About me
I teach AI to people who are not technical
You arrive with a laptop, no coding experience, and a problem that has been eating your week. By one o'clock you have built something that actually runs, and you know how to build the next one without me. Six people at a time, in my front room on Portobello Road.
Who I am
I am Sarah. I am Principal Product Manager for AI at Centric Software, and founder and CEO of Track and Thrive, an AI health platform now in beta in the UK and the US.
I have never written a line of production code.
Track and Thrive has real users and real error logs, and I built every part of it. Not being an engineer is where I started. It is not where this stops.
What I actually have running
Not what AI can theoretically do. What is running in my own accounts this week, all of it built by someone who cannot code.
An agent that relearns my writing every Friday. It reads everything I sent that week, so my drafts sound more like me over time instead of less.
Hourly inbox triage. It sorts, moves the junk to junk, and drafts the replies that need one. Nothing sends without me.
A weekly investor hunt. It finds them, ranks them for fit, argues both sides of each one, and hands me the application link. Claude in Chrome then fills the form in. I attach the deck.
Claude wrote and designed that pitch deck. Not a template. The actual deck I raise on.
A daily brief on my competitors' posts. Which ones are worth commenting on, with the comment already drafted. Ten minutes, not an hour of scrolling.
Track and Thrive is vibe coded from scratch. Agents review every line before it ships, and twice a day I get a summary of the errors real users hit, with a suggested fix waiting for me to approve.
What that means for your week
None of that is exotic. Every one of them started as something I was doing badly by hand on a Tuesday.
The same is true of whatever is eating your week. The report nobody reads but somebody has to write. The inbox. The client updates. The research you keep meaning to do. The thing you have quietly been doing manually for two years because it felt too small to bother fixing.
You do not need to know what an API is. You need one morning, one real problem, and somebody sitting next to you who has already made the mistakes.
How far this goes
Most people arrive already using AI. Usually that means chat: asking it things, pasting the answers back out. That is a perfectly reasonable place to start and it is nowhere near the ceiling.
A first morning moves you from chatting to building. You leave with one working thing.
After that it gets more interesting. Putting what you built live on the internet with its own address. Chaining steps so it runs on a schedule without you. Giving it real access to your inbox, your calendar, your files. Agents that check each other's work before anything happens.
That is what the follow up sessions and the 1:1s are for. Nobody comes once and is finished.
Why my home, and why mornings
Sessions run in the first floor room of my house on Portobello Road. Three metre ceilings, velvet sofas, big windows over the road. Six people, one big table, good coffee, always.
I could hire a room. I do not, because the difference matters. This is not a desk you booked. It is being invited into a friend's home, and people ask better questions in a friend's home. People admit they are lost at a kitchen table. They rarely do it in a conference room.
Mornings, because you think more clearly before lunch, and because you get your afternoon back.
Who this is for
- You are not technical and you are tired of reading about AI instead of using it. You will not be behind. The mornings are built for people at exactly that stage, deliberately, so nobody is showing off in the corner.
- You already use AI and you have hit the edge of what chat can do for you. This is the step past it.
- You are between roles, or changing direction. Being able to show something you built with AI, and explain how you built it, changes an interview. You do not have to be in a job to get value out of a morning.
- You are technical, and you would rather spend two hours on your own commercial problem than a beginners' morning. That is the 1:1, and it is a different conversation at a different price.
Who this is not for
It is not for you if you want a lecture, a certificate, or a strategy deck. I am not going to talk at you about the future of work.
And if your goal is to become a software engineer, I am the wrong person. What I teach is AI to people who want to be better at the work they do, whether that is the job you are already in, the one you are trying to get, or the business you are building.
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