Team AI adoption · Small service businesses · Fort Collins & remote

Stop being your team's AI trainer.

You bought the seats. A couple of people poke at it like a search bar, one enthusiast went deep, and somehow teaching everyone else became your job on top of running the business. I spend two days with 5–50 person service teams getting every person working on their own real tasks — so your people get their week back, and you get out of the trainer's seat.

▼ IN THE ROOM WITH YOUR TEAM — FORT COLLINS OR REMOTE · THE PROOF IS BELOW
Taught

A whole team, in two days

A strategic-communications firm spanning a total beginner to a daily power user — delivering for a public-sector client under strict data-handling rules. Everyone left logged in, personalized, and holding a real workflow of their own. Five out of five from every attendee.

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Taught

One person, every week

An ongoing weekly engagement with a single client, working AI into the specific shape of her day-to-day — not a curriculum, her actual inbox and her actual decisions. Her word for it: "invaluable."

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Built — why the teaching lands

A pipeline that ingests and extracts key data from 300+ page legal filings

End-to-end and unattended: finds new filings every week, scrapes and sanitizes them, and extracts the key data into structured, reviewable records. 4,000+ documents processed and counting.

Built — why the teaching lands

One portal serving thousands of users

A custom reporting portal built for a single client whose customers number in the thousands — repeatable and scalable, with a real backend: authentication and a custom PIN for every user, run day to day by non-technical staff.

I've shipped production systems that run unattended for real businesses — and none of it from a computer-science background. No engineering degree, no dev job before this. I learned it the same way the people in your room will have to, which is exactly why it works on someone who has already decided they're "not technical." The building isn't what I sell. It's how I can tell which of your workflows is actually worth the trouble.

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Ways to work together

One engagement, then the part that makes it stick

Most AI training is a good day that fades by week three. This is built as a 90-day arc instead: the intensive installs the capability, the support keeps it from decaying.

Start here

Team AI Adoption Intensive

Two days with your team: everyone onboarded, personalized, and connecting the tools they already use to get real work done. $6,000.

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Then, so it holds

Adoption Support

Monthly office hours, one workflow review, onboarding for anyone you hire, and a quarterly refresh. $1,500/mo, three-month minimum.

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Sometimes a workflow turns out to be worth building for real. I do that too — scoped case by case, and never as a substitute for teaching your team to think. See what I've shipped →

What I actually believe

Your team doesn't have a tool problem

Model capability has run miles ahead of the organizations using it. Buying more seats won't close that gap, because the gap isn't the software — it's that nobody has sat down with your people and connected any of it to the work they actually do. That's the whole job.

I don't automate stupidity

If a process is broken, automating it just breaks it faster. Most of the value in the room comes from finding the shortest honest path from A to B first. That's the harder half, and it's the half most AI training skips entirely.

Nobody here is behind

AI content that makes people feel stupid is a large part of why adoption stalls in the first place. The daily power user and the person who has been quietly avoiding it sit in the same room, and neither one gets talked down to.

Dependency is a failure mode

Every engagement is built so your team keeps going without me — that's the point of it, not a nice side effect. If you still need me in the room for it to work, I haven't finished the job.

Does any of this sound like your team?

Tell me what's actually going on — who's using AI, who isn't, and what you've already tried. The first conversation is free, and you'll leave with a straight read on what would move the needle, whether we end up working together or not.

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Work with me

From bought the seats to actually using them

Two things, in order. The Team AI Adoption Intensive gets everyone on your team working with AI on their own real tasks. Adoption Support is what keeps that true three months later, when the questions have changed and you’ve hired two people. Every engagement starts with a free call.

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Team AI Adoption Intensive

$6,000

Two days with your team, built around the work they actually do. Everyone leaves set up, personalized, and holding a real workflow of their own.

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Then, so it holds

Adoption Support

$1,500/mo

Office hours, a monthly workflow review, onboarding for anyone you hire, and a quarterly refresh. Three-month minimum, then month to month.

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Or, for one person

1:1 Adoption Coaching

$1,500/mo

The same thing for one person instead of a team. A dedicated weekly slot, built around what you want to get good at, worked against your own day-to-day. Up to six hours a month.

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The engagementIn person around Fort Collins, or remote

Team AI Adoption Intensive

Two days that get every person on your team using AI on their own real work — not a lecture about AI, and not a prompt library. Their workflows, their questions, live in the room.

Right now your team has logins nobody really uses. Not for lack of interest — nobody has connected the tool to the work they actually do all week, and most of them quietly assume they’re doing it wrong.

How it works

01
Discovery

A free 30-minute call: your team, your tools, and what “good” would actually look like.

02
Tailoring

I build the whole thing around your real workflows. Your team’s only homework is showing up.

03
Day one · Foundations

Everyone logged in, set up, and comfortable — including the person who’s been avoiding it — with a shared team project built live.

04
Day two · Applied

Everyone personalizes AI to their own voice and work, sees real automations demoed, then builds a workflow of their own.

What you get

  • A personalized, working setup for every seat on the team
  • A shared source-of-truth project for your client work, configured live
  • Real automations demoed against your own processes
  • One real workflow built — or scoped — per person
  • All materials and reusable assets, which your team keeps
  • A written adoption plan, and my read on what shouldn’t change

$6,000 · up to 12 people · discovery, tailoring and follow-up included. Larger teams and multi-site quoted on the call.

The first team

“Alex is a natural educator and he made the session fun and kept the team engaged. The session was organized, thoughtful and customized to our needs.”
— LYNN ZIMMERMAN · CEO, SWING COMMUNICATION

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OngoingNamed in the first proposal, not sold later

Adoption Support

Three weeks after any training, teams drift. New questions surface that nobody had in the room. Somebody gets hired and has no idea what you built. A workflow breaks and people quietly stop using it. This is the part that keeps the first two days true.

What’s included, every month

  • Office hours. One 90-minute open session — the whole team, bring whatever’s stuck.
  • A workflow review. I take one real process apart and tell you what should change. This is the half most training skips.
  • New-hire onboarding. Anyone who joins gets brought up to speed, so the capability survives your headcount.
  • A quarterly refresh. What changed, and what’s newly worth doing.
  • Questions between sessions. Email or Slack, answered — within reason, not on call.

Terms

Adoption Support

$1,500/mo

Starts the month after your sessions. Three-month minimum — the drift shows up around week three, so three months is the shortest window where you’d actually find out whether it stuck. Month to month after that.

1:1 Adoption Coaching

$1,500/mo

The same thing for one person instead of a team — usually an owner or a leader who wants to get genuinely good at this themselves. A dedicated weekly slot, built around what you want to get good at and worked against your own day-to-day rather than a curriculum. Up to six hours a month.

Custom builds

Quoted case by case

Sometimes a workflow turns out to be worth building for real — a pipeline, a portal, an integration, a CRM untangled. I’ve shipped all of those and I still do, scoped individually rather than sold off a menu. But it is never a substitute for your team knowing how to think about this. If someone offers to automate your way out of an adoption problem, be suspicious. See what I’ve shipped →

The Current

A weekly newsletter. What’s actually happening in AI — real use cases, news, and updates — seen through the lens of the life God offers us. An optimist’s take. Read about it →

Not sure this is your problem?

Take the two-minute readiness check, or just book a call — I’ll tell you straight if I’m not the right person for it.

Track record

Taught, and built

The teaching is what I sell. The building is why the teaching is worth buying — I'm not explaining this from the documentation, I'm explaining it from having shipped it. It's also how I can look at one of your workflows and tell you it isn't worth automating. Client details are kept general on purpose.

Delivered · July 2026Swing Communication · strategic communications

The engagement that became the Intensive

Alex is a natural educator and he made the session fun and kept the team engaged. The session was organized, thoughtful and customized to our needs. We're excited to keep building on what we learned.
— LYNN ZIMMERMAN · CEO, SWING COMMUNICATION
5/5
from every attendee
2
hands-on sessions
100%
set up & personalized
1
real workflow per person

The room

Independent contractors spanning a daily AI power user to a complete beginner — delivering a large project for a public-sector client with strict data-handling rules: every AI output human-reviewed, tools limited to an approved list.

What happened

One planning call, two two-hour sessions. Everyone left logged into Claude, writing in their own voice, working in one shared Claude project — each with a real workflow built or scoped. Compliance was designed into the setup, not bolted on after.

Worth being straight about: this was the pilot, run as two short sessions. The Team AI Adoption Intensive is what it grew into — two full days, and the follow-through that this engagement didn't have.

"A steady pace, great humor, thoughtful approach. Alex's teaching style is effortlessly comfortable, straddling the line between experienced and self-effacing."
— JAY MUNSON · OPERATIONS, SWING COMMUNICATION
OngoingWeekly 1:1 · founder of a service business

One person, every week

An ongoing weekly engagement with a single client, working AI into the specific shape of her day-to-day — not a curriculum, her actual inbox and her actual decisions. Each week starts with what’s on her desk, not with a lesson plan.

This is what the 1:1 Adoption Coaching rung is: the same method as the Intensive, for one person instead of a room. Usually the owner getting good at this first.

“Invaluable.”
— HER WORD FOR IT

Built — why the teaching lands

Systems I’ve shipped

Production work, not prototypes — each of these runs or ran for a real business. It isn’t a menu: builds get scoped one at a time, and only after we’re sure the process underneath deserves one. It’s here so you know what I’m drawing on when I tell you a workflow isn’t worth automating. Named clients available on request.

Real estate

Podcast → marketing engine

A searchable knowledge base built over a brokerage’s entire podcast archive, generating social posts and newsletters personalized per agent — every claim cited back to the episode it came from.

RAGpgvectorNext.js
Franchising

Legal-document pipeline

Unattended and weekly: finds 300+ page regulatory filings, scrapes and sanitizes them, and extracts the numbers that matter into structured, reviewable data.

PythonPlaywrightClaude
Franchising

Client reporting portal

Every client gets a live URL into their own data, replacing a hard platform limit — now run day to day by non-technical staff.

Next.jsSupabaseCRM API
Operations

Inbox that answers itself

Reads inbound replies, sorts them by intent, drafts the right response. Shipped in draft mode first, then earned its way to auto-send. Saves 2–3 hours a week.

n8nClaudeGmail
Nonprofit

58 spreadsheets → one record

Twelve years of scattered event data resolved into a single CRM record per person, so staff can finally see someone’s full history — plus a live fundraising view the founder uses weekly.

Airtableentity resolution
Own product

A consumer SaaS app

My own meal-planning product: recipe import, pantry-aware shopping lists, grocery checkout handoff, with AI used inside the product itself. Deployed, with a full end-to-end test suite.

ReactSupabaseClaude API
About

It started with one broken workflow

Alex Clary, founder of clAIry
ALEX CLARY · FORT COLLINS, CO

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.

The technical detail, if you want it

AI Engineering

Claude / LLM pipelinesRAG + citationspgvector / embeddingsclassification promptsmulti-agent orchestrationunattended batch extractionvoice AI

Full-Stack

TypeScriptNext.js / ReactPythonNode / ExpressSupabase / Postgres + RLSVercel / Herokuprogrammatic image rendering

Automation & Integration

n8nHubSpot (deep)AirtableMailchimp / KitKajabi / CircleGmail / Google WorkspacePlaywright scrapingZapier rescue

Data & Trust

entity resolutionfunnel analyticsencrypted credential storageauthz & rate limitingPII-safe loggingcompliance awareness (TCPA)SOPs & ops guides
Operating principles
Ship in draft mode first. Automations earn auto-send; they don't start with it.
Never guess with data. Below 90% confidence, a human reviews — especially when the operation is irreversible.
Every system ships with its own operations guide. If your team needs me to run it, I haven't finished.
Grounded output only. If the AI writes it, the system can show where it came from.
I don't automate stupidity. If the process is broken, automating it just breaks it faster.
Nobody in the room is behind. Content that makes people feel stupid is why adoption stalls.
Contact

Let's talk about your team

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What happens next

  • 01 · Discovery call (free). 30 minutes on your team — who's using AI, who isn't, what you've tried. You'll leave with a straight read either way.
  • 02 · A proposal with both parts in it. The Intensive and the Adoption Support that follows it, priced together. No surprise second conversation later.
  • 03 · Two days, then ninety. The sessions get everyone working. The support is what makes that still true in three months.