I help owners whose staff use AI unevenly, or not at all, get the whole team doing good work with it. I'm Daniel Condell, an AI Strategist and the founder of DGC Strategy. We start with one real problem in your business, and then I train and coach your team to fix it, using their own tasks.
I work with owners and their teams across the country.
Picture an office where AI showed up without a plan. One person drafts emails with ChatGPT. Another won't open it. A third pastes a client's details into a personal account, because nobody said where the line is.
The answers that come back are often half right and too long. People fix the work by hand, and AI becomes one more thing that costs time.
This is common. In a 2026 Goldman Sachs survey of 1,256 owners in its 10,000 Small Businesses program, 76% said they use AI. Only 14% said it is fully built into their core operations, and 73% said more training and resources would help.
A general AI course covers the tools in the abstract. Your staff still has to work out how those tools fit a normal Tuesday at your business.
I start with the business, not the technology. First you name what you want to be different. That could be fewer repeated questions, or new hires who get up to speed without pulling your best people off their work. It could be one weekly task that eats hours. The training then happens on that work, with your files and your standards.
Because the training aims at one result, you can see whether it changed anything. It also gives the team a reason to stop chasing every new AI tool.
An accounting firm owner told me he felt pulled in all directions, training staff and billing at the same time. He first asked about AI for one task. Discovery turned up a bigger pattern: training new hires kept pulling him and his most experienced people off client work, and what they knew could leave with anyone who quit.
The work moved toward capturing that knowledge in an onboarding and training resource, so new hires can find answers without going back to the owner each time. That project is still in progress, and there are no results to report yet.
Another client put it this way:
"He teaches you how to use AI to amplify who you already are."
Theresa Fette, Founder & CEO, Digital Trust
It fits an owner or leader who can make the call and can name a problem that costs the business time or money. The team also has to be willing to try a new way of working.
Some fields have their own page: AI for CPA firms, AI for dental practices and AI for law firms.
If you'd like a group session for your staff first, see talks and workshops. Every way to work together is on Work with Dan. My background is on About, and my notes on AI tools are on the blog.
Bring the problem your team keeps running into. On a 30-minute call, we talk it through and decide whether it's a fit.
It covers the AI work your staff will do on the problem we pick together. That includes which tool fits which job, how to set AI up so it knows your business, how to ask for what they want, what data stays out, and how to check the results. Each person practices on their own tasks.
It's built around your business. We pick one problem first, then I train and coach your team on that work using their own tasks. If you want a group introduction for your staff instead, a talk or workshop is the better start.
No technical background is needed. Knowing the job well helps more, because that's how a person spots a wrong answer. I explain each step in plain English and change the explanation when it isn't landing.
That gets settled before anyone builds anything. I work inside your privacy rules, and the team learns a plain rule for each kind of information: some never goes in, some gets scrubbed first, and some is safe to use.
Yes. I work with teams online anywhere in the U.S. Teams in Central Louisiana can also meet me in person; see AI training in Louisiana.
It depends on the size of the team and what we build together. I set the scope and the fee with you after the first call, before any work starts.