The AcademyIntermediate
Design Your Data Model
What you'll build
A complete object-and-association map for your own business — designed interactively in the data-model simulator, then deployed as real configured HubSpot objects — plus a schema-explainer agent on valuefirstagent.com that reads your configured objects and produces plain-language documentation of what each object is for (documented HDE).
The live cadence
How the live thing runs for this path.
Office Hours as an architecture clinic ('bring your model') — design in the simulator between sessions, get critiqued live before you deploy.
The build, step by step
What you'll do, in order.
- Study four worked data modelsStudy how Value-First, SaaS-growth, ecommerce, and traffic-management models are shaped before designing your own. (Reuses /learn/data-models.)
- Design yours in the simulatorLay out your own objects and associations with no live-portal risk; iterate until the model reflects how your business creates value. (Reuses /learn/simulator + the 26 builders.)
- Critique it at the architecture clinicBring your simulated model to Office Hours; pressure-test it against the Value Creation Protocol before anything touches production.
- Deploy the model for realConfigure your designed objects and associations in HubSpot. The simulator output becomes a live data model — the build.
- Build your schema-explainer agentOn valuefirstagent.com, build an agent that reads your deployed objects and documents what each is for. Tribal knowledge becomes documented, shareable HDE.
- Ship the docs back to your teamHand the generated documentation to someone who wasn't in the room. If they understand your model without you, it's done.
Where the build becomes real
You build it on valuefirstagent.com.
build a schema-explainer agent that reads your deployed objects and writes plain-language docs for each.
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Join the next live session for this path.
Tell us where to reach you and what you want to build. We will send you the next live session details.
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You're building. Here's where it goes next.
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