Hi Reader,

Anne taught her AI readiness assessment on Saturday. It was the thing the

room voted for after her session the week before, when there was no time

left for it.

She starts a client on AI meeting recorders, which she calls the canary in

the coal mine for data, confidentiality, ethics and change management. Take

one recording and answer four things about it. Why you recorded it, what the

business use case is, who can open the file, and when it gets deleted. She

finds most organizations have never answered the last one, and her rule is

that they only ever use the recorder named on the screen.

The end game, in her words, is the trust moat. She spends the Friday

afternoon on that subject at the CREATE Conference in Salt Lake City,

October 16-19, before the conference opens. And this Saturday is

Founder Spotlight, where five founders will field questions about

what they are building. Gather With Us → She Leads AI Social Saturday​

VIKKI BAPTISTE AND THE TRANSLATOR

Vikki Baptiste taught the room to build The Translator. You paste in a block

of dense text and it returns three versions. One in plain language, the way

you would explain it to a smart friend with no technical background. One in

everyday professional, the version you would send a colleague or a client.

And the prompt underneath, written so you can paste it into any AI tool.

Each one gets a copy button. She shared the prompt and a Claude artifact

with the full instructions while she worked, so the build is yours to run.

Two things she teaches with it. Draft in Lovable, save to GitHub, refine in

Claude Code, then republish through Lovable, which keeps the token cost

down. And run plan mode before build mode, because a plan costs about a

token where a build costs two or three.

Warmly,

Kate

She Leads AI

P.S. Here's something for you this week. The LinkedIn Intelligence Skill.

It reads the data archive LinkedIn sends you on request and reports on your

engagement - who keeps turning up for you, and where you have never engaged back. Then it drafts the list of women whose posts you would appreciate, and the women you can introduce to one another.

Open the LinkedIn Intelligence Skill -> https://sheleadsai.ai/linkedin-intelligence/​

🗓️ Social Saturday

Free for all women. Hosted by Beth Lyons and Jen Schwartz.

Founder Spotlight​
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She Leads AI Social Saturday | Saturday, September 12, 2026 | 10am–noon PT | No cost for all women | Hosted by Beth Lyons and Michelle Muncy-Silva
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Founder Spotlight is a preview of the conversations we'll have at CREATE — with founders, aspiring founders, and the rest of the cavalry taking AI by the horns and making it work for THEM. We'll have more of this goodness October 16–19 in Salt Lake City.
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We're focused on demand generation — the crux of a successful start-up.
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Founder Spotlight is a quarterly gathering where founders throughout the She Leads AI community share what they're building — the wins, the setbacks, and the questions they're facing.
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Each founder addresses the same five questions. What motivated her to start the company, the pitch she uses now, the hardest part of being a founder so far, how she is generating demand, and what comes next. Beth Lyons and Jen Schwartz host and facilitate the Q&A.
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This quarter's founders — Michele Williams, Michelle Muncy-Silva, Noemi Reyes, Tatiana Dominguez, and Vanessa Chang.
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The last half hour turns the gathering into a working session. Every woman maps where her people already gather and exchange ideas, where they search for answers, which newsletters and podcasts they trust, and who already has a trusted relationship with the audience she wants to reach. Beth and Jen sort them into themes, and the strongest approaches become the source material for a She Leads AI demand-generation playbook that participants use after the gathering.
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What you'll come away with

• A map of where your audience already gathers, from the newsletters and podcasts they trust to the people who already have their ear
• Demand-generation approaches contributed by every woman in the session, sorted into themes
• A short list of channels to test over the next 30 days

Social Saturday is the weekly gathering for human-centered AI practitioners — two hours every Saturday morning where women come together to learn with AI. From seasoned practitioners to the newly curious, we gather on Zoom to make sense of our collective AI journey.
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​Gather With Us On Saturdays​
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​Social Saturday is made possible by the She Leads AI Society, our membership program for human-centered AI practitioners.

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🔥 Other Upcoming Events

​Build, Launch, Scale Lab - Workshop 7
​Run Your Business Like a Chief of Staff

For Members of the She Leads AI Society​
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🗓️ Wednesday, September 16 from 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

A great Chief of Staff doesn't do the leader's thinking. They ensure the leader's thinking doesn't get buried under administrative friction.​
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As opportunities grow, so does complexity. Ideas, follow-ups, emails, meetings, and decisions can quickly become overwhelming if they rely on memory alone.

In this workshop, participants will begin building a personal operating system that helps them capture ideas, manage commitments, and move important work forward consistently. Rather than trying to "do more," they will learn how to create reliable workflows that reduce mental load and increase focus.

Participants will explore how AI can serve as a strategist, editor, researcher, assistant, and thought partner while remaining firmly in the role of decision-maker. By the end of the session, each participant will identify three high-value AI workflows that create meaningful leverage in their business.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

• Build a simple "Inbox to Action" workflow that captures ideas, follow-ups, and decisions.
• Implement a practical approach to managing email, calendar, and incoming work.
• Identify repetitive administrative tasks that AI can help streamline.
• Create at least one reusable template or workflow that improves consistency.
• Recognize opportunities to develop AI-powered assistants that support, rather than replace, their thinking.

Participants leave with:

• A Personal Operating System map
• An Inbox to Action workflow
• Three high-value AI workflows
• One reusable template or automation
• A roadmap for developing future AI assistantsA sustainable approach to showing up consistently without burnout

The Build, Launch, Scale Lab is a benefit of membership in She Leads AI. We recommend the full arc — the workshops build on one another. And the curriculum is built to be joined as your time allows, with every replay and resource waiting in the learning management system.

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📢 She Leads AI Society Members Making an Impact

Ting Cheung is an AI Implementation Strategist at ARCA Space in Melbourne. In August she published a chapter in Dimensions of Cultural Management Practice, the open-access anthology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong's cultural management alumni symposium. Hers is "On Practice: Marketing and Managing Touring Performances from Hong Kong in Australia's Major Cities," and she wrote that it "draws on three years of on-the-ground practice" and covers "visa timelines, venue-booking norms, GST, tax withholding, sponsorship benchmarks." She called it "the guide I wish I'd had when I first started" and "an honour to be published alongside 16 fellow MACM alumni." She took a master's in cultural studies at that same university from 2003 to 2005, and she was a director of the Hong Kong Association of Theatre Technicians and Scenographers from 2006 to 2017. The Master of Marketing at Swinburne finished in December 2024. In September she wrote, "I spent years thinking my path was a bug. It was the feature." Her rule for small teams reaching for AI, "If the manual process is unclear, AI won't fix it. It will move the confusion faster."

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Melody (MJ) Kaufmann founded Write Alchemist in June 2021 and runs it from Flowery Branch, Georgia. Her LinkedIn headline signs off "Old School Nerd." She came to it from Saviynt, where she was a cyber security specialist and product marketing manager from 2019 to 2021. Her About says she "holds a Master's in Information Security (MSIS) and over 20 years of practical IT and InfoSec experience," and in November 2024 she announced her O'Reilly book, Attack Surface Management, written with Ron Eddings. She marked the company's fifth year on September 9. "Someone asked me today, 'So you're just a cybersecurity writing company?'" she wrote. "I had to think for a moment because that word 'just' was doing a lot, and over the years, so have I." Her answer came to "at least nine distinct capabilities," ending with "editorial, repurposing, and content transformation (including removing the AI-isms from the client's content)." On the work she takes, "We tend to get pulled into situations where the offering is technically complicated, the category is still developing, or the marketing team needs someone who can understand the technology well enough to help determine what the company should say."

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Dr. Julie Armstrong is a psychologist and clinical nurse specialist in California. She has been in private practice as a psychology expert since April 1998, and an expert witness in civil litigation since that September. Since March 2013 she has run continuing education through PsyDocs, where she is "approved by the California Psychological Association and the Board of Registered Nursing to provide continuing education credit" and offers "regular seminars for doctors who perform psychological evaluations as a QME." She puts the rest of that work plainly. "I educate and mentor individuals who want to take their professional career into the forensic arena." She took a master's in psychiatric nursing at UCLA from 1988 to 1990 and her Psy.D. at Pepperdine from 1992 to 1996. She is now associate faculty at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Her media work runs from Fox News to "13 episodes over 6 seasons on IDtv's Wicked Attraction providing interesting insight into unusual or criminal behavior." Her rule for the cases she takes, "I consider each case on the basis of its merit."

☕️ Worth A Share

The Translator
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Vikki Baptiste taught The Translator at Social Saturday and showed us the build. You paste in one piece of dense AI text, hit Translate, and get three versions back at once.

• Plain language, explained the way you would to a smart friend with no technical background.
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• Everyday professional, the version you would send a client.
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• The prompt underneath, the one that could have written the original.

Same idea at three levels of plain to technical, which in her words is the whole app. Her page carries the exact prompt she used live, a deliberately dense paragraph to test it on, plus her workaround for the token cost. Build the first version in Lovable, connect it to a GitHub repo, then keep editing with whatever model you already use and publish through Lovable when you are ready. That workflow is behind wheelzentertainment.com, a friend's once-a-month pop-up roller skating business.

She kept it small on purpose, so someone new to building could finish one and get a win.

Build → The Translator​

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CREATE Conference 2026 is three days in Salt Lake City built for women in AI leadership — October 16–18. Strategy, hands-on sessions, and peers who understand the challenges you're facing. Gather with us →​