I'm a management consultant. JD/MBA. Experience with M&A, turnarounds, operations, marketing, and cross-sector work in energy, edtech, manufacturing, and services.
A few years back I started using AI seriously. I have no tech background, AI just fit the way my brain works. I'm twice-exceptional (2E) with strong pattern recognition, weak working memory, and generally poor exec function related to organization, time management, etc. Every productivity system I've ever tried has failed to mitigate my ADHD.
So I built my own.
Everything below is one body of work. chief-of-staff-2 is the system. ai-chief-of-staff-engine is its machinery. bloatbot and buildbot are the tools that keep it lean. ai-chief-of-staff is where it began.
A personal operating system for a chaotic professional life, in plain markdown in an Obsidian vault. It triages, tracks, briefs, and remembers. Model agnostic, ADHD-first, open to anyone. This is the current version, so start here.
New to it? The Obsidian setup guide wires your vault to an AI in a few minutes, and works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and any other MCP agent.
The original. Version one kept growing until it had to be torn down and rebuilt as the repo above. It still works and shows where the ideas came from. The architecture converged independently with Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki, MemPalace, and Nous Research's Hermes Agent, all in a two-month window.
- bloatbot. An auditor for your AI workspace. Finds the bloat, proposes the cuts, touches nothing.
- buildbot. Its sibling, the builder. Interviews you, blueprints, builds only what you ratify, proves it while you watch.
- ai-chief-of-staff-engine. The machinery behind the system: a memory engine and the operating loop built on it, eight staged releases, runnable and tested.
- Notion vs Obsidian. Everything you need to know about using Notion and Obsidian with an LLM. Last verified August 2026.
Independent consulting and fractional work across operations, marketing, and small-business builds, with AI as my operating layer. Writing and creating as ChasingGnosis on TikTok. Open to operator roles at AI-native companies, or enterprise engagements helping teams actually use AI.