I built this for myself first.
I was a COO with four hundred people and a calendar I had lost control of. What fixed it was not a tool I bought. It was a system built around how I actually worked. I set that up for other executives now, in person, on their own accounts.
You should not have to explain your job to the person building your system.
You will not have to explain what a board pack is, why that meeting cannot move, which relationships you handle yourself and always will, or why "just delegate it" stopped being an answer years ago. I have had the calendar. I have had the four hundred people, the P&L, the board, and the direct reports who all needed something from me by Thursday.
I know which parts of your week are genuinely yours and which parts should never have reached you in the first place. That distinction is the entire job, and it is the part nobody who has not done your work can get right.
The fourth option.
The people who offer this are usually one of three things. An agency, which will assign you an account manager and treat you like a logo. A technologist, who may be excellent and has never run anything, and will optimize the wrong half of your week with great enthusiasm. Or a course, which takes your problem and turns it into homework.
I am the fourth thing. Someone who had your job, got tired of it, built the fix for himself, and happens to be technical enough to build yours.
There was a stretch where I was overwhelmed pretty much constantly.
I'd start the day panicked, already behind on everything I had to get done. And I'd end it tossing and turning, mind racing through what didn't get done. I can remember laying there staring at the clock at midnight, wishing I could fall asleep, and being too wound up to shut my brain off.
"The worst part wasn't the workload. It was being frozen. There were days I genuinely didn't know which direction to turn, because the to-dos had piled up past the point where I could tell what mattered."
I tried the usual first. ChatGPT, to help write an email or draft a report.
Then I tried everything else. Grok, Gemini, Perplexity, Kimi, and more. They each did some things well. That was never really the problem.
The problem was that I had to explain myself over and over. Every time. Who I am, how I work, what the business is, how I want it done. By the time I'd finished explaining what I needed, I could have just done it myself. A lot of days it was more work than it was worth.
Then it clicked. I'd been trying to make AI work. So I stopped, and I set it up to work for me instead.
In my life, on my hardware, in my systems. The fix wasn't a better chatbot. It was giving it a place to keep everything I kept having to repeat. My files, my notes, the way I like things done, the tools I already use.
Once that existed, I stopped explaining and started delegating.
My inbox doesn't run my life anymore. My agent sends the calendar invites. It drafts the emails. It watches the handful of things I actually need to know about and leaves the rest alone. It helps me keep my businesses straight instead of me holding all of it in my head.
It gave me my time back. Honestly, it gave me my life back.
I didn't build it to sell. Then I started describing it to other people I know who run things, mostly here in central Iowa, and the response was always the same. Not "how does that work." More like "can you do that for me."
So that's what I do now.
Set up in person
A day together, in your office or wherever you work. I build it around how you actually operate: your calendar, your inbox, your reading, your decisions, your people.
Yours, not your employer's
It runs on your accounts, holds your data, and answers to you. Nothing touches company IT. No procurement, no security review, no ticket, and nothing about it sitting on a corporate server you do not control.
It goes where you go
If you change companies, it comes with you. You are not building equity in someone else's tool.
Someone answers
Ongoing private care. When something breaks or your work changes, you text me. You don't file a ticket.
You are about to hand it your inbox.
A personal AI setup only earns its keep when it can see the real material: your calendar, your inbox, your board pack, the things you would never put into a company tool. That access is exactly what makes it useful and exactly what makes it dangerous if the person who built it has not thought carefully about it.
I have built software under HIPAA and I have been the executive whose name was on it. I know which questions to ask before your correspondence goes anywhere near a model, which providers retain what, and how to set it up so the useful part happens and the exposure does not.
This stays between us.
Most of the executives I do this for would rather their organization not know how they work. That's fine, and it's normal. Engagements are covered by mutual NDA as a matter of course, I don't publish client names, and nothing about your setup lives anywhere I could be compelled to hand over.
Senior people inside organizations large enough that the internal tooling will never be built for them specifically. If you're spending your evenings doing work that shouldn't require you, and you've already tried the chatbot and found it didn't stick, this is that problem solved properly.
Arrange a private setup
A short conversation first, no obligation, and I will tell you honestly whether this is worth doing for you. If it is not, I will say so and you will have lost twenty minutes.
Email me directly at me@davidpedelty.com, or use the form if you prefer.