I build AI for work, for play, and a little on the side.
I lead AI and engineering at a startup, building production AI that ships to real users. The rest of my time goes to hands-on workshops with senior teams at companies that want to actually build, not just talk about it. Applied AI is the program I run that pulls both threads together.
Why someone shipping AI is teaching it.
I came up through software engineering and ended up running AI and engineering at a startup, where I'm responsible for the systems that actually ship to customers. Most of what I teach in workshops comes directly from problems I've had to solve in production. What works, what doesn't, what looks great in a demo and breaks in real use.
The workshop work started when companies began asking how to get their teams up to speed. I've worked with senior leadership at companies like Capital One, Disney, Cisco, and Estée Lauder Companies, plus newer ventures through Y Combinator, Philo, and Epic. The pattern has been consistent. Teams that already have smart people but need someone who can bridge what they're hearing about AI and what's actually useful for their work.
Most AI training right now is taught by people who don't build AI. That's the gap I'm trying to close. If your team is going to spend time learning something this consequential, it should come from someone who's actually in the arena with you.
How I think about this work.
I don't sell courses or cohorts that haven't been validated against real demand. Most pre-built AI training is generic by design, built once and sold many times, with the depth flattened out. I'd rather build workshops around real teams and real problems, even if that means scaling slower.
I'm also honest about what doesn't work. AI is genuinely useful for a lot of things and genuinely useless for others. If I run a workshop with your team and the AI tooling isn't ready for the problem you're trying to solve, I'd rather tell you than sell you on it anyway.
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