Personal AI Setup · by JJ Resnick
A private, twelve-month engagement for people who know AI could take real weight off their week, and haven’t had the time to make it work. I learn how your work, household and family actually run, set AI up around them, then coach you one-on-one until it’s second nature.
Less to keep track of. Faster answers. More of your week for the things only you can do.
In person across Marin, Napa and Sonoma · By video anywhere in the U.S.
Personal AI Blueprint
Sample
Five routines, built around one real week.
Setup
Four hours, in person or by video
Then
Twelve monthly sessions with me
Personal
Built around how your week actually runs. No templates.
Hands-on
I do the setup with you, in person or by video.
A full year
Twelve one-on-one sessions, so it lasts past setup day.
Yours
Your accounts, your files, your decisions.
The real problem
The people I work with are good at what they do: business owners, executives, professionals, busy parents. They aren’t short on technology. They’re short on the hours it takes to make it all work together.
The bill that came Tuesday is on the counter, and in the back of your mind until it’s paid.
The insurance policy, the warranty, the tax letter. You know you have it. Somewhere.
You’ve tried ChatGPT. It was impressive for ten minutes, and then it wasn’t part of anything.
The school calendar, the game schedule and your work calendar have never once agreed.
An AI subscription is like a beautiful kitchen. It doesn’t make dinner.
What changes
Choose one area, or combine all three. Each example is the kind of routine I set up and teach.
Home
The bill on the counter
Before: Opened, set aside, remembered at 11 p.m.
After setup: Photograph it and AI reads the payee, amount and due date. You check it, add it to your bill list and set a reminder. About two minutes, and you still approve every payment.
“Where’s the policy?”
Before: Twenty minutes in drawers and inboxes.
After setup: Important papers scanned into one organized folder, named so you can search for them. Open the policy in your AI and ask when it renews; it answers and points to the page.
The household handbook
Before: Only one person knows where everything is.
After setup: One shared reference document: who to call, where things are, what renews when. We keep it current in our monthly sessions.
What you get back Nothing important lives only in your head, or only on the kitchen counter.
Household
Your AI workspace
Read this bill.
Water district · $186.40 · due Nov 12 · account ending 4471. Does that match the paper?
Yes. Format it for my bill list.
Here’s the row: Nov 12 | Water district | $186.40 | not on autopay.
Work
The inbox backlog
Before: Replies written late at night, in your head first.
After setup: Say a few words and get a draft in your voice. You review it, adjust it and send it from your own email.
The 9 a.m. meeting
Before: Skimming the file in the parking lot.
After setup: A one-page brief the night before, built from the documents you choose: who’s in the room, what’s open, what to ask.
The 40-page document
Before: Saved for the weekend.
After setup: A plain-English summary in minutes, with the terms and numbers that matter pulled out for you to check against the original.
What you get back Fewer evenings spent catching up on email and paperwork.
Work
Your AI workspace
SpokenReply to Dave. Thursday works. Ask him to send the lease before then.
Draft: “Hi Dave, Thursday works well. Could you send the lease over beforehand so I can review it? Thanks.”
Make it a little warmer.
“Hi Dave, great, Thursday works for me. Would you mind sending the lease ahead of time so I can give it a proper read? Thanks so much.”
Family
The schedule chaos
Before: Three calendars, none of them right.
After setup: Photograph the school or sports schedule and AI turns it into calendar entries. You check the times, then add them to the shared family calendar.
The family trip
Before: Forty browser tabs and a group text.
After setup: Research, a day-by-day itinerary and a packing list, drafted in an evening and shared with everyone. You still choose and book.
“Who’s driving Thursday?”
Before: Decided by text at 7 a.m.
After setup: A shared weekly plan the whole household can see, with reminders on the phones you already own.
What you get back One version of the schedule that everyone trusts.
Family
Your AI workspace
Turn these games into calendar events.
I found 9 games, Sep 6 to Nov 1. Please check the times below before you add them.
Game 4 moved to 10 a.m.
Updated. Your calendar file is ready, with a 30-minute alert before each game.
The engagement
Setup day is where it starts. The real value comes in the months after, as routines become habits and new needs show up: tax season, a big trip, a new school year.
Week 0
Private consultation
Thirty minutes to see if this is a fit. If it isn’t, I’ll tell you.
Weeks 1–2
Your Blueprint
A short questionnaire and a look at your typical week. You approve a written plan: up to five priorities, the tools and their costs.
Weeks 2–4
Setup day
Four hours together, at your home or office or by video. We set everything up, build your routines and practice them on your real bills, documents and calendar.
One week later
The check-in
Ninety minutes after a week of real use, to fix whatever didn’t feel right.
Months 1–12
Monthly sessions
One hour a month with me. We review what’s working, handle a live task together and add one new skill at a time.
Twelve months, one-on-one
Plus email between sessions and a year-end review
Month 1 Setup, check-in and your first routines
Month 12 Review and an updated handoff
What you receive
Your Personal AI Blueprint
A written plan: your priorities, the tools, what they cost and what’s deliberately left out.
Your AI, set up properly
ChatGPT or Claude in your own account, on your phone and computer: instructions written for you, a workspace for each part of your life, and privacy settings reviewed together.
Up to five working routines
Built around your recurring tasks, tested on your own devices and practiced until you can run them without me.
A reference kit
A plain-English guide for each routine, your ground rules and a one-page quick-start card for the kitchen drawer.
Twelve monthly sessions
One-on-one with me, usually by video. Review, refine and add what’s next as your needs change.
Help between sessions
Email me questions as they come up and I’ll reply within two business days. Guidance, not an on-call service.
Who you’ll work with
I’m JJ Resnick, a founder and operator in Marin County. I’ve spent my career building businesses and the systems behind them, and I build with these AI tools every day. You get one experienced person who understands a full week, not a technician reading from a script.
An operator, not a technician
I’ve built and run businesses. I set up what will actually get used on a busy Tuesday.
Current and hands-on
I build with these tools every day, so you get what works now, not last year’s advice.
Small by design
I keep my client list small, so you deal with me directly from the first call to the last session.
Personal AI Setup is my independent practice. It is not offered, delivered or endorsed by Buildable.
Investment
I publish my fees so you can decide before we talk. No hourly meter and no surprise invoices. What’s included, and what isn’t, is spelled out below.
For one person
$12,500for twelve months
For two adults, one home
$15,000for twelve months
The same engagement, shared by two adults who run a home together.
More than 18 hours with me
One-on-one time across the year, plus the preparation behind every session.
Paid in two parts
Half to begin, half on setup day. In-person travel within Marin, Napa and Sonoma is included.
Not included
Your AI and software subscriptions, paid directly to each provider (often around $20 to $40 a month), and travel beyond the North Bay.
Bigger projects, quoted separately
Digitizing a backlog of paper, connecting financial accounts or custom software. I’ll quote them after seeing what’s involved.
Privacy and control
You own everything
Your accounts, subscriptions, files and materials are yours, during the engagement and after it.
I never hold your passwords
You type your own passwords and recovery codes. I don’t ask for them and I don’t store them.
Nothing sensitive without you
Connecting apps, uploading sensitive documents, buying anything or sending anything happens only with your go-ahead.
Sensible privacy settings
We review your AI provider’s privacy settings together, including turning off model training where the provider allows it, and agree on what never goes into AI: full account numbers, Social Security numbers and passwords.
A person checks the work
AI drafts and organizes; you review and decide. I don’t call anything automatic until it has been tested on your own setup.
Handled with discretion
I keep your information in a private client record, share it with no one, and never use your details as an example without your permission. Your AI and storage providers handle data under their own terms, which we read together.
You could, the same way you could do your own taxes. Most people I talk to have meant to for a year or two. This gets it done properly, around your life, with someone accountable for it still working twelve months from now.
No. If you use a smartphone and email, you have everything you need. I handle the setup, and you learn only what you’ll actually use.
No. We start with what you already have, on the phone and computer you already use, and add only what earns its place.
About 30 minutes of preparation, the four-hour setup session, a 90-minute check-in, then one hour a month.
No, and be wary of anyone who says it will. You photograph a bill, AI reads it and you log it in a couple of minutes. Reminders and your bank’s autopay do the rest, and you approve every payment.
Either. I come to you anywhere in Marin, Napa and Sonoma, or we work by video from anywhere in the U.S. Monthly sessions are usually by video.
Yes. The Household engagement covers two adults in one home, with a shared family routine and monthly sessions either of you can join.
After the consultation, setup usually happens within two to four weeks, depending on both our calendars.
You keep everything and can run it yourself. If you’d like to keep meeting, we can talk about continuing.
No. Personal AI Setup is my independent practice for individuals and households. For AI work across a whole organization, I’ll point you to the right firm.
Next step
Tell me a little about your week. In a 30-minute private consultation, I’ll tell you honestly what I’d set up first, what it would take and whether we’re a good fit. No cost and no pressure.
Send this short form. It takes about two minutes.
I reply personally, usually within one business day, with a few times to talk.
We talk for 30 minutes by phone, by video or over coffee in the North Bay.
Prefer email? jj@jjresnick.com
I’ll reply personally, usually within one business day, with a few times to talk. Nothing is booked yet, and there’s no obligation.
Before we talk, jot down three things you’d most like to stop keeping track of. That’s all the preparation you need.
— JJ