You don’t know where to start.
You want to understand what is useful for your business and make a sensible first decision.
MINNESOTA AI CONSULTING / FOR AGENCY & SERVICE BUSINESS OWNERS
Practical AI help
for Minnesota businesses.
I help owners and operators in the Twin Cities and across Minnesota get their teams up to speed with AI. Whether you have yet to start or everyone is trying different tools, we can find a practical place to begin.
Free 30-minute remote consultation. Bring your questions; you don’t need a tool picked out or confidential documents.IS THIS THE RIGHT FIT?
Meet your business where it is.
This is for Minnesota owners and operators who want a clear way forward for their team. We start with your work, existing tools, and experience with AI, then choose the help that fits.
AI use is scattered.
People are experimenting on their own. You need shared practices, examples, and a way to check the work.
You want the team to use it well.
You need practical training and support to turn a promising idea into something people can use.
AI Readiness & Roadmap
Know where to start.
For Minnesota agency and service business owners who want to understand where AI fits and what to do first.
Book a free AI consultationWhat the readiness assessment coversPAID ENGAGEMENT / AGREED DELIVERABLES
- An inventory of current tasks, tools, team use, source owners, and access requirements
- An opportunity comparison that weighs task frequency, source quality, review effort, and implementation needs
- A first-step roadmap with an agreed task, reviewer, prerequisites, and criteria for evaluating the complete job
Practical Team Training
Give the team a useful way to begin.
For teams that need hands-on help with everyday AI use, including people who are starting from scratch.
Book a free AI consultationExplore AI training for your teamPAID ENGAGEMENT / AGREED DELIVERABLES
- Training shaped around the team’s work, experience, and questions
- Worked examples, reusable instructions, and a guide to reviewing answers
- An action plan for practice, shared use, and the first workflow to try
First Useful Workflow
Put the first idea into practice.
For businesses ready to apply AI to one task, such as preparing reports, finding internal answers, or drafting content for review.
Book a free AI consultationExplore agency workflow implementationPAID ENGAGEMENT / AGREED DELIVERABLES
- A scoped workflow using agreed tools, sources, and access boundaries
- A working version with representative examples and a human review step
- Team instructions, evaluation criteria, and a documented handoff
AI Adoption Support
Help useful habits take hold.
For owners who want continued help supporting the team, reviewing what works, and deciding what to improve next.
Book a free AI consultationPAID ENGAGEMENT / AGREED DELIVERABLES
- An agreed support scope, review cadence, and list of priorities
- Updates to instructions and workflows based on team questions and feedback
- A review of use, output quality, and effort, with documented next decisions
Building a product around your expertise?
I also help independent founders scope a product, make technical decisions, and build with agents. Your Post Coach, co-built with Tony Albrecht around his coaching method, is one example.
SEE THE WORK BEHIND THE APPROACH
Products, prototypes, and the decisions behind them.
Live product / co-built
Your Post Coach
Turning Tony Albrecht’s coaching method into focused feedback on a LinkedIn draft.
Read the build note Designed & prototypedAgency operations assistant
Meeting commitments, connected performance data, and status drafts a person can review.
Explore the project Open sourceClawPort
A dashboard for seeing an agent team’s tasks, activity, costs, and shared context.
Explore the toolCONSULTING IN PRACTICE / PROJECT STUDY
Designed & prototypedFrom scattered information
to a useful next step.
An internal AI assistant for a marketing agency: meeting commitments, connected performance data, and status drafts a person can review.
Explore the projectTHE WORKFLOW
Meetings Documents Analytics
- 01
Find the commitment.
What was agreed, who owns it, and what is still missing.
- 02
Keep the source close.
Give the reviewer a way back to the original information.
- 03
Prepare the next step.
A useful draft for a person to check and share.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
A practical plan.
A team that knows the next step.
01
Understand where you are.
Look at the work your team does, the tools you use, and what people know about AI today. Identify the questions and opportunities that matter.
02
Choose a useful first step.
Agree on a roadmap, training, or one workflow to implement. Define the deliverables, review criteria, timing, and fees before work begins.
03
Support use and improvement.
Give the team instructions and worked examples. Review what happens in practice, and agree on further support or improvements based on what you learn.
WORK THROUGH IT FIRST
Find a practical place to begin.
Use the free readiness checklist to review where your team is today. When you are ready to try a first workflow, the scorecard helps you decide what to evaluate.
BEFORE YOU HIRE AI HELP
Know what to ask.
Know what to scope.
COST & SCOPE
What goes into an AI project quote?
Understand the work, integrations, review, and ongoing costs a proposal needs to cover.
Read the buyer guide CHOOSING HELPWhat should you ask before hiring?
Check the evidence, responsibilities, access, and handoff before choosing an AI consultant.
Read the buyer guide BUILD OR USE WHAT YOU HAVEDo you need a custom workflow?
Compare a clearer process, existing software, and a custom build around one representative task.
Read the buyer guideOPTIONAL / PREPARE FOR THE CONVERSATION
Start with your questions.
Find a useful next step.
A few sentences are enough. Prepare a brief about where your team is with AI and what you would like help with, or go straight to a free 30-minute consultation.
This tool works in your browser. Your answers are not submitted to John or saved by this tool. Include a general description of the work; no names or private documents are needed.
Book a free AI consultationFocus and team type are optional. Add both short answers to copy or download a brief.
Describe your current questions, AI use, or a task that needs help. Up to 1,200 characters.
Describe what you would like the team to understand or be able to do. Up to 1,200 characters.
BEFORE WE TALK
A few useful answers.
Yes. You can start with your business, the work your team does, and the questions you have. You do not need to choose a tool or arrive with a project brief. A readiness review helps identify useful opportunities, what the team needs to learn, and a practical first step.
We discuss your business questions, how the team uses AI today, and one candidate task or project where it might help. We can talk through a possible next step and whether a roadmap, training, a first workflow, or adoption support would fit. Detailed planning and implementation are scoped as separate paid engagements.
Bring your questions and a general description of your business and the work your team does. You do not need a tool picked out, confidential documents, or access to your systems. The optional brief below can help you organize your thoughts before booking.
Yes. We look at the tasks people are using it for, the tools involved, and how they check the results. From there we can agree on shared instructions, review practices, and useful examples, then choose a workflow the team can use consistently.
We start by reviewing your existing tools, available integrations, and access requirements. The agency prototype connected Google Drive, Google Analytics, and Search Console. Your scope depends on what your systems support and what your team authorizes.
Yes. We shape the training around the team’s starting point and the work they do. Sessions can cover asking useful questions, providing context, reviewing answers, and building repeatable instructions. Worked examples and a practice plan give people something to use afterward.
Examples include preparing a status-report draft, finding answers in approved documents, or organizing meeting decisions for review. We choose one task, agree on the sources and tools, and define what a useful result would look like before building.
Yes. Ongoing support has an agreed scope and review cadence. It can include answering team questions, improving instructions, reviewing the first workflow, and deciding what to tackle next. Priorities and support boundaries are defined before the work begins.
Yes. I also help founders make product decisions, scope prototypes, and build with agents. Bring the product idea or the part of the build that is slowing you down. Your Post Coach, co-built with Tony Albrecht around his coaching method, is one example of turning specialist expertise into a product.
Minnesota is my focus, including agencies and service businesses in the Twin Cities and across the state. Consultations happen remotely through the calendar link, and I also work remotely with businesses outside Minnesota.
We discuss which engagement fits your needs. Any paid work has agreed deliverables, timing, fees, and review steps before it begins. Booking the free consultation does not commit you to a paid engagement.
That depends on the work and the result you need. Training scope depends on the audience, starting experience, representative exercises and follow-up. Implementation scope depends on sources, access, integrations, testing, review and handoff. Any ongoing support and vendor charges should be identified separately. The 30-minute consultation is free; deliverables, timing and fees are agreed before paid work begins.
A scoped readiness engagement reviews tasks, current tools, how the team uses AI, and the condition and ownership of relevant information. We compare opportunities by practical fit, review burden and requirements, then prepare a first-step roadmap with a task, an owner, prerequisites and evaluation criteria. Implementation is separately scoped; the free introductory conversation is not a complete assessment.
We agree on the information a tool can use, the actions it can take, and the places a person reviews the result. Training includes checking answers against the source and deciding what is ready to use. Client messages and business commitments need an explicit review step. Your team keeps ownership of the decisions.
No. The brief is prepared in your browser. You can copy it or download a text file, then choose what to paste into your booking note. Booking happens separately through the calendar link.
Absolutely. The apps have their own product plans, and the templates, scripts, and public playbooks here are available to explore independently. Consulting is there when you want help applying the ideas to your work.