The notebook
written between jobs
Notes from the shop floor.
Straight answers to the questions organizations ask about putting AI to work. Training, automation, agents, and getting found by AI search.
Fresh pins
newest on top
The latest from the bench.
Filed July 21, 2026
What Does an AI Consultant Actually Do?
An AI consultant does the AI work your organization cannot yet do for itself, then hands it back. What the job covers, and when to bring one in.
AI Strategy
Filed July 14, 2026
What Is a Corporate AI Bootcamp?
A corporate AI bootcamp is hands-on training where each team builds one real AI system end to end in its own accounts, with 30 days of support after.
AI Training
Filed July 7, 2026
How to Choose an AI Consultant in Chicago
Choose an AI consultant on evidence: shipped work you can inspect, named builders, written support terms, and pricing stated on the first call.
AI Strategy
Filed June 30, 2026
What Is Answer Engine Optimization?
AEO is the work of making your website the source AI assistants cite when they answer. How it differs from SEO and what actually moves it.
AEO & AI Search
Filed June 23, 2026
How to Get Your Company Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity
Answer real buyer questions directly, structure pages so machines can lift them, keep facts consistent, publish llms.txt, and earn off-site mentions.
AEO & AI Search
Filed June 16, 2026
Role-Based AI Training vs Generic AI Training
Generic AI training hands everyone the hardest step: mapping the tool to their job. Role-based tracks do that mapping in the room, per team.
AI Training
Filed June 9, 2026
Workflow Automation Examples That Pay for Themselves
Hours hide in intake and routing, status reporting, re-keyed data, document drafting, and follow-up chasing. How to spot each and which pays back first.
Workflow Automation
Filed June 2, 2026
Fractional Chief AI Officer vs a Full-Time Hire
Most organizations should start with a fractional Chief AI Officer and hire full-time once AI work is continuous. Here is how to tell which you need.
AI Strategy
Filed May 26, 2026
Should You Book a Keynote, a Workshop, or a Bootcamp?
Book a keynote to align a room, a workshop to build skill, a bootcamp to ship a system your team owns, plus what each format cannot do.
AI Training
Filed May 19, 2026
How to Adopt AI Without Replacing Anyone
A playbook for AI wins with zero people replaced: aim automation at tasks, let the team pick targets, fence every agent, and count the ROI in hours freed.
AI StrategyWorkflow Automation
The card catalog
the whole drawer
Every card in the drawer.
- July 21, 2026
- What Does an AI Consultant Actually Do?
- July 14, 2026
- What Is a Corporate AI Bootcamp?
- July 7, 2026
- How to Choose an AI Consultant in Chicago
- June 30, 2026
- What Is Answer Engine Optimization?
- June 16, 2026
- Role-Based AI Training vs Generic AI Training
- June 2, 2026
- Fractional Chief AI Officer vs a Full-Time Hire
- May 19, 2026
- How to Adopt AI Without Replacing Anyone
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