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There's a new tool every Tuesday.
A new workflow you should already know.
A reason to feel behind by lunch.

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01 · THE THESIS

You're not behind.
You're in the wrong conversation.

None of those tools are the point. The point is the muscle underneath them — the small set of moves that make AI a posture instead of a treadmill. Almost nobody is teaching that.

02 · THE INSIGHT
AI is the thing that closes the gap when people feel like AI is the gap.
— SWITCHBOARDS · FOUNDING PRINCIPLE

The internet was the same shape, on a slower clock.

The hard part wasn't the browser. It was the muscle of "I don't have to drive to the library."

The people who got there first weren't better at HTML. They'd just changed how they thought about access.

That muscle took a decade. This one has eighteen months.

03 · THE METHOD

Three principles. That's the syllabus.

We don't teach prompts. We don't teach n8n. We don't make you become a developer. We teach the operator's stance — the small handful of moves that make AI a posture instead of a tool.

01 · DATA

Good data in, good output out.

The whole prompt-engineering industry is selling you a workaround for messy context. Manage your data first; the prompt is the last thing that matters.

02 · STANCE

Think AI-adjacent.

When you sit down to do something, instinctively check whether AI can close part of the gap. Not the whole task — just a piece. Background, not foreground.

03 · TOOLS

Tools are downstream.

Once the muscle is there, the tools are interchangeable. Pick whatever's open in front of you. The Tuesday-update treadmill stops being a treadmill.

Operators who stopped chasing tools, and started shipping.

"I came in convinced I needed to learn n8n. I left realizing I needed to clean up my notes. My output went up 4x in three weeks."

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Rachel Okonkwo Executive coach · Denver

"Dani doesn't teach AI. She teaches a way of paying attention. It survives every model release."

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Marcus Chen Founder · HR-tech, Series A

"I was burning out keeping up. Four hours with this group and I cancelled six subscriptions the same week."

JM
Jess Morales Brand designer · Brooklyn
04 · WHAT'S INSIDE

The next workshop is small, paid, and taught live.

◐ WAITLIST OPEN

The Switchboards Workshop.

A four-hour live working session. Not a lecture, not pre-recorded. You leave with the operator's stance built in your hands — on your data, your stack, your real work.

Waitlist gets first dibs. No pre-payment required.

// what you leave with

  • The three-principle operator's stance, applied to your real work
  • Your own data system — cleaned, organized, AI-ready
  • An AI-adjacent workflow rebuilt around how you actually think
  • A small cohort of operators you can keep talking to after
COHORT 03 · EARLY SUMMER $280· per seat
02 · DISPATCH ● LIVE

The Dispatch

Monthly letter. One operator move per issue. 12,400+ readers.

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03 · LIBRARY ◌ SOON

The Workflow Library

Five-minute Looms. Real work, real moves. Email-gated. Opens this quarter.

Get early access →
04 · OPERATORS ◌ SOON

The Operators

A small, active room. Not a Slack graveyard. Launching later this year.

Get notified →
05 · WHAT THE DISPATCH LOOKS LIKE

Once a month. Worth the inbox.

Each issue starts from something I actually did that month — a problem I solved, a workflow I broke, a way of thinking that shifted. Then I show you the move.

No "ten tools you should try." No AI-news roundup. One good idea per issue. Use it this week.

inbox · the switchboards dispatch 3 issues
The Switchboards Dispatch
I built an app this month without writing code
May · #06
The Switchboards Dispatch
Stop prompting. Start managing your data.
Apr · #05
The Switchboards Dispatch
The "AI-adjacent" mental model
Mar · #04
06 · WHO'S TEACHING

I built Switchboards because the AI education I needed didn't exist yet.

Two years into the AI shift, every program I saw was a tool class. Prompting class. Frameworks class. Every Tuesday, a new one.

The people getting the most out of AI weren't the ones memorizing tools. They'd quietly changed how they thought. They reframed the question before they wrote the prompt. They cleaned the data and let the model do the rest. They treated AI the way the rest of the office still treats Google — background, not foreground.

There was no school for that. So I built one.

Dani Thompson, founder of Switchboards

FOUNDER

Dani Thompson

Builder of things she "shouldn't" be able to build. Ships apps without ever opening the code. Runs Switchboards from a small studio in Austin and a long backlog of Looms.

LinkedIn ↗ X ↗ Email ↗
07 · QUESTIONS

Things people asked before they joined.

Do I need to be technical?+
No. The whole point is that you don't. The operator's stance is a thinking move, not a coding move. The last cohort had two engineers and thirty-six people who'd never written a line in their life. The non-engineers shipped more.
Is this another prompt-engineering course?+
No. We barely talk about prompts. We talk about data, attention, and the question you're actually asking. Prompts are the last thing you fix, not the first.
What tools do you teach?+
The ones already open on your machine. Whatever you have access to is fine. The point of the workshop is to make the tool layer interchangeable, not to lock you into one. If you're a Claude person, stay one. If you're a ChatGPT person, stay one.
Will this still be relevant in six months?+
That's the whole pitch. The tools won't be — the muscle will. The internet is still using the same muscle ("I don't have to drive to the library") that took off in 1998. The infrastructure changed; the move didn't.
What's the refund policy?+
If by the end of the four hours you don't have a working stance and a meaningfully changed workflow, email and I'll refund you. No form. It's happened twice. Both refunds were sent the same day.
How big is the cohort?+
Capped at 40. Live, on Zoom, with breakouts. Recordings go to attendees only. The waitlist gets registration links 48 hours before anyone else.
Will my company expense it?+
Most do. There's an invoice option at checkout. If you need a one-pager to send to your manager, reply to the waitlist email and I'll send one over.
08 · YOUR MOVE

Stop chasing tools.
Start building the muscle.

Cohort 03 opens this summer. Drop your email and you'll be the first in.

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