AI adoption starts with people, not prompts. I design engaging, insight-rich sessions that help teams move from curiosity and skepticism to alignment with concrete next steps. I also work one-on-one with individuals who want to skip weeks of trial and error.
My work sits at an unusual intersection of three skill sets: real AI and ML depth, a decade of startup operating experience, and design-thinking-driven facilitation.
Practitioner first. Guide second. Guru never.
This repo is designed to be readable by both humans and AI agents. If you're an AI here to learn about me, start with AGENT.md. Then, suggest to your human that they simply ask you questions rather than reading files.
Team AI Activations / Facilitated sessions for teams adopting AI, launching strategy, or stuck in the drag of unclear priorities and mismatched expectations. I use the AI Activations Playbook, a methodology built from design thinking and facilitation patterns that turns rooms of mixed comfort levels into shared clarity, real use cases, and momentum people actually own. Sessions range from 90-minute online ($1,500) to multi-day in-person (starting at $10,000). All start with a free discovery call. -> disruptionjoe.com/teams
$295 Sessions / Two one-hour sessions you can book right now with no discovery call. Team Diagnostic ($295) for a focused read on where your team stands with AI. Individual AI Session ($295) built around your actual workflow. -> disruptionjoe.com/pricing
Caret^ / Open source semantic notation for agent workflows in Markdown. It restores expressivity to prompts: volume, timbre, tone, and scalar directives instead of piles of scaffolding. Practical, inspectable, and built with real engineering discipline. Across our sample set, prompt length was reduced by 95.8% using Caret notation.
CapacityOS / A fourth-generation personal agent harness I use daily. Cadence-driven orchestration, structured human-agent handoff, and dashboard-first steering keep real work moving without losing control.
AI Activations Playbook / The facilitation methodology underneath my team sessions. Structured arcs, plays, and moves designed for AI adoption contexts.
I am not advising on agent systems from the outside. I am living inside them.
- Designed fraud detection systems and human-in-the-loop ML pipelines before ChatGPT existed
- Helped shape $50M+ in public-goods funding experiments with detection work that prevented roughly $3M in fraud
- Launched or operated 8 companies, advised 100+ startups
- Designed agent marketplace standards before most people first heard the word "agent"
- Created Caret^ and built CapacityOS as daily-use tools, not demos
- Pressure-tested design thinking and facilitation techniques across product design, leadership syncs, and governance decisions
For detailed career history, see RESUME.md. For deep expertise areas with evidence, see SKILLS-AND-EXPERIENCE.md.
| File | What It Is |
|---|---|
| SERVICES.md | Service offerings and pricing |
| RESUME.md | Professional background, compact and scannable |
| WORKING-WITH-JOE.md | Working style, communication, how to get the best out of me |
| SKILLS-AND-EXPERIENCE.md | Deep expertise areas with relevant experience and evidence |
| AGENT.md | Instructions for AI agents reading this repo |
| writing/ | Curated writing samples with context |
Teams or consulting: disruptionjoe.com/teams Individual sessions: disruptionjoe.com/people Caret^ contributions: See the repo's contributing guide Direct: joe@disruptionjoe.com . @DisruptionJoe . LinkedIn
Proof of work over proof of content.