Private AI coaching for people who don't have time to figure it out themselves.
The Practicum is a private coaching practice for founders, investors, and executive leaders navigating the AI moment. Working directly with Chanel, clients move from confusion to clarity — about what AI actually is, how to use it inside their organizations, and what it means for the decisions they are making right now.
This is not a course. There are no slides, no cohorts, no frameworks to memorize. Every engagement is built around your specific context, your specific questions, and the specific decisions in front of you. The work is rigorous, the conversation is candid, and the relationship is entirely private.
You're a Head of Product, a founding PM, or a staff engineer moving into a leadership role. You can see exactly where AI should change how your team works. What's missing is the time and the right conversation to actually get there.
You're a Chief of Staff or Head of Operations at a company where someone above you has made a bet on AI. Translating that bet into actual processes, priorities, and outcomes has landed on you — without a clear explanation of where to start.
You're a VP of Engineering, a Growth Lead, or a technical leader who has played with the tools and knows the potential is real. Using them well, at the level your role actually demands, is a different kind of problem.
You're surrounded by people asking the same questions quietly. What you actually need isn't another course — it's someone who can look at your specific work, your specific gaps, and tell you exactly what to do.
Should you be using RAG or agents? Which AI tools are actually worth your time? How do you get your team to adopt AI without creating more work? Bring the problem you're trying to solve. We'll work through it together, and you'll leave with a concrete plan for what to do next.
Four weeks of one-on-one coaching built around your goals. Unlike a traditional course, there isn't a fixed curriculum. We'll cover the concepts that matter — from context engineering and custom LLMs to vibe coding, AI agents, memory, and security — but always through projects that are directly relevant to your work.
By the end, you won't just understand the technology. You'll know how to use it confidently in your day-to-day work, with systems you've built yourself.
Need more than four weeks? After the Bootcamp we can talk about what comes next.
Fifteen minutes, no commitment. Bring a question, a decision, or just a sense that something is shifting and you want to understand it better. If there's a fit, Chanel will follow up directly.
Schedule a CallChanel is a Brown CS graduate who spent nearly five years as a Senior Software Engineer at Meta — building across Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Threads — before walking into a classroom and realizing that teaching was the hardest and most important thing she'd ever done.
She now teaches AI and computer science at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia, scouts venture deals for Laconia Capital, NDVC, and The Council, and received a full scholarship to VC University where she had the opportunity to work closely with Mac Conwell of RareBreed Ventures. She continues to build and ship her own software in her spare time. She is not a consultant who stopped building. She is a builder who knows how to explain things.
The Practicum exists because the people who most need to understand AI are often the least likely to admit it — and the most capable of doing something extraordinary once they do.