Gourdanen · Simone Dive · Vancouver
Find where AI actually earns its keep in your business
Your business knows AI matters. What it can't do is cut through the noise. What's real, what's hype, and what should your team actually change on Monday?
I co-founded The Proxies, an AI company that runs fleets of AI employees inside real businesses. I work in ChatGPT, Claude and whatever your team already has open, on your actual work, in your actual systems.
Who this is for
- Business owners who want a straight answer on where AI earns its keep
- Leaders whose teams are curious but stuck, or sceptical and stalled
- Departments whose workflows are ready to change but do not know where to start
- Individuals who want to build a real AI skill set, not collect prompts
Ways we can work together
AI diagnosis
I sit with each department, map how the work actually happens, and hand you a ranked plan of where AI earns its keep first and what to skip.
One to one coaching
Private sessions on your real work. The quote you are writing, the report you dread, the inbox. You bring the laptop, we build the thing, and you keep it.
Workflow redesign
One department at a time. We rebuild how the work happens with AI in the loop, live, with the people who do it.
Team development
Skill assessments, development paths and real structure, so learning compounds instead of fizzling after the lunch and learn.
What you walk away with
- A ranked list of where AI earns its keep in your business, and what to leave alone
- Recurring work handed over: the weekly report, the first draft of proposals, the follow-ups that slip
- Saved setups your team reuses instead of starting from a blank prompt every time
- The judgment to tell a good answer from a confident wrong one
- A way to size up AI vendors and tools without taking their word for it
- People who can teach the next person, so it does not stop when I leave
How it runs
A free call first. Twenty minutes on what your business does, where the time goes, and whether I can help. If I cannot, I will say so.
Then we work side by side in your real tasks. No slides, no hypotheticals, and nothing that only works in a demo. I use AI myself throughout, so I can read more of your business than one person normally could.
You keep everything we build. The prompts, the saved setups, the rewritten workflow, written down so your team runs it without me. The goal is a team that can tell good AI work from confident nonsense.
“I had absolutely no clue what I was doing in AI but everyone kept telling me I had to figure it out. I am a sole business owner and already time strapped, so the thought of trying to learn tech with no support made me gag.
I was referred to Simone from a friend and from day one she has been so patient, knowledgeable and kind with showing me the ropes. I have asked her so many dumb questions and she always just makes me feel ok for doing so.
I have found the AI transition stressful if I’m honest, but since working with Simone each month, bit by bit getting help to use AI in new ways, I am getting more time back and also learning a lot in the process. I am no longer completely clueless and have Simone to thank for that.
Brooke Ventouras · AI coaching
Fair questions
We tried AI tools and they did not stick. Why would this be different?
Tools do not stick when they are bolted onto workflows nobody changed. I start with the workflow and the person. When people watch their own work get better in front of them, it sticks.
Do you coach non-technical people?
Mostly, yes. The biggest gains right now are in everyday knowledge work. Operations, marketing, sales, admin, management. No code required.
Which tools will we actually use?
Whatever fits your business, usually ChatGPT or Claude plus the things you already pay for. I care about the workflow, not about selling you a subscription.
Do you work in person or remotely?
Both. I am in Vancouver, Canada, so if you are here I can work on site with your team, which is the better way to do workflow redesign. Everything also runs remotely for businesses anywhere.
How do paid sessions work?
A free intro call first so I understand what you are after. If it is a fit, I share session options and pricing there. Sessions run remotely, built around your real work.
Featured free seed packets
Three worth starting with on this path. Take them whether we ever work together or not. See all of them.
The 6 Week AI Challenge, start here
The beginner path. Six weeks of small experiments in your own work, each week a different way of using AI. Showing it things instead of typing, handing it your files, saving a setup so you stop re-explaining, connecting it to where the work lives, and building a small tool. Pick the version for your role once you are in.
Use it if you keep meaning to get AI working for you and it keeps not happening.
Start the challengeThe AI Business Diagnosis
A free review of your business, department by department. Workflows, whether AI is the default or an afterthought, capability, willingness to change. Invite others to score it too and merge the reviews into one bloom.
Use it before you spend a dollar on AI tools or consultants.
Start the diagnosisThe Barrier Diagnosis for a business
Score every department or team on the five questions a change has to pass, in order. The first one they score three or lower is their barrier, and it is different for each team. That is why one all-hands training never works.
Use it when a change is landing in some parts of the business and not others.
Run the diagnosisTell me what you want to grow.
It starts with a conversation, not a contract. No pitch, no deck about decks.
Plant something with me