You know AI can change everything.You just haven't had time to build.
Running complex orgs and full lives doesn't leave room for 6-hour tutorials.
We help you build your AI stack and get your team moving.
The problems we hear every time
Leaders who see the stakes and feel the gap. These are the tensions they bring to us.
Personal fluency
You know AI matters but haven't had time to build your own stack. You're making decisions about something you're not yet operating in yourself.
Variable executive skills and buy-in
Your leadership team is at different levels. Some are all in; others are skeptical or overwhelmed. You need alignment, not more training decks.
EA and Chief of Staff underutilized
They're your highest-leverage people, but the operating model wasn't built around them. They could do more. The system holds them back.
Board and plan questions
AI is on every board agenda. They'll ask what you're doing. You need a real answer and a strategy that holds up.
Potential vs. operating model
You see the potential. The hard part is how you get everyone to change: roles, rituals, and expectations. How do you move the whole org?
Management, not tools
The gap isn't which AI to buy. It's how you hire, onboard, orchestrate, and lead around it. That's a management problem.
Three ways to work with us
Engagements for you and your org, or a cohort if you learn best with peers.
High-touch · Flagship
Executive AI Coaching
Get fluent. A single 6–8 hour intensive to design and launch your AI stack, with your EA and Chief of Staff in the room. Three execs max per cohort. Monthly sessions after so it sticks.
- Single intensive: stack designed and in motion (personal + work)
- EA and Chief of Staff alongside you, same room, same plan
- Tiny cohort (3 execs) so the work is real, not broadcast
- Monthly sessions after to keep the momentum
High-touch · Scaled
AI Transformation
From scattered experiments to org-wide change. We start in EPD, then bring the same engineering mindset and AI fluency to every function: sales, ops, finance, support. A new operating model for the whole company, not a tool rollout for one team.
- Starts in EPD, then scales across the org. Built for CEOs who want company-wide change.
- Adoption that holds: culture, workflows, and roles that actually shift
- Who does what when prototyping is cheap (spec → design → build)
- Shaped to your stage, team size, and real constraints
Cohort-based · With Zach Davis
Executive Playbook for AI in EPD
Two days on Maven with peers in the same seat: VPs of Eng, CTOs, CPOs, Staff+ Engineers. Where AI creates real leverage, how to build a culture that actually adopts, and how to make the codebase agent-ready. Claire and Zach teach. Guest firesides with leaders like Nan Yu (Linear) and Chintan Turakhia (Coinbase).
- Live sessions with two operators who've run this inside real orgs
- Firesides with leaders from Linear, Coinbase, and others
- Pre-work, 90 days of office hours, private Slack, and lifetime replay access
- Backed by the Maven Guarantee
Run by operators, not consultants
Why work with Claire & team?
3x CPTO
Ex-founder. Product, engineering, and design at scale. Now building with AI every day. Operator DNA, not consulting BS.
Host, How I AI
The podcast: 50+ conversations with EPD leaders on what's actually working. The deepest bench of AI adoption stories out there.
Intentionally small cohorts
Flagship coaching = three execs max. Full attention, full accountability.
Picky about who we work with
Executives and leadership teams ready to invest in fluency and org change. Individuals and teams, across industries.
What execs tell us on the first call
I know AI changes everything. I just haven't had time to build my own stack yet.
CEO
70 engineers using AI tools on their own. No central strategy. Uneven adoption everywhere.
Engineering Leader
Just set this up for me, my wife, and my chief of staff.
C-Suite, Late Stage Startup
We have budget for AI. We just need the playbook.
SVP Product
We've done this before.
Here's how to start.
Work with us directly, or join the Maven cohort.
Tell us where you're at and we'll point you to the right fit.