Jenny Cotie Kangas
Builder Coach

So we just met. What's next?

Hi, I'm Jenny, a fractional forward-deployed engineer. I help you pick the right thing to point AI at, build it, and teach your team to run it.

Hi, I'm Jenny, a fractional forward-deployed engineer. I help you pick the right thing to point AI at, build it, and teach your team to run it.

How I help

Build. Teach. Coach.

Good is subjective to the leader in front of me. The job is not to arrive with a generic version of good. It is to identify yours, and reverse-engineer toward it.

Build · When you're tapped out

You know what AI could do here. You need someone to build it.

You bring the what if. I bring the how. I work as your fractional builder, build the agents, then hand them back to you to run.

Teach · When you want to do it yourself

Learn to do what I do, on your own work.

For individuals and teams. Workshops and talks too: everyone builds their own voice document and first agent in the room.

Ask about a workshop

Coach · Once you're running

Someone in your corner when you hit a wall.

Ongoing working sessions and on-call time, so your AI practice keeps working as the work and the tools change.

Not sure where to start? I shadow you, listen to where the work hurts, then reverse-engineer the agents that help.

I've spoken for S&P Global, EY Parthenon, Ralph Lauren, Criteo and Fragomen, and at HR Tech, UNLEASH, RecFest and TA Tech, for rooms of up to 3,500.

Recent build · CRM build for an events business

53
workflows
233
custom fields
35k
contacts
6
sessions to map

The account had grown faster than anyone could track. The x-ray found two live workflows silently failing on a deleted object. We fixed email deliverability at the DNS level and handed over a blueprint the team now works from with their own AI.

The x-ray found two live workflows silently failing. We fixed email deliverability at the DNS level and handed over a blueprint the team now works from with their own AI.

How a systems project runs

  1. 1
    The x-ray

    Your system gets read while you watch. Nothing touched.

  2. 2
    The health check

    What's quietly broken, and what good should look like, written down.

  3. 3
    The changes

    One at a time, a plan before and a check after, built inside the work you already do.

  4. 4
    Handed over

    You own the record and you run it. I'm not a dependency.

Get it right

You shouldn't have to lose your memory to learn this.

In 2020 a head injury erased my memory, and my design bias went with it. I had to rebuild my version of good on purpose.

AI has the same problem. Without yours, it guesses the average of everyone's. These two start there.

Free, no email required. Use them on your own, or bring what you make and we'll build on it.

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For anyone using AI at work · A few hours, done right

The Two Prompts

Two interviews your AI runs with you. You come out with a document that captures how you sound and one that captures how you work, so it stops guessing.

Teach your AI how you sound and how you work, so it stops guessing.

Get the two prompts

For job seekers · 7 steps

The Builder's Job Search Playbook

How I'd use AI to run a whole job search, not just polish a resume. Figure out what you want, then let an agent bring you matching roles every morning.

Use AI to run the whole search, with an agent that brings you matching roles every morning.

Read the playbook

Really glad we met. If one of these helps, tell me. I love hearing what people build with them.

With appreciation,
JCK

Book a 30-min intro 30 minutes, Tuesdays and Thursdays. We'll figure out if I can help.