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Five tracks, one method. Whether the subject is Claude, a court docket, a data broker, or a Mac that has been fighting you for six years, the session looks the same: your hands on the keyboard, my explanation next to it, and a written summary at the end so you are not relying on memory a week later.
I would rather teach a skill than rent it to you. A newsroom that can run its own records checks is faster and cheaper than one that outsources them. A person who can configure their own AI project does not need to book me again. The goal is that you stop needing me, and I say that out loud because it is the part most consultants leave off.
Learning AI Without Becoming Technical
The people who get the most out of this track are not beginners. They are experts, in medicine or law or design or research, who have been told for three years that software is about to replace them. That is a bad reason to avoid a tool and a very good reason to be careful with it.
The obstacle is almost never intelligence and almost never the software. Nobody sat down with them. So we sit down: your actual work, your actual files, one workflow that earns its place by the end of the session.
One of them is a medical illustrator in his late seventies. He had spent more than twenty years working in digital imaging before we ever spoke, and he had become skeptical of AI.
I had become skeptical of AI for a multitude of reasons… Through conversations with Apostolos, I began to open my eyes, so to speak, and then my ears… I am now an avid user of Claude. I’m using it in ways I never would have thought possible… His sensitivity to people who ask basic questions is remarkable. He listens patiently all the way to the end, no matter how long, repetitive, or elementary the question might be, and he responds to every level of competency without ever making someone feel behind.
— D.A.K., medical illustrator, late seventies
I also teach where it fails. Invented citations, confident agreement with things that are wrong, and categories of work it should never touch. In a market built on overpromising, the limits are the part worth paying for.
The Other Direction
The public record holds you, too. Your address, your relatives, your phone number, your prior addresses, your employer, your court history, assembled and resold by data brokers you have never heard of and never agreed to.
For most people that is a nuisance. For someone being pursued, it is a map. The self-audit and footprint reduction track exists for that person: we find what is exposed, and then we take it down, one broker and one account at a time. You learn the process, because the brokers repopulate and you will need to do it again without me.
What I Do Not Do
I teach. I do not do the work for you. I do not accept engagements that involve researching a third party on someone else’s behalf. If that is what you need, I am the wrong person, and I will say so on the intro call rather than waste your time.
The reason for the boundary is not only regulatory. The techniques that let a journalist verify a source are the same techniques that let an abuser find someone who moved. I screen every engagement for that, and I decline work whose purpose I cannot establish. A person asking to be taught how to locate someone specific is not a training client, and I say no.
Start Free
Ten tutorials covering device security, encrypted communication, deepfake recognition, and documentation practice are published on this site at no cost. Read those first. If they answer your question, you do not need to book anything.
Engagement Models
Per session for individual coaching, in any track. Day rate for organizational workshops. Fixed scope for curriculum development. Reduced rates for anyone the first three would price out, asked for and given without paperwork.