Build Your Command Center
You are the one who remembers the renewal, the refill, the form that was due Friday. You hold a dozen worlds in your head and most of them have no system behind them. This is three sessions of building one, with AI doing the parts that should never have been yours to remember.
This is for you if
- You are the default operator for your household, your parents, your calendar and everyone else's
- You have tried ChatGPT or Claude, got something useful once, and could not repeat it
- You want your personal life organized, not a work productivity course
- You are careful about what you hand a tech company, and you want to stay that way
What this is not
A webinar you watch. Every session has you building in your own account, with help on screen. There is homework, and the homework is the product.
Every lesson is tied to a live demo or to something you do yourself, so the concepts land instead of sliding past.
What you build
By the end of Session 3 you have a command center that holds your whole life in three files.
Ledger
What you carry and where it lives. The reference you reach for when you are standing in a parking lot trying to remember who to call.
Open Items
The moving parts. One line per item, each with a date. This is the list currently living in your head, three apps and a notebook.
Inbox-Drop
The intake. You drop, you never file. It gets sorted when you ask. This is the one that survives a bad week, which is why the rest of it lasts.
The three sessions
Foundations, privacy and your inventory
What it is doing with your words, settings changed live on your own device, and the permission ladder that decides what you let it do. You leave with your tools set up correctly and a written list of everything you carry.
From list to structure
Your buckets become a real Project, loaded with your own files, inside the lines you set. You leave with a working command center, built in about twenty minutes once you know what you are building.
Making it run, and what stays human
One routine that runs without you, the habit of checking before you trust, and a one-page guide to what you will never delegate. You leave with something that still works in December.
Optional office hours on Oct 22 and Nov 5 for anything that will not cooperate. A 60-minute reflection on Jan 7 to look at what worked after two months of real use.
Why you, why now
A 2026 behavioral study by Corrix scored 888 people on how well they actually worked with AI. Women outscored men on all fifteen measures, and the biggest driver was challenge behavior: questioning the answer instead of accepting it.
In that same study, the women scored higher and rated their own ability lower.
The hesitation you have been reading as “I am not good at this” is the exact instinct that makes people good at this.
Your instructor
Kate Macartney is the founder of MVM Strategies, an AI adoption consultancy for small and mid-sized businesses. Twenty years in business consulting and change management, with clients including Microsoft, Liberty Mutual and Moss Adams. She built this command center for her own life first, running a company, a household and her father's affairs, and broke it several times before it worked. What you get is the version that already survived a bad week.
Questions people ask
- Is my private information safe?
- You draw that line in Session 1, before you load anything. You decide what AI can read, what it can organize, and what it can act on, bucket by bucket. We teach you to hand over a summary rather than the raw record, so account numbers, diagnoses and passwords stay out. You also change your own privacy settings live in the first session.
- Do I need to be technical?
- No. If you can use email, you can do this. You build in your own account with help on screen, and there are optional office hours for anything that will not cooperate.
- Claude or ChatGPT?
- Either. The course works in both and we teach the shape, not the click path. Session 1 helps you pick, and you stay in your choice through December.
- Do I need a paid account?
- A personal account is enough for most people. If you hold other people's confidential information, you may want a business tier, and Session 1 walks you through four questions that settle it.
- What if I miss a session?
- Come to office hours and we will catch you up. The homework between sessions is designed so you can work at your own pace, and the materials stay yours.
- Is this for my business or my home life?
- Home life. The renewals, the elder care, the school forms, the properties, the appointments. Many women find it changes how they work too, but that is a side effect, not the point.
- How much time does it take between sessions?
- About an hour of homework after Session 1, then using it in your real life for two weeks.
- How do I register?
- This series is offered in partnership with Ladies Who Lunch, and registration and payment run through their site. Click Claim your seat to register and pay on the Ladies Who Lunch site.
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Thirty minutes on Teams. See a working command center, get the dates and prep, and ask anything before you enroll.
- Thu Oct 1, 12:00 to 12:30 PT
- Wed Oct 7, 12:00 to 12:30 PT
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Command Center Preview
Twenty-five seats, and we start Oct 15
Three sessions, Thursdays 12:00 to 1:30 PT, on Oct 15, Oct 29 and Nov 12. All online. Optional office hours Oct 22 and Nov 5. Reflection session Jan 7. Pre-work is ten minutes.