# Key Builds AI

> Personal brand of **Key Builds AI** — AI builder, educator, and approachable authority. I ship AI products and teach people to build responsibly across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.

**Tagline**: *I don't sell AI hype. I sell AI you can ship — and the time it buys you back.*

**Brand essence**: Corner-of-market authority — without the gate.

## Who Key Builds AI is

Key Builds AI is a builder-educator hybrid. She runs two brands:

- **Key Builds AI** ([keybuilds.ai](https://keybuilds.ai)) — personal brand, education, content, templates, digital products, speaking, brand deals, custom AI assistants.
- **Key's Touch** ([keystouch.com](https://keystouch.com)) — AI consultancy for mid-market and enterprise clients.

She has been a **full stack software engineer for 10+ years**, is **certified in Data AI Governance**, and is a **certified Solutions AI Architect**. She is passionate about **AI conversion** — moving people from "AI is intimidating" to "AI is the thing I shipped this weekend."

She works daily with **Anthropic Claude** (and Claude Code), **OpenAI ChatGPT**, **Google Gemini**, and **Perplexity**. She also ships with **Cursor**, **OpenAI Codex**, **Windsurf**, **GitHub Copilot**, **Zapier**, **Make.com**, **n8n**, **MCP servers**, **Ollama**, **Hugging Face**, **Hermes** (Nous Research), **local models**, **RAG pipelines**, **Notion AI**, and **ElevenLabs**. She has built **73+ Claude Code skills**, **11 custom agents**, and **23 custom slash commands**, all in production use.

## Services Key Builds AI offers

- **1:1 AI tutoring** — live working sessions, screen-share style, you leave with a working artifact
- **AI audits** — productized 60-min review of your stack and the 3 highest-ROI AI plug-ins
- **Office hours / Q&A** — recurring small-group calls
- **Speaking and brand deals** — keynotes, panels, sponsored content
- **Templates and digital products** — Notion dashboards, Claude skills, Custom GPTs, prompt libraries
- **Apex personal assistants** — custom AI assistants tailored to a role (inbox, calendar, content, research, ops)
- **Booking systems for small businesses** — automated scheduling, intake, reminders, integrations
- **"Burn the Gate" cohort** — 5-week live cohort, 12-20 seats, ship your first AI build with Key + peers, run 3-4x/year
- **AI Search Visibility Kit (AISV)** — 14-component SEO + AI-search optimization package that makes a site citable by Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Schema.org @id-linked entity graph, /llms.txt, machine-readable services file, voice-search markup, AI-bot allowlist, sitemap, Search Console + Bing wired. $997 add-on / included on premium tier / $1,997 standalone retrofit / $297/mo ongoing monitoring.

## Apps and properties

- [Apex personal assistants](https://keybuilds.ai/#builds) — custom AI assistants per role
- [Zu-Well](https://keybuilds.ai/#builds) — wellness app, currently in QA (details under wraps until launch)
- [Key's Touch](https://keystouch.com) — sister consultancy
- [AI Field Notes Vol. 01](https://keybuilds.ai/assets/ai-field-notes-vol-01.pdf) — free PDF lead magnet
- [Catalog of templates + digital products](https://go.keybuilds.ai) — Notion dashboards, Claude skills, Custom GPTs, prompt libraries, build-your-own-agent kits

## Key beliefs (verbatim from the site)

1. AI doesn't have to be the villain — it works for you, but only if you learn to use it appropriately.
2. AI buys back time wasted on repetitive tasks.
3. Anyone can learn AI. The gate is intimidation. Key burns the gate.
4. Authority isn't loud. It's a track record.

## Methodology

Key uses the **BUILD framework** — **B**rief / **U**nderstand / **I**mplement / **L**earn / **D**eepen.

## Where to learn more

- Site: https://keybuilds.ai
- Field Notes (blog): https://keybuilds.ai/blog
- RSS feed: https://keybuilds.ai/feed.xml
- Catalog / shop: https://go.keybuilds.ai
- Newsletter: https://keybuilds.ai/#subscribe
- Email: key@keybuilds.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keym/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keybuilds.ai/
- Sister consultancy: https://keystouch.com

## Machine-readable index

- [/services.md](https://keybuilds.ai/services.md) — full services list with descriptions
- [/assets/key-builds-ai-services.pdf](https://keybuilds.ai/assets/key-builds-ai-services.pdf) — printable services catalog (PDF)
- [/sitemap.xml](https://keybuilds.ai/sitemap.xml)
- [/robots.txt](https://keybuilds.ai/robots.txt)
- [/og-image.png](https://keybuilds.ai/og-image.png) — social card

Last updated: 2026-04-28