A practical AI session for the people you bring together.
You run a chamber, an association, a peer group, a meetup, a conference or a portfolio of companies, and your people are asking about AI. I bring a hands-on workshop or a talk where they see it work on real business problems.
What your group gets
A session set to where the room actually is.
From people opening an AI tool for the first time to people who use one every day. I ask about the group beforehand and set the session to match.
Hands-on time on their own work.
In the hands-on workshops each person works on their own tasks, on their own laptop, with whichever AI tool they have.
One practical result per person.
A working tool or workflow, a skill applied to their own work, or a clear decision about where to start.
Workshops: three kinds of rooms
I suggest one once I know who is coming. In person in Austin, and online sessions are available too. Group size, what you need to provide and who pays are in the common questions.
Hands-on build workshops
Laptops open. Each person brings one real task from their own week, builds on it with help beside them, and leaves with something that works. Ninety minutes.
Put Your Business Knowledge to Work. Build One Useful AI Workflow. Build Your Personal AI Assistant. Hand Off Your First Task to an AI Agent.
Leadership sessions
No laptops needed. Owners and the people who run their businesses work through where AI fits, what it may and may not do, and what to start first. They leave with decisions written down. Ninety minutes.
See Where AI Could Help Your Business. Set Your Team’s AI Direction.
For IT and technical teams
For the people who run systems and build things inside the business. Technical and hands-on, on real files and real tools. Ninety minutes, or a half day for a team that wants to leave with it running.
Give Your AI Agents a Map.
Talks: what I talk about
For a larger room or a conference slot. Five principles I come back to in every room; a talk takes one or two of them and shows the work.
You are not behind.
Every week brings a new way to feel behind: a new model, a new agent, a new tool. Most of it does not change what your business needs. Start where you are.
Keep it simple.
Add structure only when the work needs it. One assistant doing one job well beats a team of agents nobody can follow.
Well-organized files come first.
AI gives general answers when it has general information. Put what your business knows where people and AI can both find it.
Start with one real task.
Pick work that comes back every week and gets rebuilt from scratch each time. Get that one task working before talking about a strategy.
People stay in control.
AI drafts and prepares. A person reviews, decides and owns the result.
Recent talks
Two Agents, One Brain
A fifteen-minute talk with a live demo on two AI agents sharing one working structure.
Give Claude a map, not a dump
Fourteen slides to a room of Claude Code users: the folder map, the context card, and why the record is longer than the answer.
Slides
The decks
As they were shown. A workshop is where you build your own version, with help beside you.
Build Your Personal AI AssistantThe slides from the workshop: a daily brief, meeting preparation and keeping track of what comes next.Workshop deck
Give Claude a map, not a dumpFourteen slides from the Austin Claude Code Meetup talk on organizing what a business knows so people and AI can both use it.Talk deck
Questions for group hosts
How many people can attend?
Hands-on works best with about ten to thirty people. A larger room gets a talk with one exercise everyone does at their seat.
Who pays when a group hosts a workshop?
Hosts pay directly, bring a sponsor, or charge participants. I ask a few questions and propose terms in writing.
What do we need to provide?
A room with a screen and reliable wifi, a rough count of who is coming, and for hands-on sessions a laptop per person with an account for the AI tool they use.
Can you tailor it to our industry?
Yes, when I can use examples from the participants’ own tasks.
For ongoing work in your business, explore working through an AI problem together.
Tell me about your group
Who they are, roughly how many, and the dates you have in mind. If you first want to know who you would be putting in front of them, read more about me.
I reply by email, usually within two business days.