Augment Your Thinking. Stay human.

Responsible, thoughtful, human-centered AI adoption consulting.

Bring me one problem, bottleneck or friction point in your work.
In 55 minutes, you'll know what AI can do for you and the next step worth taking.

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Advising clients across three continents for over 15 years

Jacqueline has advised entrepreneurs, leaders and multimillion-dollar companies across the USA, UK and South Africa.
Her work has been recognized by Marie Forleo, Ramit Sethi and Mark Manson.

Thoughtful AI adoption = Augmented Intelligence.

The Brave Advisory helps you explore what AI can expand without losing the human capacities that still matter: judgment, agency, responsibility, creativity, relationship and meaning.

The opportunity

AI is changing what an individual, team or organization can think through, create, coordinate and accomplish. The opportunity is not simply to automate more. It is to use these new capabilities intelligently — to see possibilities you could not see before, reduce unnecessary work, solve problems differently and turn ideas into useful reality.

Expand your capacity.
Stay human.

01What Becomes Possible?

AI can chat with you, write your emails, and turn a two-hour meeting into a plan before you're back from your break. That's not the most interesting part.

The real question: what becomes possible when it's applied to how you actually think, work and create?

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A knowledge system that helps you find and use what your organization already knows.

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A better way to interrogate a difficult problem before committing significant time or money.

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A way of transforming your expertise into something other people can explore, understand and use.

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A website or digital experience that would previously have required a much larger team or budget.

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A dashboard that turns scattered information into something you can actually act on.

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A workflow that removes repeated administrative friction.

Or it may mean discovering that something should not be automated yet, or at all. The point is not AI for AI's sake.

The point is expanding what is possible while remaining thoughtful about what we build, why we build it and what should remain human.

02Work With Me

Start with an Augmented Thinking Session

Bring me one problem, possibility, project, workflow or area of friction. You do not need to know which AI tool you need. You do not even need to know whether AI is the answer. We start with the situation. Before jumping to quick fixes or solutions.

Together we look at what you're trying to accomplish, what's getting in the way, what you already have, what AI now lets you do differently — and where human judgment and relationship need to stay central.

What we work through
What are you actually trying to achieve?
Where is time, energy or knowledge being lost?
What becomes possible now that previously wasn't practical?
What could AI augment rather than merely automate?
What complexity or risk might a proposed solution create?
What should remain distinctly human?
What is the smallest useful thing worth trying next?

You leave with clarity.

Afterwards I send you a concise written synthesis: what we covered, the opportunities and tensions I noticed, and the few next moves that deserve your attention. Not a fifty-page consulting report. Something you can act on this week.

Then we decide what's next.

If something worth building surfaces, we decide together what that looks like — a tightly scoped project with me, a prototype, a dashboard or knowledge experience, or the right technical specialist. Often the most valuable outcome is simply knowing what's worth doing, and what isn't.

This is for you if
  • You're carrying a problem that's bigger than the time you have for it
  • You suspect AI could help but every answer you find is either hype or jargon
  • You care about doing this well, not just doing it fast
  • You'd rather be shown what's possible than sold a tool
This probably isn't for you if
  • You want someone to build and ship the implementation for you
  • You've already decided what to build and just need it done
  • You're looking for the cheapest way to automate headcount away
The session at a glance
You bring
One challengeA problem, bottleneck, project friction or AI-related decision. No prep required.
Format
55 minutesOnline, one to one. Recorded if you want it.
You receive
A written synthesisWithin one working day of our session. Opportunities, risks, recommendations.
Investment
Under $200One flat fee. Nothing further unless you want it.
Commitment
Single callNo retainer, no package. We decide together if there's more.
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Amplify your skills.
Stay human.

03About Jacqueline
Jacqueline

I am fascinated by what becomes possible when human intelligence thoughtfully engages with the capabilities of "artificial intelligence." I call this Augmented Intelligence.

The work behind it

After a decade working with multi-million dollar companies and visionary entrepreneurs around the world as a marketing consultant, marketing director, and creative director — guiding leaders, campaigns, and marketing activities, directing creative projects, and working alongside teams — I now direct AI to do what was previously impossible. I work with teams, leaders, and visionaries to show them what becomes possible when AI is applied with intention: staying aligned with your voice and mission, augmenting your impact, and never losing what makes the work — and you — human.

I use AI extensively in my own work — to research, think, synthesize, organize knowledge, manage a Second Brain and custom Regenerative AI Operating System, develop ideas, create websites, build systems and turn things that once lived only in my imagination into tangible reality.

And I keep the most meaningful parts of the process for myself. My poetry, my songwriting, the work that brings me the most pleasure — I don't let AI touch it. That's deliberate: the joy, the meaning, the dopamine and the growth come from doing that work myself.

The question I actually ask

That lived experimentation has changed the question I ask about AI. I am less interested in "What can this tool do?"
I am more interested in: what can this help a human being or organization become capable of doing?

How I work

My background crosses strategy, marketing, creative direction, facilitation, teaching, research and systems thinking. My formal education is in Psychology and History. I enter complicated situations, listen closely, connect things that have been sitting in separate boxes, notice what's missing, and turn that understanding into something useful.

What this is, and isn't

I'm not an AI engineer, and this isn't an implementation agency. I work a layer above that: intention, possibility, judgment, systems and consequences. Sometimes the answer is technology. Sometimes it's redesigning how information is organised. And sometimes good judgment means deciding not to automate something simply because we can.

My interest is in augmented intelligence, not the "augmented human" — expanding our ability to think, understand and create while keeping our agency, responsibility and relationships intact.

Used with intention, AI lets us take on more of the problems that actually matter — and solve them faster than we could alone.

04Praise

What can happen in one conversation?

For over a decade, I've applied this same thinking, strategy and judgment to business consulting and marketing and creative direction.
Now, I direct AI—and teach others to do the same.

Carolynn Ananian Entrepreneur, USA

Jacqueline got right to the heart of my biggest business problem — which was giving me nightmares — and gave me a solution in one phone call. She knows how to cut through the noise and save you so much time and headaches. I consider her part of my core team, along with my accountant.

Jacqueline's pitch was the best hands down — above and beyond what everyone else did, which is why I chose her. If you want to see what it takes to get a busy person's attention, study her pitch with a fine tooth comb.

Ramit Sethi
NYT Bestselling Author & Entrepreneur

During a massive product launch, she suggested one action — that required little effort on my part — that brought in almost $20k extra revenue.

Jason Zook
Serial Entrepreneur & TEDx Speaker, USA

Jacqueline has single-handedly increased my vision and confidence, leading directly to savings of thousands of dollars within the first few months. Her ability to inspire the daily grind of self-improvement has opened more doors than I thought imaginable.

Heath Armstrong
Podcaster & Online Entrepreneur, USA

Jacqueline zoned right in on three major areas for improvement and new revenue streams, with fantastic, concrete suggestions and action steps that I could actually take.

Sarah Van Loon
Systems Consultant & Bookkeeper, USA

Jacqueline can make the difference between being stuck for two months or two days — and that difference matters a lot. If you're a top performer chasing big things, she's one of those people you want by your side.

Primoz Bozic
Entrepreneur & Consultant, Slovenia

Jacqueline came to our session already having researched our company and created several optional plans. Instead of feeling intimidated, I felt excited, confident and ready to take action.

Cara Hollenbeck
General Manager, USA

Working with Jacqueline helped me accelerate in ways I didn't realize before. The difference between where I was before and where I am now is night and day — the thought and organization she puts into her work is impressive.

Naveen Dittakavi
Software Entrepreneur & Business Advisor, USA

Jacqueline is a phenomenal marketing strategist and content marketer. When you hire her you can expect creativity and a passion for the work. She uses her background in Psychology to significant advantage — you are truly dealing with a top performer.

Michael Mercer
Creative Director & Entrepreneur, USA

These come from a decade of thinking, strategy and consulting — directing people in marketing and creative direction. The judgment is the same; now I direct AI, and show others how to as well.

05AI & Me

Thinking publicly about what it means to live and work with AI

AI & Me is where I explore the larger questions underneath the practical work.

I don't pretend to have final answers. I am documenting what I notice as I work closely with these systems, build my own AI-assisted operating environment and watch this technology change what it means to think, work, create and decide.

Explore AI & Me
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What happens to human agency when machines can produce extraordinary amounts of output?
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What remains our responsibility when AI helps create something?
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What happens when productivity expands faster than our ability to integrate it?
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How do we build a healthy relationship with technology without pretending technology is human?
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What should we automate — and what might we deeply regret losing?
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How might AI be used regeneratively rather than extractively?
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The questions people ask me first

I don't know anything about AI. Is this too early for me?

It's exactly the right time. You don't need to know which tool you want, or whether AI is even the answer. You need to know your own situation — the problem, the friction, the thing that keeps not getting done. I'll bring the knowledge of what's now possible. That's the trade.

Are you going to try to sell me a big implementation project?

No. The session ends with the session and a written synthesis. If something worth building surfaces, we'll talk about it — that might be a scoped project with me, or it might be me pointing you to a technical specialist who's a better fit. Sometimes the honest answer is that you don't need to build anything at all.

What actually happens in the 55 minutes?

We start with your situation, not with technology. What are you trying to achieve, where is time and knowledge leaking, what do you already have. Then we look at what's newly possible — and, just as importantly, where human judgment and relationship need to stay central.

You don't need to prepare anything. Come with the thing that's on your mind.

Is this for individuals or organisations?

Both. I work with founders and independent professionals on their own thinking and capacity, and with leadership teams on how their organisation captures knowledge, makes decisions and gets work done. The session format is the same; the scope of the problem differs.

Do you have any formal AI training, or is this just experience?

Both. Alongside daily hands-on use, I completed OutSkill's 3-Day Generative AI Bootcamp — you can view my certificate here.

But formal training is only part of the picture. The real qualification is a decade of judgment work — cutting through noise, finding the real problem — applied daily to AI since it became genuinely useful.

Your testimonials are about marketing, not AI. Why should I trust you on this?

A fair question, and I'd rather answer it than hide it. Those testimonials are about my thinking, strategy and consulting — I was directing people in marketing and creative direction. The recurring theme in them is judgment: cutting through noise, finding the real problem, knowing what's worth doing.

That's the same faculty this work runs on. What's changed is what I now direct: I direct AI daily to research, synthesize, organise knowledge, build systems and ship things that used to need a whole team — and I show others how to direct it too.

What does "recognized by Marie Forleo, Mark Manson and Ramit Sethi" mean?

In 2012, I was selected from nearly 400 entries as one of 10 winners of a full Marie Forleo B-School scholarship.

In 2015, I won Ramit Sethi's $1,000 Pitch Contest. "Jacqueline's pitch was the best, hands down," Ramit wrote. "She built a website and took the time to write a mouth-watering pitch. Sold." He highlighted my "show, don't tell" approach and the fun execution as key reasons the pitch stood out.

In 2019, I was one of 16 applicants selected from more than 300 to advance to the second phase of Mark Manson's hiring process. In his private correspondence with me, he described my application as "incredibly impressive."

These moments reflect a pattern that has shaped my work for more than a decade: understanding what matters, seeing possibilities others may miss, and turning insight into something clear, compelling and useful.

"Jacqueline's pitch was the best, hands down. She built a website and took the time to write a mouth-watering pitch. Sold."

Ramit Sethi
New York Times Bestselling Author & Host of Netflix's How to Get Rich