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You need a clear place to start.
AI Strategy
Find where your business loses time and money, and where AI could help most.
Focused discovery and a practical roadmap.
- AI opportunities ranked by business value
- A practical plan for where to start
For founders & business leaders
Make AI
useful.
I’m Daniel Donovan. I help founders and business leaders reduce repetitive work across emails, documents and follow-ups. We find a useful starting point and build your team’s confidence to put AI to work.
Free · 30 minutes · Online · No preparation needed.
Daniel DonovanStrategist. Educator. Practical thinker.
Melbourne / Working across Australia
01 / The approach
Clarity before
complexity.
Start with your business. Understand what holds it back before choosing the tools.
Find the support that fits- 01
Understand
See how work gets done, who’s involved and where your team gets stuck.
- 02
Measure
Work out what manual tasks, delays and rework cost in time and money.
- 03
Choose
Prioritise where AI could help most, then select the right tools for the work.
- 04
Implement
Build your team’s confidence, agree who’s responsible and check what improves.
02 / How I help
Meet your business
where it is.
Choose the support that fits your next step.
02
Your team needs confidence and practice.
Team Education
Help your people use AI confidently through talks and hands-on workshops built around their work.
A talk, workshop or guided working sessions.
- Practice with tasks your team recognises
- Simple guidance they can use afterwards
03
You have a useful idea to put into practice.
AI Implementation Support
Turn a promising idea into a way of working your team can use and check.
Build, test and refine agreed workflows together.
- The right tools, guidance and quality checks
- A clear way to measure what improves
We agree the work, deliverables and fee before a paid engagement begins.
Not sure which fits? We can work that out together
What that could look like
Less admin.
More time winning work.
A new enquiry can mean chasing details, searching past work and preparing a proposal from scratch. AI can help organise the requirements and prepare a first draft, while your team stays in control of the advice, pricing and final response.
03 / About Daniel
A practical mind.
A human centre.
Daniel Donovan
I’m an AI strategist, educator and consultant with more than 10 years in financial services.
My experience spans technology, strategy, project delivery, people operations and compliance. I bring that business perspective to helping teams use AI well.
Outside work: dad, long-distance runner, Collingwood fanatic, podcast listener and lover of musicals.
Work with meClient feedback
What it’s like
to work with me.
…he got in front of the team, sat down with the people actually doing the work, and asked where things get stuck.
…he understood the realities and nuances of our business, and made recommendations that felt appropriate and actionable for us…
Where does work get stuck in your team?
Talk it through for free04 / Your next step
Let’s make
it useful.
Tell me what’s slowing your team down. We’ll talk through where AI might help and a sensible place to start.
No preparation needed. Just a conversation.
Book a free
30-minute chat.
30 minutesOnlineFree
No suitable time, or prefer email?
Send a little about your business and a time that suits you.
Before we talk.
What happens in the free chat?
We talk about how your team works, where things get stuck and where AI could help. If there’s a fit, I’ll explain the support that could make sense. If there isn’t, I’ll say so.
Do we need to know which service we want?
No. You can come with a business problem, a learning need or an idea you want to put into practice. We can discuss whether strategy, education or implementation support fits your next step.
What if we already use AI tools?
Start with what your team already uses and the work you need to improve. The aim is to choose tools by their usefulness to your business, rather than add complexity.
How do we keep people in control?
Agree what AI can prepare, what information it can use and who checks the result. The enquiry-to-proposal example above shows this: your team retains the decisions about scope, pricing and the final response.
Optional / Before we talkThink through your challenge.
Two questions.
A useful starting point.
This is optional. Write down the challenge and the change you want to see, then copy your brief into your booking notes.
Your answers stay in this browser. Nothing is sent when you create the brief. They clear when you leave or reload, so copy anything you want to keep.
05 / Practical notes
A little clarity.
Something to use.
Short reads. Practical next steps.
Find your first useful AI project.
Choose a task worth improving before choosing a tool.
Read the noteMake an AI workshop count on Monday.
Help your team put the learning to work after the session.
Read the noteMake AI part of everyday work.
Agree who’s responsible, what to check and when to review.
Read the note