AINate
Consulting · Private 1:1 · For you or your business

Stop starting from zero.

Three private sessions, built on your real work. You leave with an AI system that gets faster every time you use it — not a stack of notes.

Apply for the Intensive How it works

  • 3 × 2 hrsThree private working sessions
  • Your workBuilt on what is actually due, not exercises
  • In person or liveSF Bay Area in person, anywhere else over video
  • Up to 2 peopleCo-founders and partners at no extra cost
Sound familiar?

You already use AI every day. It just isn't compounding.

It usually takes one of three shapes.

  • Professionals & managers

    The productivity optimizer

    Now
    Drowning in tasks. Too many AI tools, no time to learn them. AI adds work instead of doing it.
    After
    A custom workflow that runs your reporting, meeting prep and decision support, and gives you back ten-plus hours a week.

  • Creators, media & marketing

    The content professional

    Now
    One piece eats twelve hours. You open with a big question, get vague answers back, and never reach a usable structure.
    After
    A research-to-draft pipeline that cuts production time in half and holds your voice.

  • Founders, investors & consultants

    The multi-project operator

    Now
    Several non-routine projects running for weeks, each crammed into one endless chat thread just to keep the context alive.
    After
    Every project in its own persistent workspace that keeps taking feedback and producing until it ships.
What we build

A system, not a chat window.

With a system, every job you finish makes the next one faster. With a chat, you start from zero every time. Four components, all of which you keep.

  • 01

    Context Base

    A living profile of who you are: your voice, your active projects, the frameworks you have already built. You stop re-explaining yourself at the start of every task.

    Fixes starting from zero every time

  • 02

    Asset Library

    Reusable templates and SOPs — landscape scans, topic-to-draft pipelines, decision matrices, outreach templates. Every session adds to it.

    Fixes generic answers with no structure

  • 03

    Tool Routing Map

    What each tool is genuinely best at, which task goes where, and how to hand work between them — research to draft to polish — instead of guessing.

    Fixes owning five tools, combining none

  • 04

    Project Workbench

    Every multi-week project gets its own persistent workspace with its own context, so you keep feeding it and iterating until delivery.

    Fixes one project, one endless thread

One tool, not five.

The whole system runs inside the Claude desktop app: a plain chat interface for daily work, and Cowork, the agent mode in the same app, as the engine that does multi-step work on your machine and runs tasks on a schedule. Nothing to learn but one app. Other tools stay as single-shot utilities you call when you need them.

The three sessions

Single skill. Production line. Full system.

You bring one piece of real, due work to every session. We build with it.

  1. Session01

    From chatting to structured research

    Build frameworks in reverse: the AI lays out the skeleton first, you review it, then we go block by block and fill it in. We take one real domain from zero to a framework map, live.

    You leave withA landscape-scan prompt template, plus the first version of your Context Base.

  2. Session02

    From a 12-hour draft to a half-day draft

    Break your production process into stages and mark exactly where AI plugs into each one. Outline-first is how we kill vague output. We push one real piece to a working draft in the session.

    You leave withAn end-to-end pipeline SOP, and your Tool Routing Map in first use.

  3. Session03

    From one chat thread to a project workbench

    Take a project you have in flight right now and stand it up as a live workflow that keeps taking your feedback and keeps producing — including tasks that run on a schedule without you.

    You leave withA running project workbench and your full tool-orchestration map.

How it works

You tell me what you need. I build the engagement around it.

  1. 1 · IntakeYou send me two or three situations you most want solved — where AI should be working for you, and where you are losing time.
  2. 2 · DesignI design your three sessions around those scenarios and prepare the materials before we meet. No generic curriculum.
  3. 3 · BuildThree two-hour sessions, in person or over video, on your real work — plus a live walkthrough of my own running systems each time.
  4. 4 · Follow-upA week of async Q&A after each session while you put it to use. Pace adjusts to how fast you are actually moving.
Investment

Not a course. Private work with me, on your projects.

Application only · limited spots

$12,000Three sessions, two hours each. Booked as a package, paid before the first session.

Nothing is due while your application is reviewed. Additional sessions afterward at $4,000 each.

Apply for the Intensive
  • Custom-built content and materials from your intake questionnaire
  • In person in the SF Bay Area, or live over video
  • Live walkthrough of my own running systems, every session
  • One week of async Q&A after each session
  • Pace adjusts to your progress, not a fixed syllabus
  • Up to two people at no extra cost
  • Four components you keep: Context Base, Asset Library, Tool Routing Map, Project Workbench
Is this right for you?

Honest fit, both ways.

This is for you if

  • You already use AI most days and can feel it plateauing
  • You have real, deadline-bearing work we can build the system out of
  • You want expert guidance over trial and error
  • You want something built around your work, not generic course content

This is not for you if

  • You want someone to do the work for you — this is mentoring, not done-for-you
  • You want AI theory without applying it
  • You cannot make time to implement between sessions
  • You prefer self-paced courses over live, hands-on work
Questions

Before you apply.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. The entire system runs inside one desktop app with a chat interface — no terminal, no code. Most Intensive clients are content, media and business professionals. If setup is the part that scares you, we do it together, live, in the session.

Can two of us share it?

Yes. Co-founders and working partners often book together, up to two people at no extra cost. Each person fills out their own intake questionnaire, and I run both threads through the same sessions using each person's real work.

Why is it sold as a package, not single sessions?

Because the sessions build on each other: session one produces the frameworks session two turns into a pipeline, which session three wires into a running project. A single session gets you a good afternoon, not a system. If you want to keep going afterward, additional sessions are $4,000 each.

Why application only?

Every session is built from scratch around your answers, and I can only prepare a handful at a time. The application is also how I tell you honestly whether this will help — if what you need is a course or a piece of software, I would rather say so up front.

What do I need to have ready?

Your laptop, a Claude subscription, and a real piece of work that is actually due for each session. Not a practice exercise. We build the system out of your live workload, which is why you leave with something already running.

How far apart are the sessions?

Usually a week or two. You get a week of async Q&A after each one, and you need real working days in between to put it to use. If you are moving faster or slower than expected, we adjust the pace, not the plan.

How does payment work?

The $12,000 covers all three sessions and is paid in full before the first one. I send an invoice once we have both confirmed it is a fit — nothing is due while your application is being reviewed.

What if this isn't the right level for me?

Then don't book it. If you are earlier in the journey, my live cohort course on Maven covers the fundamentals in a group setting, and it is the honest recommendation for most people. The Intensive is for people already using AI daily who have hit the ceiling of what one-off conversations can do.

Something running at the end of it.

Every week you keep re-explaining yourself to a chat window is a week your system could have been getting faster. Three sessions, your real work, a system you keep.

Apply for the Intensive