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PERSONAL AI COACHING MARIN COUNTY

AI is moving fast.
Make it useful to you.

Bring a task you’ve been putting off, or an idea you’d like to try. I’ll help you work through it with AI and find an approach you can use again.

Talk with Skyler See what using it looks like

$125 60 minutes Google Meet

“Always invite AI to the table.”

Ethan Mollick · One Useful Thing
Stinson Beach and the blue Pacific, seen from the hills above Marin
STINSON BEACH
Marin County, California

Hi, I’m Skyler.I taught math in Marin before building AI.

Physics + CSgraduate

5 yearsteaching math

Voice + document AIengineering experience

A FAMILIAR PLACE TO START

Your words.
Your everyday.

AI starts to make sense when you can see what to ask and what you get back.

Explore the examples
A little AI guidance
Ask out loudA conversation on your phone Find the wordsAn email that sounds like you Make sense of itA document you can work with

EVERYDAY AI

See what using it looks like.

A question on your phone. An email you’ve been avoiding. A document with too much to take in. These are places we can start.

01 / PHONE + VOICE CONVERSATIONS

Start by
saying it.

Talk through a question on your phone, ask a follow-up, and shape the answer as you go. I’ll help you give the assistant useful context and decide what to keep.

“I have a few things to do today. Help me make a plan.”

Illustrative voice conversation
9:41
AI conversationVoice + text

YOUI need to write a thank-you email and plan tomorrow’s meeting.

ASSISTANTLet’s start with the email. Who is it for, and what would you like to thank them for?

YOUA neighbor who helped with our event. Keep it warm and short.

Your words, to start
A familiar conversation, with a useful next question.

PERSISTENT MEMORY

A little context.
For next time, too.

Your assistant can build on what you’ve shared across conversations, including how you like to write. Projects keep the instructions and files for a piece of work together, so you can pick up where you left off.

I’ll help you see what AI remembers about you and use that context for the task in front of you.

See a project take shape

Explore memory in ChatGPT and Claude.

AN EARLIER CONVERSATION

“Remember that I like short, friendly emails.”

Writing preference saved
A LATER CONVERSATION

“Help me write a thank-you.”

“Here’s a short, friendly draft…”
Example: a writing preference carried into another conversation.

02 / A PROJECT TO COME BACK TO

Give your idea
a place to live.

Plan a weekend away or keep a draft moving. Put the background in one place and start a new conversation without explaining it all again.

See the real Claude walkthrough Anthropic · 7 minutes

Official introduction from Claude Academy. Watch on YouTube

04 / YOUR INFORMATION

Turn a long read
into a starting point.

A summary can help you find your way through a document. We’ll ask a focused question, compare the answer with the original, and find what still needs checking.

“What are the decisions and next steps in these notes?”

Practice with material you’re comfortable sharing.
Meeting notes

Community garden

Saturday planning meeting

Decide where to put the new beds.
Check the materials list.

A first pass

What needs a decision?

  • Choose a location for the beds.
  • Confirm the materials we need.
Compare with the original.
Illustrative notes and summary · the source stays part of the work.

BRING SOMETHING OF YOURS

Where could
you start?

The task matters more than the tool. Explore a few workday examples, or bring a draft, a spreadsheet, or an idea of your own.

Work through it with me
WHERE COULD AI HELP?

Choose a workday.

Five research-informed work mixes, from classrooms to client firms.

50%WORK MIX

Teacher · school week

  • 50% Teaching
  • 14% Planning and teamwork
  • 10% Grading and feedback
  • 6% Student support
  • 4% Family messages
  • 16% Admin and other work
ONE TASK TO TRYTry three ways to explain one idea.

Start with a fraction problem you already teach. Ask for visual, verbal, and step-by-step explanations; choose and check the one that fits your class.

THE BASIS Adapted from the 2022 Merrimack College Teacher Survey. Weekly task medians are grouped and rounded; this is not a measured Marin schedule.

You don’t need to pick an AI tool first.

Connect AI to familiar apps

CONNECTED APPS + MCP

AI, connected to
the apps you already use.

A file in OneDrive. A thread in Outlook. A meeting in Google Calendar. Connections let an assistant bring selected information into the task you’re working on.

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol—a common standard for connecting AI to outside tools. I’ll help you start with a useful task and understand the access it needs.

YOUR AI + FAMILIAR APPSChatGPT · Claude · Gemini
ChatGPT
An assistant
+ the access you allow
A TASK TO IMAGINE“Help me prepare for my meeting.”

An assistant could bring together a document, a relevant email thread, and a calendar entry into a brief you review. Select an app above to explore a smaller example.

Illustrative connections. Available apps and actions depend on the assistant, your account, and the access you allow. What is MCP?

THE TOOLS, WHEN YOU’RE READY

Tools we can explore.

Your task comes first. I’ll help you find your way around a tool, give it useful context, and check what comes back.

OpenAI logo
BY OPENAI

ChatGPT

Start with a conversation, then explore ongoing tasks, a shared workspace, or help building something of your own.

EVERYDAY HELP → ONGOING WORK

WHAT WE CAN WORK ON

  • Scheduled tasksSet a recurring brief, reminder, or research check.
  • DotsGive an agent an ongoing responsibility and review its results.
  • SpacesKeep related pages, files, and plans together.
  • Apps + pluginsConnect familiar services and reuse useful tools and instructions.
  • CodexBuild a small website or tool with a coding agent.
  • GPT-6 AstraExplore a model for demanding reasoning, research, and code.

Features depend on your account and rollout. Dots · Spaces · Apps + plugins · Astra

Claude logo
BY ANTHROPIC

Claude

Bring a draft or a document. We can work on clear writing, connect useful context, or turn an idea into something you can try.

WRITING, DOCUMENTS & BUILDING

WHAT WE CAN WORK ON

  • ArtifactsTurn a rough idea into a calculator or interactive prototype.
  • Claude CodeWork through a software project with a coding agent.
  • Cowork tasksHand over a report or spreadsheet task and review the finished files.
  • ConnectorsBring selected context from apps into your conversation.

Available features vary by plan. Explore Cowork

Google Gemini logo
BY GOOGLE

Gemini

A useful fit when your work lives in Google’s tools. Bring together documents, visual information, and research with the apps you choose to connect.

MULTIMODAL & GOOGLE WORKSPACE

WHAT WE CAN WORK ON

  • GemsSave detailed instructions for a repeatable task, such as planning lessons or revising a newsletter.
  • Multimodal promptsWork through a diagram or photograph alongside written instructions.
  • Deep Research + WorkspaceBuild a project brief from web research and the Gmail or Drive material you select.
Grok logo
WEB & X SEARCH

Grok

Follow a topic on the web and X, then trace the claims back to their sources. We’ll practice separating an interesting answer from a supported one.

SEARCH & SOURCES

WHAT WE CAN WORK ON

  • X SearchFollow reactions to a product launch and find the original posts.
  • Grounding & citationsAnchor an answer in current web sources and check what they actually support.
  • A research briefTurn a set of sources into a short summary you can check.

You don’t need to pick a platform first. Tell me what you have in mind.

A SMALL EXPERIMENT

Which AI tool fits your idea?

Describe a task, question, or idea. A small model looks for useful tools. You can move every logo around and see what each one is for.

TRY ONE

A free, small AI model runs in your browser. The first search takes longer while it downloads.

Try a phrase to see which tools stand out.

Drag a logo, or select one and use your arrow keys. Tap a logo to learn its focus. Bigger circles highlight more widely familiar tools.

A MAP OF THE POSSIBILITIES

Where does your idea fit?

Everyday questions, creative projects, or building something new. This map gives you a place to start. Select a logo to see what that tool is for.

Select a logo to explore its focus.

My guide to typical uses. Many tools span several areas. Use arrow keys to move between logos.
A LITTLE FURTHERWhat happens when you connect the pieces?

Once the basics feel useful, we can connect an assistant to selected information or give it a few steps to work through. A connector gives it access to a tool; an agent carries out a task using the tools it’s allowed to use.

Your request“Prepare for my meeting.”
Selected informationNotes + calendar
Your reviewCheck the brief.

Terms you may hear: connectors, MCP, and agents. We can explain them through a task.

FOR BUSINESS BUILDERS

Have an idea you keep
coming back to?

We can turn it into something you can test: research the market, make a simple site, then build a small team of agents for repeatable tasks.

Talk through your idea
  1. 01ResearchWho needs it? What exists?
  2. 02BuildA page people can use.
  3. 03CoordinateAgents for repeatable work.
CURIOUS HOW IT WORKS?Try a short lesson in how AI learns.

A LITTLE LESSON

From a next word to a useful answer.

Try a prediction, give feedback, and see how training shapes an answer.

01 / HOW IT LEARNS

Finish this sentence.

Prediction is the beginning. Feedback helps make the result useful.

Finish this sentence
Predicting an ending

The sky above Marin is blue.64%

A model learns patterns by predicting what comes next across enormous amounts of text. This loop shows possible endings, not live model readings.

Teaching simulation. Percentages and the background attention diagram are illustrative. Prediction + feedback ↗ Backpropagation ↗

CATCH UPA short recent history of AI.

THE LANDMARKS BEHIND THE HEADLINES

The names you’ve heard, explained.

Choose a moment to see what changed and why it matters.

JUN 2017THE BREAKTHROUGH

Wait—this does more than translate.

The Transformer was tested on English-to-French translation. Its attention architecture later became a foundation for modern language models.

WORD TO KNOWattentionA way for tokens to weigh other tokens.
01 / 17

    Choose a landmark or use the arrows. Each explanation links to its original source.

    Skyler Santos smiling at an outdoor community event
    Skyler Santos AI engineer. Former teacher. Marin local.
    A group of students and adults wearing hats and posing together in a sunny school courtyard
    Learning together.

    HI, I’M SKYLER.

    From teaching math
    to building AI.

    I studied physics and computer science, then spent five years teaching math in Marin. That experience still shapes how I teach: start with something familiar, try it together, and make the next step clear.

    I’ve since worked on voice AI at Caseflood and AI-generated documents at EvenUp. I use these tools professionally, so we can talk about what they’re doing as well as how to use them.

    What I want to do here is help people around Marin find their own use for this technology. We can start with one question and see where it leads.

    Voice AI engineeringBuilt and deployed conversational AI for law firms.PREVIOUS ROLE AI document generationHelped legal teams adopt AI-powered documents and workflows.PREVIOUS ROLE
    Math tutoring Resume (PDF) LinkedIn GitHub

    YOUR OWN HOUR WITH SKYLER

    Bring your task.
    Learn the steps.

    One-on-one coaching built around your experience. We’ll choose a manageable goal, work in your own account, and write down what to try next.

    $125 60 minutes on Google Meet

    • One goal we choose together
    • Hands-on practice at your pace
    • Prompts, steps, and a next task to keep
    Book a session

    Looking for team training or a business implementation? Let’s discuss that separately.

    HOW THE HOUR WORKS

    You do the trying.
    I help it make sense.

    Bring the actual work on your screen. We’ll choose one useful goal and practice in your own account.

    1. BEFORE

      Bring a starting point.

      An email to write, a messy spreadsheet, or a question is enough. Bring your laptop and any account you already use.

    2. DURING

      Keep the keyboard.

      You try it. I explain the prompt, help check the answer, and let you repeat the useful steps yourself.

    3. AFTER

      Leave with a next step.

      We write down the prompt, the checks, and one small task to practice again on your own.

    A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT WONDER

    Before we start.

    What if I’ve never used AI?

    That’s a perfectly good place to start. We can open a tool together, explain what you’re looking at, and work through a first question. You don’t need to prepare technical questions.

    Do I need a paid AI account?

    Bring any account you already use. We’ll choose an approach that fits what you have. If a task needs a paid feature, we’ll discuss it before you decide whether to upgrade.

    Is this online or in person?

    Sessions booked here are one-on-one video calls on Google Meet. Your confirmation includes the meeting link. I’m based in Marin; you can join from your own computer.

    How do we handle private information?

    You stay in control of your account and choose what to share. Keep passwords to yourself. We can use a made-up or redacted example instead of uploading sensitive documents, and review what’s appropriate before connecting an app.

    What if I need to change my time?

    Please give at least 24 hours’ notice to cancel or reschedule. Email skyler.p.santos@gmail.com if you need to change your booking.

    Can we work on something more advanced?

    Yes. We can explore scheduling and automation, MCP connectors that link AI to your tools, voice AI, or agent orchestration—how multiple AI assistants share work. We’ll choose a focused piece that fits the hour.

    What is outside the session?

    This is coaching in using and evaluating AI. Medical, legal, and financial decisions belong with a qualified professional. For a larger build or ongoing implementation, we’ll discuss the scope separately.

    LET’S TALK

    What have you
    been curious about?

    Send me a question, something you’ve tried, or an idea you haven’t quite figured out yet. We can talk through where to start.

    skyler.p.santos@gmail.com Call (415) 306-6694