ZERO-8Coaching · Workshops · Speaking · Builds
AI that earns its place in your week.
Most owners have tried it, got something that sounded like a brochure, and quietly went back to doing it themselves. That is a reasonable conclusion from a bad first hour. I work with owner-operators to put AI on the ordinary work that actually eats the week — the follow-ups, the drafts, the admin nobody sees — and to leave it running.
Four ways
Pick the one that matches where you are
One to one
Coaching
We work on your actual week, not a curriculum. Your inbox, your follow-ups, your quotes, the report you rebuild every Monday. You leave each session with something running, not notes about something to try.
Best for an owner who has tried AI, got something generic back, and assumed that was the ceiling.
Your team, one room
Workshops & training
A half or full day with your people, building live. Everyone leaves with prompts saved to their own account and one thing they use the next morning. No slideware, no homework nobody does.
Best for a team where one person has run ahead with AI and everybody else is quietly guessing.
Stages and associations
Speaking
Sessions built for rooms that are curious and skeptical in equal measure. Everything is built live, in front of the audience — including the part where the machine gets something wrong and we catch it together.
Best for an association or conference whose members keep asking what to do about AI.
Built for you
Custom builds
Sometimes the answer is not a prompt, it is software. Intake that routes itself, a calculator that captures the lead, an assistant that knows your business. I build it, you own it, it runs without me.
Best when the same manual process has survived three attempts to fix it with a tool you bought.
Who you would be working with
Eleven years in the Army, five as an aerospace engineer, now building AI systems for small businesses.
I am not a futurist and I am not going to tell you the world changed last Tuesday. I build the tools I teach, for real businesses — bookkeeping, landscaping, gyms — which means I know which parts of this actually hold up on a busy week and which parts only work in a demo. I will tell you both.
How I work
Three things I will not move on
It drafts. You are the professional.
Nothing goes to a client unread. The work still carries your name, so it still needs your judgment.
Boring problems first.
The follow-up that did not happen is worth more than any clever demo. We start where the money actually leaks.
You keep it.
Prompts, tools and accounts are yours, in your own logins. Nothing built here is hostage to me staying involved.
Start with a conversation.
Tell me what the week actually looks like and where it goes wrong. If I am not the right answer I will say so, and usually point you at what is.