I build the human and AI operating systems purpose-driven organizations run on, and I teach leaders and teams to build this capacity for themselves. I got here through two decades inside organizations, most recently as an embedded fractional COO.
For organizations, I start by understanding where a team is with AI and the systems it runs on, then tailor a program to its goals. For individuals, I teach two TEMPO cohorts. TEMPO Work is for people newer to AI: you build an AI assistant that knows your work. TEMPO Build is for people with some experience who want to go much deeper: you build a team of AI agents that you lead. I also work with people one to one. No technical background needed.
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Most people already use AI as a thought partner. They open a chat, talk through a problem, and get something useful back. But the work still gets done the way it always was. Inside teams I see the same thing on a bigger scale: nearly everyone experimenting on their own, one or two people racing ahead, and no shared agreement on what AI is for or what it's allowed to touch.
At the start of this year I used AI the way most people do, as a chat partner. Now I lead a small team of AI agents, the same way I've led people for twenty years: I give them context and a clear standard, check their work, and make the decisions. It's raised the quality, the range, and the amount of what I can produce, well beyond what I could reach on my own.
The research now shows both directions: people who accept whatever AI hands them get worse at thinking. People who direct it get better. Every system I build keeps the decisions with you. That is what I help people and organizations do.
Your organization
I work with leadership teams at purpose-driven organizations, building the systems their team runs on and teaching everyone to use AI well. It can start with the leader or a workshop for the whole team, then grow into a team program, a build for one process, or six months working inside your team.
You
I teach non-technical professionals to build their own AI operating systems, in a six-week cohort or one to one. You start from a system I've spent months building and refining, then make it yours.
In September I started Foundations with two teams, each working out where AI helps their work and where its limits are. One of them, a global health organization, finished both sessions with a written agreement on how they'll use AI, drawn from the team's own words.
Read how it went →As Tandem's fractional COO, I built a system for the team's campaigns: AI drafts the creative, an agent grades every piece, and the team approves at every gate.
Read the case study →I moved a fast-scaling nonprofit's contractor management, procurement, invoicing, and grants out of email and spreadsheets into one system that its staff and contractors work in.
Read the case study →The operating system I built to run my own practice and the team of AI agents working from it. Every client, project, and priority in one place, wired to the tools I work in and updated on its own. See the case studies →
Four case studies: an operations portal, a marketing automation system, my own AI operating system, and a whole team writing its own rules for using AI. I built the three systems without an engineering team.
A spider in a jar turned into bedtime stories starring my son, a spider house on our table and a day in the forest looking under rocks. It feels like our imagination is now the main limit.
An authority ladder, the difference between a guardrail and a boundary, and the fake email my agent plants in my inbox every week to see if my assistant falls for it.
People worry AI erodes critical thinking. Two days after I asked Claude one of my favorite questions, a colleague and I had a dashboard that answered every budget question we'd been stuck on.
TEMPO Work is a self-paced course in Claude and Cowork, opening in December. TEMPO Build is six live weeks in Claude Code, starting in January 2027. Or work with me one-to-one, any time.
Self-paced from December · Live from January 2027
See the three ways to learnEverything on this page comes down to one idea: adopt AI deliberately, so it strengthens your thinking, in service of work that matters. That's what I mean by AI on purpose.
