I'm Doug Collins. Big Five consulting manager, then founder of two SaaS companies and a product leader who ships. I speak business and I speak technology, and I help people who live in one world get real value out of the other.
A practical Claude Cowork workshop. Most professionals are talking about AI; few are using it in a way that changes how they work. This closes that gap, live, with your industry's examples, and no technical background required.
Not a plan to set one up later. Every concept is demonstrated live using the attendees' actual workflows, their work, not generic templates.
Move from one-off prompting to a Claude setup that remembers your role and clients, outputs documents to your standard every time, and runs multi-step research and writing on its own.
Participants take the wheel: their own configuration, their own tools, their own real work, with guidance in the room while they do it.
Delivered on consecutive days or 1-2 weeks apart. The gap is valuable, since people arrive at Day 2 with real questions from their own attempts. Prerequisite: a paid Claude plan.
Bring this to my teamScoped engagements with something real at the end of them.
The Claude Cowork workshop, delivered to your team. Two sessions that take a room of non-technical professionals from talking about AI to running a configured system.
Where AI genuinely belongs in your product and your process, from someone who has owned the roadmap, not just read about it.
For leaders who need to be genuinely fluent, quickly. Working sessions built around your real files and real decisions.
"The gap between what a business needs and what technology can actually do is where most AI projects quietly die. I've spent my career standing in that gap."
I started at Arthur Andersen as a manager in Strategic Information Technology Services, working with executives to make IT serve the business instead of hindering it. Then I went and built the software myself, founding AppealTrack, a SaaS platform for property tax professionals, and later ProductLight, a tool that strips bias out of feature prioritization.
Since then I've led product at venture-backed companies as VP of Product and Head of Product, taking platforms from MVP to enterprise-grade and aligning engineering, design, sales and customer success around the same goal. BS in Computer Science, cum laude, Indiana State.
That combination is the point. I can talk margin with your CFO, architecture with your engineers, and translate honestly in both directions.
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Based in Indianapolis, working with teams anywhere.