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Navigator / An ongoing monthly partnership

Get help putting AI to work.

Navigator is an ongoing monthly partnership with Alek. We help your team learn to use AI and put it to work on the tasks that keep getting stuck.

That can mean training staff, building workflows and tools, or creating shared AI skills and a company second brain. We choose the work together, around what your business needs.

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An aircraft following a route beyond fog One aircraft follows a gently curving route past a fog bank, with an open path ahead.

Putting AI to work

You're being asked to choose between Claude and ChatGPT before you've worked out what either should do for the business. Another demo or confident post gives you more advice, but little help putting it into practice.

Staff get accounts and a suggestion to try AI. Some worry about what it means for their jobs. Others want to experiment but need someone to show them where to start and how to check the result.

A useful prompt stays in one person's chat. Someone else builds a skill or tests a workflow, but the instructions and company knowledge never reach the rest of the team. The next person starts from scratch.

You still have to decide what to trust, how to start, and how to share what works. It's hard to judge the advice when you can't see whether the person giving it uses the workflows they sell.

From scattered experiments to shared practice

Scattered effort

  • Tool choices
  • Private prompts
  • Unshared experiments
  • Scattered knowledge
Isolated AI experiments become a shared way of working Four separate traces meet one route with three waypoints: choose one job, practise together, and keep what works. A plane follows the route forward.
  1. 1Choose one job
  2. 2Practise together
  3. 3Keep what works

Choose one useful job, practise it with your team, and keep the instructions and knowledge where others can use them.

What we can work on

We agree which of these needs attention first and what work to take on.

Train staff on real work
Help people choose a useful task, give AI the right context, and check its work. Practise together on work your team already does.
Build workflows and tools
Create tools and repeatable workflows for agreed tasks, with clear instructions and someone responsible for checking the results.
Create shared AI skills
Turn useful prompts and instructions into repeatable AI skills, with examples the team can check, reuse and improve.
Build a company second brain
Organize decisions, processes and supporting records so people can find the context they need and keep it current.
Make operations smoother
Work on recurring admin and handoffs, with a clear next owner and review before anyone relies on the result.

If your team has to check several places for an update, When Status Lives in Five Places offers questions about where status belongs, who updates it and how work moves to the next person.

Every company needs a different route

We choose the work around your priorities, people and existing tools. These are possible starting points; we agree the work together.

Shared working knowledge
A company second brain for decisions and records, with shared AI skills and instructions the team can maintain.
Proposals and recurring admin
Proposal and process support, inbox triage and routine record updates with review.
Events, marketing and databases
Clearer event responsibilities and status, usable content and customer records, and help preparing communications.
AI where the team works
Explore an assistant in the Signal messaging app or another chat platform when the access, platform and work make sense.
Safer work with developers
Code review, clear handoffs and a system for checking proposed changes before release.

How we work together

Navigator is an ongoing monthly partnership. We choose a priority, work through the change with your team, and review what is useful. Alek takes on selected implementation where it helps the agreed work move forward. Your team brings the business knowledge and stays involved as the systems take shape.

Alek Mlynek / Founder, SwiftRoot

Inside SwiftRoot, my email assistant shows me what needs my attention, so I spend less time reopening the inbox.

When I build AI agents, I define the job, what they can access or change, and how their work gets reviewed. I've also built agents that collected noise, so I check whether the work is useful.

How I approach AI workers

Choose the help you need

  • Flight Plan

    Flight Plan helps you investigate the problem and choose what to change.

  • Navigator

    Navigator is ongoing help putting the agreed changes into practice with your team.

  • ACE

    ACE is AI Coaching for Entrepreneurs. Learn to use and build with AI through your own business work.

You can start with the kind of help you need.

Where do we start? Do we need to choose Claude or ChatGPT first?

Start with one task your team needs help with and what a useful result would look like. We choose the work around your priorities, people and existing tools. The choice between Claude and ChatGPT can follow once we know what you need the tool to do.

For a way to narrow the list, The 10 Minute Workflow Pick walks through comparing recurring work by impact, frequency and frustration, then naming its trigger, output and owner.

What if staff are worried about AI or unsure how to use it?

Bring those concerns into the work. We help people practise on tasks they already do, give AI useful context and check its output. Your team brings the business knowledge and stays involved as we work through the change.

What happens after Flight Plan?

Flight Plan helps you investigate the problem and choose what to change. You can put the plan into practice with your own team, another provider or SwiftRoot. Navigator offers ongoing help with your team through separately agreed work. You can also come directly to Navigator when you know where you need help.

Is Navigator training, implementation or software development?

Navigator is an ongoing monthly partnership to put AI to work with your team. The agreed work can involve staff training, workflows and tools, shared AI skills or company knowledge. Alek takes on selected implementation while your team stays involved. Any software we build needs to fit the work we agree together.

How do we handle security, access and human review?

Start by defining the job, what information it needs, what it can access or change, and who checks the result before anyone relies on it. Use redacted examples where possible, and keep passwords and unrestricted system access out of an initial inquiry. The access and review needed depend on the agreed work.

Is every example on this page included?

These are possible starting points. We choose the work around your priorities, people and existing tools, and agree what to take on. The examples help you describe what you need; they are not a fixed package of deliverables.

Navigator

Tell Alek what your team is carrying, what you've tried, and what you'd like to make easier.

Talk to Alek about Navigator