Have your record kept for you

For twenty years I sat on the other side of the desk. I built the systems that evaluate people at work, and I managed and reviewed hundreds of people.

An annual review works like an audit. It checks records that already exist. Most people arrive with none. The open protocol shows how to keep one: start your record on day one, enter things twice, close every month, and compare notes with your manager.

It takes about fifteen minutes a week. Keeping it up for a whole year is the hard part.

Everything in the method is free: the protocol, the workbook and every how-to page. If you will keep the record yourself, do that. You do not need the coach.

The coach is for people who know they will not.

In the first version:

1. It plans your year with you. It asks what you want the year to look like, turns that into three to five objectives, and gives each one a business reason.
2. It prepares each one-on-one. Before the meeting you get a list of three to five items in order. After it, you say what happened and get the follow-up email, ready to send.

Added during your first year, at no extra cost:

3. It keeps the record. You send it a line when something happens. It files the entry under an objective and tracks what you are owed.
4. It closes the month with you. It drafts the monthly note from your entries: three results, what is off track, open points and your objective.
5. It prepares your bigger reviews. Before a quarterly, half-year or year-end review, it compiles your record into talking points. After it, you get the email to send, with every point you did not reach.
6. It puts your dates in your calendar. The decision meeting, the day your manager needs your case and each monthly close go into the calendar you already use.

I am not promising dates for parts 3 to 6.

• It is not a person. It is software. Drafting uses an AI model, which you can switch off. No human coach reads your record.
• It is not for job hunting. It is for the job you have.
• It is not your employer's tool. Your employer never sees it.
• It is not a promise. It cannot promise a promotion or a raise. It makes sure your case exists, is known, and arrives on time.

1. You pay $49 once. That covers your first year, counted from the day the coach opens.
2. Nothing renews by itself. Before your year ends I will ask whether you want another.
3. I start building when the twenty-fifth person has pre-ordered. I will email you that day. The coach opens within eight weeks of it.
4. Until the coach opens, you can have your money back at any time, for any reason. Reply to the receipt.
5. If 25 people have not pre-ordered by 31 March 2027, every payment is refunded without anyone asking. The same happens if the coach has not opened eight weeks after the twenty-fifth pre-order.
6. If you came here through someone's link, they receive a share of your payment. Your price is the same.
7. The seller is Remy Bricaud, an individual. The payment is taken by Stripe. The price is in US dollars; Stripe may offer your own currency instead.
8. These terms go beyond the 14-day right to withdraw from an online purchase: your money comes back on request at any time until the coach opens.

Your record holds your plans for your career and your pay. So it stays with you.

• Where it is stored: on your own device. No account holds your record, and no copy sits on a server.
• Who else can see it: nobody. It is never shared with an employer, a partner or an advertiser.
• Drafting: this is the one thing that leaves your device, and you can switch it off.
  • When you ask for a draft, the entries needed for that one draft are sent to an AI service, which writes the text.
  • The service is not chosen yet. It will be one whose terms rule out training on what you send. Before the coach opens, this page will say how long that service keeps it.
  • My server passes the request along. It keeps no copy and no log of the content.
  • With drafting off, nothing leaves your device. The coach still builds your lists, your monthly note and your dates, and you write the wording yourself.
• One device: your record lives on the device where you started it. To move it, export the file and open it on the other device.
• Backups: if you lose the device or clear its storage, your record is gone unless you exported a copy. The coach asks you to export one at each monthly close.
• Leaving: export your whole record as a file, or delete it, at any time.
• What I do hold: your email address and your payment record. I need them to send your receipt, your access and, if it comes to that, your refund.

I am Remy Bricaud. The method on the protocol page is mine: I wrote it from twenty years of building the systems that evaluate people at work.

TalentShake began in 2022 as HR software built for employers. This is its second life, on the employee's side.

There are no testimonials, because there is no product yet. The protocol is the evidence. Read it before you pay.

When will it open? Within eight weeks of the twenty-fifth pre-order. If the twenty-fifth person joins on the last possible day, 31 March 2027, that is 26 May 2027 at the latest. If it is not open in time, you are refunded.

What if fewer than 25 people join? Then it is not built, and everyone is refunded on 31 March 2027. The protocol and the workbook stay free.

Why $49? It is a lower price for people who pay before the product exists. It ends on the day the coach opens.

Can I claim it as an expense? You get a receipt. Whether your employer's learning budget covers it is between you and them.

Why not use the free workbook with a general AI assistant? You can, and for some people that is enough. The coach adds a memory of your whole year, your dates and a fixed format for each note, without you setting any of it up.

Can I use it on my phone and my laptop? One device at a time in the first version. You move your record by exporting it.

Do you offer coaching calls? No. This is software, and the protocol is self-paced.

Pre-order for $49Live Stripe checkout. Do not pay to test it.

Use the free protocol instead