Townsend AI Studio
Independent AI advisory + build · Solo

Move fast and know how it works.

I'm an advisor and a builder for small companies getting real value out of AI. I work alongside your team, in your actual workflow, and you leave with tools that fit and the skills to run them.

Lauren Townsend
Lauren TownsendAdvisor and builder

How the free assessment works

00 / How the free assessment works

The first call is so I understand your work and where the hours go. The second is where I show you, on your actual workflow, what I'd fix, what you can fix yourself for free, and what I'd charge to do the rest. You leave with a readout: a short written document you can forward.

2
calls, one per company
$0
cost of the assessment
~2 hrs
of your time, total
1
written readout you can forward
How the assessment works, in detail →
Operating model

Built with you, not for you.

One path from the first call to your staff running the tools without me. Governance first (about two weeks), then the build, then the handover: your team runs it, or we're not done.

  1. 01
    Governance firstabout two weeks

    Governance means the rules and accounts for who can put what into which AI system. It's the part most people skip, so it comes first.

  2. 02
    Build it with youweeks to months

    Weekly working sessions. You're at the keyboard for enough of it that you can change it later. Some of it won't use AI at all.

  3. 03
    Hand it overhow it ends

    Someone on your team runs a full cycle without me, while I watch. That's the test the engagement has to pass. The skills and docs are packaged as yours.

Three ways to start

Pick a door.

01 / The free assessment

Two calls, one per company. You show me the work; I show you what I'd fix, what you can fix yourself for free, and what I'd charge for the rest.

It's how every build engagement starts, and it costs you two hours.

Written readoutFix-it-yourself listScoped proposal
02 / Customized training

A live session built on your actual work. Not a workshop, not a curriculum.

Before we meet, you send me the thing — the report you rebuild every month, the process nobody wants to own — and I build the session around it. One on one or a small group. By the end you've done it once, on your own files, and you have the written version to do it again. If you already have the tools and what's missing is a team that uses them, this is the door. Paid, scoped to your team's size and what you bring. I don't run generic training.

One on one or small groupYour own filesA written version to keep
03 / Build + handover

You bring the problem. I build the whole thing and leave you an interface your team runs.

A new website, an intake form, the reporting nobody wants to consolidate by hand. I do the full build, wired into the systems you already pay for, and hand it over with a plain-language interface and the written version of how it works. Your staff runs it after I'm gone, no engineers required. Scoped and priced per phase, so the number depends on what we agree to build.

Full build, end to endPlugged into your systemsYour team runs it
Selected work

Names withheld. The numbers are real.

01 / A housing non-profitNonprofit

AI across every department, run by a team with no engineers

Governance first, then 25 tools built with their staff and 7 switched on out of the box — 3 of them plain automation with no AI. Every one is run by their own team.

25
built with them
7
switched on
3
with no AI
02 / A family health startupHealth

The best thing they'd built wasn't shipping

346 independently verified records, fully built, reaching zero users. The assessment found it. A free punch list and a scoped three-phase plan came out of it.

346
verified records
0
users reached
3
phases scoped
03 / A SaaS product teamSoftware

Five skills, one product manager, trained one on one

One product manager, five skills built around their actual work, trained one on one.

Less AI than the others — and the clearest picture of how the handover works.

5
skills built
1
person trained
1:1
format
What I believe

Positions you can disagree with.

Governance before tools

No sensitive data enters an AI system until the rules and the accounts exist.

It's about two weeks, and it's the part that gets skipped.

Not everything needs AI

Three of the tools in my most recent engagement are plain scripts.

If that's what removes the work, that's what I build.

More about me →

Availability

Two calls, free. Bring the real work.

It's just me, so I run a few assessments a month. The first two calls are free. If I'm booked, I'll tell you when.

Start with a free assessment →
Reply: 2 business daysSeattle & remote