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 becoming: teaching people to use 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 the training lands with people who think this isn't for them.