for writes, web visits and permissions
    • Compare the scheduled tasks in Upcoming with your intended list
    • Correct a mismatch, including with any third party affected
  2. 26Prune Memory, Websites and Connectors; Stop, Export or Reset
    • Delete confidential or stale entries from Memory
    • Revoke unneeded Allowed websites and connectors
    • Stop a task, schedule or connector that doesn't match your intent
    • Export your data and run a reset when needed

Who it’s for

Made for you if…

Made for: CEOs, founders, managing directors, business owners and senior leaders

CEOs and managing directors of small and mid-sized companies

Your week is full of repeat preparation: the morning inbox, meeting briefs, operating check-ins and board packs. You want that prep done faster without letting board, deal or employee matters into an unapproved tool.

Founders and business owners

You don't have a chief of staff. You want a careful way to hand off the background prep while every message, commitment and decision stays with you.

Senior leaders who answer to a board or investors

Your updates have to rest on approved numbers. You need drafts you can trace line by line, and you can't risk anything going out under your name without your sign-off.

Questions

Good to know

Who can use Muse?

As of 2026-10-28, you must be 18 or older (or the age of majority where you live) and live in the US, Canada or Japan. Check Meta's official pages before you start, because availability changes. The course doesn't cover VPNs, foreign app-store accounts or any other way around these limits.

Is Muse the same as the Meta AI app?

No. Muse is Meta's personal AI agent, a separate product from the Meta AI app. The first lesson explains the difference and also separates Muse from Muse Spark, the model that runs it.

Do I need a paid Muse plan?

Not necessarily. As of 2026-10-28, Meta lists a free plan with a usage limit, Power at $20/month and Maximum at $100/month. Meta doesn't publish the free limit as a number. The course shows you how to choose a plan and which pricing claims you'll see online are unverified. Muse plans are bought from Meta, separately from this course.

What equipment and accounts do I need?

An iPhone, Android phone, Mac or web browser, plus an email address that isn't tied to an existing Meta account so you can keep Muse separate. If you plan to connect company email, calendar, Slack or Notion, get written approval from IT or your counsel first. Bring one real task you repeat every week.

Will I put board papers, deal plans or employee matters into Muse?

No. The course keeps board materials, M&A, fundraising, material non-public information and personnel data out of Muse, at least until Meta's Confidential VM ships and your counsel approves. Board and investor drafts are built only from approved figures you choose to paste in.

Will Muse send emails or book things for me?

No. In this course Muse prepares and drafts, and you approve, send and decide. Payments, the wallet, corporate cards and booking on the company's behalf are left out.

Does the course cover voice mode, phone calls or AI glasses?

No. As of 2026-10-28, Meta had announced these but not confirmed them as available, so the course doesn't teach them. It also leaves out custom connectors, Mac Full Disk Access on machines that hold company files, and other agent products.

How long does it take?

About nine hours across 26 self-paced lessons.

Set up Muse safely and run your standing leadership work

$97

One payment · lifetime access

  • 26 self-paced lessons in 9 modules, about 9 hours
  • Safe-start settings, an IT approval request and a never-connect list for your role
  • Copy-paste prompts for five workflows: daily brief, decision prep, goals, board updates, meetings
  • A weekly review routine for the Activity log, Upcoming, Memory and connectors
  • An AI tutor you can type or talk to, plus quizzes and flashcards for each lesson
  • Progress tracking and a certificate of completion

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