Automate Your Work & Life with AI
Bring me a repetitive task, workflow, or personal process you want to automate, and we’ll build it together. This is a hands-on session focused on turning AI from something you occasionally chat with into something that actively saves you time. Depending on your goals, we might set up scheduled AI tasks, recurring research, email summaries, reminders, monitoring workflows, connected apps, or multi-step automations. You don’t need to know how to code. We’ll start with the outcome you want, break the workflow into steps, identify what AI can realistically handle, and then build as much of it as possible during the session. Example projects might include: 1. A daily AI-generated summary of important emails 2. Weekly monitoring of jobs, competitors, markets, news, or events 3. Automated research and recurring reports 4. Personal reminders and intelligent follow-ups 5. Summarizing information from multiple sources 6. Building repeatable workflows around ChatGPT and other AI tools 7. Turning a manual process you perform every week into an AI-assisted system The session is tailored around your actual workflow, NOT just some generic demo.
What's included
This session will be interactive, flipping screen sharing between you and me while we both go through building out these automations. AI proficiency is not mandatory, but you SHOULD have at least a basic subscription to ChatGPT, Grok, or Anthropic etc.
- A working or clearly designed automation for a real task in your life or work
- A better understanding of what AI can and cannot reliably automate
- A framework for breaking manual processes into AI-friendly workflows
- Experience using scheduled tasks, connected tools, prompts, and recurring workflows
- Practical ideas for additional tasks you can automate
- A repeatable method for finding high-value AI automation opportunities
Meet your expert
Colin B.
Product Lead at Poolside | AI Strategy & Product Development
I've spent my career at the intersection of technology, customers, and product, from small IT consulting firms to MongoDB, AWS, and most recently Poolside, where I joined as the company's first Solutions Architect and later moved into Product leadership. At Poolside, I helped build the global Solutions Architecture organization from 0 to 7 before identifying an opportunity around sovereign AI, building the first prototype myself, and ultimately leading the resulting product line. Over roughly 14 months, we grew it to ~$3M ARR and 40+ deployments across enterprise, government, and highly regulated environments. I've made several career transitions myself, from IT consulting → Sales Engineering → Solutions Architecture → Product, and I've interviewed extensively across startups and large technology companies. I have an MBA from Boston University and particularly enjoy helping people think through career positioning, technical interviews, compensation, startup opportunities, and how to move between technical, product, and customer-facing roles. I'm also an active builder. Outside of work I've launched my own AI-powered market analytics SaaS and built an open-source agent harness. For anyone looking to understand or build with AI, I'm happy to work hands-on across LLMs, agents, cloud architecture, product strategy, and turning an idea into something real.
