Ted Smoot
I help professionals use AI without becoming tech people.
I write a weekly newsletter and build tools that answer one question: how do you actually work with AI, starting this week?
Subscribe to the Newsletter I help professionals use AI without becoming tech people.
I write a weekly newsletter and build tools that answer one question: how do you actually work with AI, starting this week?
Subscribe to the NewsletterA few years ago, I was the person in every AI meeting who nodded along and understood maybe 40% of what was being said. I've spent 15+ years in tech: systems administration, enterprise platforms, the kind of work where you solve real problems for real teams. But when AI started reshaping how knowledge work gets done, I realized most of the advice out there was written by engineers for engineers.
So I started figuring it out for myself. Testing workflows. Stripping out the jargon. Keeping what actually saved time and throwing away what didn't.
That's how Consulting The Machine started: a weekly newsletter that delivers one tested AI workflow, in plain English, ready to use by the end of your lunch break. I write it alongside my co-founder Josh Vehovic for professionals who have real jobs, real deadlines, and no interest in becoming prompt engineers.
I also write a weekly LinkedIn series called Sunday Morning AI where I think out loud about what this transition actually looks like from the inside. Not the hype, not the panic, just an honest take from someone navigating it alongside you.
Most professionals start their week with two questions: What do I need to accomplish? How do I need to communicate with the people around me?
I think there's now a third: How am I going to communicate with AI to get the best possible results?
That's the question behind everything I write. Not "will AI take your job," but how do you actually work with it, this week, starting Monday morning? Every newsletter issue, every workflow, every tool I build comes back to making that third question feel manageable.
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