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Sometimes it’s faster to just be shown.

A focused 90-minute working session is $150. Bring the thing that is eating your time and we get one useful system working together.

One to oneNo assumed knowledgeOnline or in Santa Barbara

What actually happens

We start with the thing that’s annoying you. Not a curriculum — your actual situation. The pile of admin, the recurring email, the sense that everyone else has figured something out that you haven’t.

Then we get one thing working properly, end to end, with you driving. Not me demonstrating while you watch. You doing it, badly at first, until it stops feeling foreign.

Afterwards you get a short written summary in plain language, so you aren’t relying on remembering what happened. Follow-up questions by email are included and I don’t bill for them.

Who books these

Mostly people who are entirely capable in their own field and have simply not had a reason to become technical: makers, therapists, contractors, writers, retired people, small business owners, people whose adult children keep telling them to try it.

There is no assumed knowledge and nothing to be embarrassed about. I have explained the same thing four times in one hour and considered it a good hour.

What I won’t do

I won’t sell you a subscription you don’t need, set up something you can’t maintain alone, or pretend a tool solves a problem that is actually about process. If an hour with me isn’t what you need, I’ll say so — that has happened and it will happen again.

Creative studio

Build a small AI studio around your taste.

Image, art, and music generation become useful when the tools are connected to a clear visual or sonic language—not when you simply press Generate fifty times and hope.

Studio / 01

Visual generation and art direction

Choose the right image tools, develop a repeatable style, create concept art and campaign material, and move from rough idea to controlled variations without losing the original intent.

Studio / 02

Editing, remixing, and finishing

Rebuild weak generations, change environments or objects, restore older images, create consistent series, and integrate generated elements into a real Photoshop, Illustrator, or production workflow.

Studio / 03

Music and sound exploration

Set up tools for song ideas, arrangements, lyrics, ambient sound, voice experiments, and rapid sonic prototyping—then define where human performance and production take over.

The goal is not more output. It is better control.

We can build a one-off creative session, a repeatable personal workflow, or a local setup for work you would rather keep private.

Book a creative session
Common shapes

What people usually come with.

Shape / 01

“I don’t know where to start”

Complete beginner, slightly embarrassed about it, wants a calm first hour with no jargon. Extremely common. Nothing to apologise for.

Shape / 02

“I tried and it was rubbish”

Used it once, got a generic answer, wrote it off. Usually fixable in about twenty minutes once we look at what you actually asked for.

Shape / 03

“This one task eats my week”

A specific recurring job you resent. The best possible reason to book, and the one most likely to pay for itself.

Shape / 04

“I need it to stay private”

Confidential material, professional duty of confidence, or simple preference. There are real options here, including running it entirely on your own machine.

Shape / 05

“I make things and I’m worried”

Creative people wanting help without giving away the part that matters. I have the same concerns and we can talk about them properly.

Shape / 06

“Help my parent, patiently”

Booked by someone for a family member. Slow pace, plain words, written notes afterwards, no sighing. Happily.

Beyond a session

Your own AI shift worker.

For some people the answer is not learning to use another app. It is building a small agent that lives on their computer or private server and handles a defined job every day: preparing leads, sorting project material, checking selected sources, assembling a morning brief, or turning new information into drafts and decisions.

We design the job first, start it read-only, test it against real weeks of work, and add permissions only where the benefit is obvious. It should feel less like hiring a robot and more like finally documenting the job you have been doing in your head.

Start with a working session
PHASE 01

Find the repeating burden

We map what arrives, what decisions recur, and where your attention is being wasted.

PHASE 02

Build the guarded version

The agent observes and prepares. It does not send, delete, buy, publish, or promise anything.

PHASE 03

Earn more autonomy

Only after it proves reliable do we consider tightly scoped actions, logs, limits, and approval gates.

Local where it matters. Cloud where it genuinely helps. Human approval where consequences begin.

Common questions

Do I need to prepare anything for a session?

No. Bring the thing that is actually annoying you — a task, a pile of admin, a vague sense that you should be using this better. We work on your real situation rather than a general curriculum.

Is this suitable if I am not technical at all?

That is who it is for. There is no assumed knowledge, no jargon, and no expectation that you remember anything between sessions. Most people who book have never used an assistant beyond typing one question into it.

What happens after the session?

You get a short written summary of what we set up and what to do next, in plain language, so you are not relying on memory. Follow-up questions by email are included and I do not charge for them.

What does the session cost?

The working session is $150 for 90 minutes. If the problem turns into a larger custom build, I quote that separately before doing additional work.

Genuinely

Try the free guides first.

If Start Here gets you where you need to be, that’s a better outcome than paying me. Book a session when reading isn’t doing it.

Book the $150 session