I'm a communicator by training — a Communication Studies degree from Colorado State, then almost two years at a premier marketing agency, then a startup that hired me for the marketing experience. What I found there became a passion: automation and AI.
It started with a workflow nobody wanted to do. I was updating a CRM by hand, so I automated it. The first build I was genuinely proud of was a data-entry process with eight separate manual touchpoints that took 24 to 48 hours to get through. I got it down to two or three minutes, start to finish, with nobody touching it.
That snowballed. Custom reports running on live CRM data. Then client portals stitching several systems together for a realty brokerage. Now I take everything I've learned and hand that proprietary knowledge to teams who are just dipping their toes in.
Then someone asked me, more or less on a whim, to teach their team how to use Claude.
I didn't expect that to be the thing — but it was. Workshopping real workflow ideas live with people, watching someone who was certain they were "not technical" build their first working automation inside a two-hour session. I'm a natural teacher, and I like beginners best.
So that's what clAIry is: teaching teams to think with AI in ways that are actually practical. No computer-science degree, no dev job before this — thousands of hours and dozens of shipped systems, learned the same way the people I teach will have to. That's exactly why it lands with people who are sure this isn't for them.
These days I work with owners and operations leaders of service businesses, roughly five to fifty people. Not tech companies — firms where everyone is already busy doing the actual work, the AI seats got bought months ago, and training everybody has quietly become the owner's job.