Get genuinely good at AIon the work you already do.
The person training & coaching you on AI should be a great coach regularly building with AI. Most AI training is run by people who don’t build, or builders who can’t teach. I do both, and I still ship every day.
Slow Works is hands-on AI coaching, team training, and workshops led by Shawn Price (opens in new tab).
We work on the tasks already eating your week: a newsletter you draft and edit with an agent, an inbox triaged the way you would, weekly updates pulled from raw notes. You learn the tools and build your own agents, so the skill is yours to keep.
Twenty minutes. No pitch. I’ll tell you in the first ten if we’re not a match.
Coaching and team engagements carry a one-month money-back guarantee.
Three ways to work together
Pick the path that fits where you are
The work is the same in each: real fluency, the tools you’ll keep using, and agents you own.
For individuals
Executive Coaching
Best when it's just you, and you want to drive it yourself.
Private 1:1 coaching for a leader or operator who wants to go from curious to capable and walk away building their own agents.
- Private, built on your own work
- Fluency plus agents you own
- One-month money-back guarantee
For a team
Team Engagements
Best when a team is changing how it works together.
Hands-on work with a team ready to change how it works. We find the repetitive drag, raise everyone's fluency, and build agents the team owns.
- Shared fluency across the team
- Agents the team owns and runs
- One-month money-back guarantee
For a group
Bespoke Workshops
Best when you want to quickly upskill a room.
A tailored run of multiple sessions that teach your people how AI works and how to use it for real work.
- The right number of sessions for your team
- Optional hands-on build day
- Current, builder-led teaching
Why work with me
A builder who can teach, and a coach who can build
I’ve spent 20+ years shipping software as an engineer, engineering manager, CTO, and technical founder. I build with AI tools every day, including my own products, and I’ve completed the full Co-Active (opens in new tab) coach training. That pairing is the whole point: getting good at AI is part software skill, part new habits, and you want someone who can teach both.
Public work with Build Canada
Since February 2025, I’ve contributed public software and policy work with Build Canada (opens in new tab), a nonpartisan group building tools and memos for Canadian growth & prosperity. The work is public and open to inspect: legislation, spending data, policy memos, and government outcomes.
- Federal Workbench (opens in new tab) · Built a bilingual AI/RAG app for querying Canadian Parliament and legislation data.
- Outcomes Tracker (opens in new tab) · Proposed the KPI framework for the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, then added the accepted metrics in code.
- Builder MP (opens in new tab) · Contributed to the parliamentary bills tracker.
- Electrify memo (opens in new tab) · Contributed to the policy memo on Canadian electrical energy.
- First Nations Financial Data (opens in new tab) · Collaborated with Build Canada’s Head of Engineering on data validation for roughly 11,000 PDFs.
Studio work
Products and experiments I build inside Slow Works. They keep the practice sharp, and they’re why I can teach this from lived experience.
Canon(launching soon)
Desktop software for managing public and private Agent Skills (opens in new tab) across multiple clients.
Big-5 ML Pipeline (opens in new tab)
Machine learning pipeline and public assessment app for Big Five personality scoring.
Stratum (opens in new tab)
Obsidian plugin for turning Zotero sources into literature notes. Used by students, researchers, and academics.
FAQ
Questions people usually ask
No. You bring the work and the curiosity. I teach the tools in plain language and we practice on the tasks already on your plate.
All three. I raise your AI fluency, train you on the tools, and we build agent skills and custom agents around your own work, so you can keep building on your own afterward.
The ones that fit your work, often Claude Cowork with Agent Skills and Connectors (MCPs), plus best practices for working with LLMs. The goal is judgment you can reuse as the tools change, not memorizing one app.
Yes. We use tools and settings that keep your data private and out of model training, you own the IP we create together, and I always work under an NDA.
If we're a fit, we pick where you or your team want to get stronger, start on real work, and settle whether 1:1 coaching, a team engagement, or a workshop is the right shape.
Yes. I'm based in Vancouver and am available to work in person with local clients, and remotely with individuals, teams, and groups anywhere.
Coaching and team engagements carry a one-month money-back guarantee.
Bring me the work you want to get good at.
We’ll start where you’ll feel it fastest. If we’re not a fit, I’ll tell you in the first ten minutes.
Small roster. Coaching and team engagements carry a one-month money-back guarantee.