Speaking· Talks for teams
I give private talks to company teams on how AI actually works, how to use it well, and how to put it in front of customers without damaging the relationship. I run a wedding venue and built the AI that runs inside it, so everything I show your team comes from production, with the mistakes left in.
Length
One hour, including Q&A.
Where
Virtual, or in person at your office or offsite.
Before
A short call so the examples fit your business.
Fee
$3,000 plus travel.
Choose a talk
Whole company · Operations · Sales · Marketing · Leadership
A plain-English grounding for teams who are being told to use AI and have not been told how. What AI actually is, why it gets things confidently wrong, when to use it and when a person or a spreadsheet is the better tool, and how to build real skill without becoming technical. No jargon, and nobody made to feel behind.
Leadership · Customer experience · Hospitality · Service businesses
Most AI advice assumes your business is transactional. For businesses where the relationship is the product, that advice backfires. Where AI deepened client relationships at my own venue, where I had to rip it back out, and a way to decide which is which in your business.
Product · Design · Customer support · Brand
For teams putting AI in front of customers. The design work that matters is less about what the AI may say and more about the words it must never use, the moments it has to stop, and when it should hand over to a person. Taken from AI I have built for couples, families of missing people, and people at their lowest.
Engineering · Technical leadership
For engineering teams adopting AI coding tools. How I ship production software with AI writing the code: written rules the AI has to follow, automated checks that catch it when it does not, and an honest account of what still went wrong. Given at DC State of the Stack 2026.
Something else in mind? The full talk catalogue can be given privately too.
Go longer
A talk changes how your team thinks about AI. A workshop changes what they do on Monday. On site, no technical background needed, written for the people who actually use the tools.
$5,000
3 hours· plus travel
The talk, then hands on. Your team works through AI on their own real tasks with me in the room, and leaves with a written one-page guide to when your business uses AI, when it does not, and who checks the output.
$10,000
7 hours· plus travel
Everything in the 3-hour workshop, then the customer-facing side. We go through how your AI or your templates actually speak to customers, and build the rules together: the words it must never use, the moments it hands over to a person, and how it should sound like you. Your team leaves with a working draft they can put in use the next week.
A local charity or a very small business?
Within 60 miles of Culpeper, Virginia, or in DC, the same sessions are about 80% off, and free for LGBTQ+, women’s and homelessness charities.
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“Best talk of the day. The only one I understood.”
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Questions
Isadora Martin-Dye gives private talks to company teams on how AI actually works and how to use it well. She runs Rixey Manor, a wedding venue in Virginia, and built the AI products that run inside it, so the talks come from real use rather than theory. She has spoken at AI Engineer World’s Fair, API World and DC State of the Stack.
No. “AI, Explained for the People Who Have to Use It” is written for people who do not write code. Engineering teams get a different talk.
A one-hour talk for your team is $3,000 plus travel. Workshops are $5,000 for 3 hours or $10,000 for a full day, plus travel. Virtual talks have no travel cost. Book a call or email info@isadoraandco.com with your team size, date and what you want the talk to do.
Yes. A 3-hour workshop ($5,000) adds hands-on work on your team’s real tasks and a written guide to how your business uses AI. A full day of 7 hours ($10,000) also builds the rules for how your AI speaks to customers. Both are on site and need no technical background.
Yes, for local ones. Charities, nonprofits and businesses with fewer than 5 full-time staff within 60 miles of Culpeper, Virginia, or in DC get about 80% off, and some charities pay nothing. Details at isadoraandco.com/community.
Yes. Talks run virtually or in person.
Start with AI Fluent, a free twelve-module course in plain English with no sign-up. Watch the recorded talks. For teams ready to change how they work, there is a 3-hour or full-day workshop.
Tell me about your team.
Who will be in the room, roughly when, and what you want them to leave able to do. I reply personally.