JOHN RICE / MINNESOTA AI CONSULTING & TEAM TRAINING
I help Minnesota agency owners and service businesses get clear on AI, train their teams, and put a useful first project to work. Start with the questions you have today and the work your business already does.
Free 30-minute conversation. No technical brief or tool choice required.
01 / For Minnesota business owners & teams
You’re running a business, not researching every new AI tool. Whether you’re starting from scratch or trying to make scattered use more useful, we can choose a manageable next step.
Understand where AI fits in your business, review the tools you already have, and choose a practical first step.
Start with an AI roadmapTurn individual experiments into useful habits, with hands-on training, clear instructions, and a way to check the work.
Get the team up to speedChoose a recurring task, build a contained first workflow, and measure whether it helps before expanding.
Scope your first AI projectCONSULTING IN PRACTICE / PROJECT STUDY
Designed & prototypedAn internal AI assistant for a marketing agency: meeting commitments, connected performance data, and status drafts a person can review.
Explore the projectTHE WORKFLOW
What was agreed, who owns it, and what is still missing.
Give the reviewer a way back to the original information.
A useful draft for a person to check and share.
02 / Work with me
A review of your current work and tools, prioritized opportunities, and a clear first-project brief.
Plan your AI next step GET THE TEAM UP TO SPEEDLearn with your own tasks. Leave with reusable instructions, review habits, and an experiment to try.
Explore team training PUT THE PLAN TO WORKA contained pilot, a person responsible for the result, and checks for quality, effort, and cost.
Explore implementationNeed help after the first project? Scoped adoption support keeps the team learning and the work improving. We agree on deliverables, timing, and fees before work begins.
Explore ongoing support03 / The point of view behind my work
Choose one recurring task and define the result before choosing the model or the tools.
Make the sources, missing information, and human decisions part of the workflow.
Count review and corrections alongside generation. A useful system earns its place in the work.
04 / Minnesota AI field notes
Compare deliverables, dependencies, recurring costs, and acceptance conditions before approving an AI engagement. Understand what a proposal includes and what remains your responsibility.
Ask for evidence that matches the work, clear access and review boundaries, and a handoff your team can use. A checklist for comparing any provider.
Test the complete task before buying more software. Compare existing tools, process changes, and a contained build using review effort and operating requirements.
05 / The work behind the advice
Get a clearer next step for a LinkedIn draft.
HOW IT HELPSScores the hook, body and ending of a draft, with focused coaching and optional edits built around Tony Albrecht's method.
ClawPortGive your agent team a place to work.
HOW IT HELPSOpen-source dashboard for agent hierarchy, chat, tasks, scheduled jobs, costs, activity and memory, built on OpenClaw.
PeekabooUnderstand how your brand appears in AI search.
HOW IT HELPSTracks brand mentions, competitors, sentiment and cited sources across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Subreddit SignalsFind the customer conversations worth listening to.
HOW IT HELPSMonitors selected communities, ranks posts by fit and buyer intent, and helps founders prepare useful replies.
Find your starting point, build the team’s confidence, and put one useful project into practice. Get help at the stage your business is in.
Explore AI help in Minnesota FOR SOLO FOUNDERSFind a problem worth solving, shape the first release, and build with agents. Use the tools or bring me into the project.
Explore the founder path06 / Take a useful first step
PUBLIC TEACHING / NO-CODE COFFEEBuilding with a team of AI developer agents.
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JOHN RICE / ALWAYS BUILDING07 / MN → LA → MN
I’ve spent 15 years in software across startups, agencies, and enterprise. Today I build products, help teams apply AI, and share the decisions behind the work. My path took me from Minnesota to Santa Monica College in Los Angeles and back. The curiosity stayed with me.
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