Talks and demos on making AI useful in a business.

I speak and teach on one subject: making AI useful in a real business. Audiences are owners, executives and their teams, and the people who build for them. I keep it practical and I show the work.

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Jonathan Malkin presenting beside a laptop, with his name on the screen behind him.

What I talk about

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.

Talks

Recent and upcoming. The slides go up here after each talk, free to read, no email required.

  • Two Agents, One Brain

    Clawstin, October meetup
    Pershing Hall, Austin
    Thursday, October 8, 2026

    A fifteen-minute talk with a live demo on two AI agents sharing one working structure. The slides and the take-home tool go up here after the talk.

  • Give Claude a map, not a dump

    Austin Claude Code Meetup
    Capital Factory, Austin
    August 10, 2026

    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.

Invite me to speak

The date, the audience and the slot you have. I will suggest the format that fits.

I reply by email, usually within two business days.