// FREE · SLIDES + AI STARTER CHECKLIST
Get the slides, and the checklist that goes with them.
If you came from a talk or the free session, this is the follow-up I promised. Either way, drop your email below and I’ll send the slides plus a one-page checklist for handing your first real task to an AI assistant. No long PDF you’ll never open. Just the stuff you can use this week.
Two things, both usable today.
- The slides. Everything I walked through, so you can go back to any part at your own pace.
- The AI Starter Checklist. The exact steps I use to hand a task to an assistant: pick the right first task, write it down like you’re training someone, choose one tool, and fix the instructions instead of the output.
- The occasional email. Only when I build or teach something worth your time. Plain English. Unsubscribe whenever.
Before you hand anything over.
“Is my data safe?”
Machines have read your email for twenty years; that's how the spam filter works. A business-grade AI account extends the same kind of written promise to one more vendor: your content isn't used for training, and retention is limited. The setup I teach is the careful version: business tier, “improve the model” turned off, and the assistant drafts while you decide what goes out. Two honest limits: a contract is not a force field, and regulated content like health records or legal privilege needs proper agreements or stays out entirely.
“Won't it sound like AI wrote it?”
It will if you skip the setup. The first thing we build is a knowledge base that carries your voice, including the words the assistant is never allowed to use, and you review everything before it ships. Fast and sloppy is easy. Fast and good takes a process. That process is what I teach.
“Does this replace me?”
The assistant takes the repetitive assembly. You keep the judgment, the taste, the relationships, and the decisions. It replaces the boring part, not you.
“Am I locked into one tool?”
No. Everything we build lives in plain documents and folders. The knowledge base is yours to keep, and if a better tool shows up next year, it moves with you. I teach in Claude Desktop because it's what I run my own studio on, not because you're stuck with it.
Rather do it live?
The workshop is the hands-on version: you leave with an assistant set up for your business, not just notes about one.