About me
AI coach & educator
Hello, I'm
I teach people to use AI in the work they know best.
My work has always been helping people bring their gifts and ideas into the world. Since 2016 I have watched AI grow into a tool that lets one person take an idea much further than before. Now I help people use it for the ideas that matter to them, at work and in the rest of their lives.
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Background
The tools have changed many times. The work has not: help a capable person express what they already have in them, and get out of the way once they can. That is what I bring to your work with AI.
As a wilderness instructor, then a life coach, then a test prep coach, I did one job in three settings: see what someone already had in them, clear what was in the way, and get them moving under their own power. Someone learning to use AI needs exactly that.
One-on-one teaching can only reach so many people, so I built a teaching company and an online learning platform. The hard part was keeping what made one-on-one teaching work: each student moving forward in their own direction. I hold your AI setup to that same standard.
I had studied Go for years. Watching Lee Sedol lose to AlphaGo in March 2016 changed what I believed was possible, and I have been learning and using AI ever since.
When ChatGPT brought AI into everyday life in late 2022, I already had six years of learning to build on.
Since 2023 I have coached people across dozens of fields, one-on-one, in the AI Mastermind, and through Meli AI Academy. Each person arrives with expertise and ideas of their own. My job is to help them express those ideas and take them further with AI. It is the job I have always done.
How I work
You know your work, and your AI setup should build on what you know.
We choose tools only after we understand what matters to you, where your information lives, and where the work currently breaks down. The setup should fit the way you already think and work.
Errors, misses, and failures show you what the setup still needs.
When AI gets something wrong, it has shown you a requirement you had not stated yet. We turn the mistake into that requirement, so the setup gets stronger with every miss. The skill you leave with is the habit of seeing mistakes this way.
Your needs will change, and your tools should change with them.
I teach as we build, and you make the adjustments yourself while we work. The goal is for you to start the next one on your own.
Privacy, sources, and responsibility are clear from the start.
You know which information the assistant can use, what it may change, and which consequential actions wait for you.
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Courses and member guides you work through at your own pace, with new material added as it ships.
See membershipLive 90-minute Zoom sessions each month, with reviewed replays. Academy membership is included.
Explore AI MastermindPractical guides for connecting your tools, setting up memory, and adapting reusable prompts to your work.
Browse guidesA daily AI term with plain definitions, common confusions, and quick practice when you want to check your understanding.
Open AI TermsWe find the first task where AI clearly helps your work, build it until it is reliable, and go from there.
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The question behind all of it, from wilderness courses to SAT tutoring to AI coaching, has been the same: how do you help someone become more capable without making them less themselves? My goal is for you to leave with a useful routine you understand and enough practice to adjust it as your needs change.
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