Thomas Zinn

Work with me

Reasons to reach out.

People write to me for a lot of reasons, and only some of them are “hire me for a project.” Here are the main ones. If yours is not on the list, that is fine too.

Build something

The concrete work. Fixed-scope and outcome-first, and it always starts with a conversation, not a quote.

AI Workshops for Business

The problem

Everyone keeps telling your team to "use AI," but it has never turned into anything that saves a real hour. It feels like hype with no handle.

How I help

I sit down with your team and build something real in one working session: a brand-safe assistant or a workflow that removes a task you repeat every week. No slides, a tool your people can use the moment I leave.

What you get

  • A custom assistant in your brand voice
  • Email and proposal drafts that sound like you
  • Meeting notes turned into decisions and next steps
  • An FAQ and knowledge helper your team can extend
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AI Immersion & CustomGPT

The problem

You want a CustomGPT that fits how you actually work, not a generic chatbot, but you do not have time to wrestle with the setup and prompt tuning.

How I help

We start with a free 15-minute fit call, then build your CustomGPT together in a focused session, tuned to the tasks that eat your week. You leave with a working tool and support while it settles in.

What you get

  • A functional CustomGPT tailored to your workflow
  • Three ready-to-use prompts for priority tasks
  • A recording of the build session
  • Thirty days of email support
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Everything Cloud

The problem

Your AWS bill keeps climbing, or you are not sure your setup is secure and compliant, and every answer you find online contradicts the last one.

How I help

A decade of hands-on AWS. I review what you have, find what is quietly costing you money or leaving you exposed, and hand you a concrete plan in plain language. I can do the work too, not just point at it.

What you get

  • Architecture and setup that holds up
  • A security and compliance review
  • Real cost optimization
  • Your team enabled to keep it running
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Program & Project Management

The problem

A critical program is slipping and nobody can say exactly why, or you need senior program muscle without hiring a full-time executive to get it.

How I help

PMP-certified, more than a thousand projects delivered. I trace the failure back to its process root, stabilize the program, and put predictability back where there was chaos. Or I run the whole thing for you.

What you get

  • Project rescue and recovery
  • Process design and documentation
  • Team and vendor management
  • Compliance-ready reporting
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Think something through

Sometimes what you need is not a build. It is a sharper mind on the other side of the table.

The honest mirror

You have blind spots in how you think and in who you are, and most people spend a lifetime guarding them. Bring yours. I will find them, name them kindly but without flinching, and push until you want to look. People leave these sharper, not smaller: clearer on where they were fooling themselves, and far surer of what they actually believe.

Stress-test it

Bring a belief, a decision, a plan, or an argument you care about. I will try to break it, hard and in good faith, so that whatever survives is something you can stand on.

Find the structure underneath

The move behind everything I write, pointed at your tangle instead of mine: the one thing under the many problems, the pattern hiding under the noise. Most knots are simpler than they look once you find the thread.

Build a life from nothing

I grew up with nothing and used technology to climb out. If that is the road you are on, I am glad to talk.

From nothing

If you are trying to build something from a hard place, I will be honest with you about what actually moved the needle and what was just noise, without the motivational gloss.

Founder and operator

I have scaled a team from four people to more than thirty, worked where compliance was not optional, and shipped past a thousand projects. If you are building or running something and want someone who has done the unglamorous parts, reach out.

Reach further, or make something together

Not everything is a project. Some of the best conversations never were.

Collaborate

If something here sparks an idea, or you are working on a framework of your own and want a thinking partner, let us build on it together.

Speaking and interviews

AI, freedom, the frameworks, or the climb from nothing. If you have an audience that would find one of those useful, I am glad to come talk.

It just landed

Maybe you read something here and it resonated, and there is no neat category for why you want to reach out. That is reason enough. The door is open.

Whatever brought you here, tell me what is on your mind and I'll answer honestly.

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