AI Assistant Building Expert Pod — with Sam Davis from Sam Davis AI Automations
Looking to build an AI executive assistant to cut through the noise and organise your life?
Join Sam Davis, PhD data scientist (USYD, environmental data science) and AI builder from Sam Davis AI Automations, and a maximum of four other founders for these two-part mentoring sessions, designed to help you navigate current challenges or opportunities.
By the end of these Pods, you will have a working first version of an AI executive assistant set up on their own machine, ready to play with.
Who is this Pod best for?
Founders, consultants and solo operators who are buried in admin + context-switching and want to test whether an AI executive assistant actually fits their workflow. Comfortable installing software; don't need to be a developer.
What to expect from Session 1
Install Claude Code inside VS Code, connect Obsidian as the reading interface, and walk through the two build prompts (Karpathy LLM Wiki + Nate Herk EA-skills build) that get a skeleton EA personalised to you.
What to expect from Session 2
Debug what surfaced, walk through what else is possible. Walk away with: a working AI executive assistant on your own machine you can keep building from.
Between sessions
Virtual Coworking sessions are available for those interested in accountability support. Hosted on the 3rd Thursday of the month, 10:30am - 12pm AEST, see your Slack channel for details and the link to add the reminder to your calendar.
About Sam Davis
I'm a PhD data scientist (USYD, environmental data science) and AI builder — eight AI systems built in the last twelve months across climate, biodiversity, and operations, including the executive assistant that runs my own work. I coach founders and small teams to build the same kind of system for themselves using Claude Code + Obsidian. Background spans research, university teaching, and AI consulting. Based in Sydney; free 30-min intro at crads-ai.com.
Connect with Sam Davis
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-davis4/
Securing Your Spot
Request to join the pod to register your interest. If accepted, calendar invites will be issued for both dates + virtual coworking, click “yes” on all invites to ensure they show in your calendar.
If a ticket isn’t issued within 1-2 working days it means you have been added to a waitlist for this pod and you will be notified if we find you a space.
What's an Impact Collab Expert Pod?
Expert Pods are two-part, small group mentoring sessions, designed to help founders and organisational leaders build better systems for business, impact and/or wellbeing.
Facilitated by an Expert member from the Impact Collab, they are intimate, interactive, and personalised to your unique challenges, creating an environment for tailored advice, actionable feedback, accountability and growth.
How do they work?
Hosted during a single month, the pods are run as 2 x 1-hour online workshops, two weeks apart. The Workshops are interactive, with lots of Q&A, live feedback, and direct, tailored support.
At the end of Workshop 1, participants set a list of items to action or exercise. In Workshop 2, these items are reviewed, additional feedback is given, and next steps are provided. This is by far one of our most valuable knowledge and relationship-building programs in the community.
And the best part… it’s included in the Impact Collab membership with first time visitor guest passes available for just $5!
Cancellations and No Shows
Seats in the pods are extremely limited and our experts’ time is highly valuable so our cancellation policy is designed to reflect this.
If you are unable to attend your expert pod please email [email protected] as soon as possible to increase our chances of filling your seat.
If there are more than 7+ days until Workshop 1 your ticket will be re-released. No further action is needed and cancellation fees will not apply.
If there are less than 7 days until workshop 1, we will check the waitlist to see if we can find a replacement for your seat and best efforts will be made to fill your seat. If a replacement cannot be found, the following cancellation fees will apply:
Both Sessions: $30 | Session 2 only: $15.You may also opt in for a $75, 30-min make up session for the following circumstances:
If you’ve missed session 1 to be able to join session 2
If you’ve only missed session 2
* Due to the private nature of the Expert Pods they will not be recorded. If you cannot attend session 1 then session 2 will be automatically forfeited.
Can’t make the pod dates, but would still like to work with the Expert 1:1?
You are welcome to contact [email protected] for a warm introduction, or reach out to the expert directly via their contact details above.