Find what you mean. Shape what comes next.
AI training & workflow design · Product development · Project coordination
Block. Shape. Refine.
See how I can helpIndependent consulting / Randall Garcia
I help people work out where AI belongs in their work—and put those decisions into practice.
That might mean teaching your team how to use it, building a tool around a method you’ve developed, or helping a complicated project move forward. We look at what can be automated, where AI can help you think, and what needs your own attention and judgment.
Find a starting point01 / Ways to work together
You’re trying AI, but it’s hard to tell what to hand over and what to keep doing yourself. I work through real tasks with you or your team, teach the tools, and help you test where they’re useful.
AI enablement · Training · Workflow design
You have a method, a set of materials, or a process that could become a tool. I help define what it needs to do, design the interactions, and build and test it using AI coding agents.
Product design · AI-assisted development · Testing
You have ideas, drafts, and people involved, but the direction or next steps are unclear. I help you ask the unresolved questions, develop the brief, and coordinate the work as it takes shape.
Project coordination · Developmental editing · Facilitation
02 / Selected work
Gapswork / Client collaboration
A client brought me a presentation about their problem-solving method. I helped develop it into a manuscript, then art-directed, designed, and built an AI-powered whiteboard for learning and facilitation.
Read the project noteCreative Algebra / Teaching & facilitation
During the pandemic, I taught brand-building classes to help business owners prepare before hiring a creative. More recently, I’ve facilitated AI-literacy sessions for creative-industry learners and working professionals, adjusting the agenda to their questions and understanding.
Read about the sessionsAI can write the draft or generate the code. Deciding whether it says what you mean—or does what you need—takes attention to the work itself.
I’m an editor by practice. I ask questions, work through drafts with you, and help turn what you know into instructions we can test. Sometimes we need to leave a question open for a while. Sometimes we need to build something and see what happens.
The aim is for you to understand the choices well enough to make them, including what you want to keep doing yourself.
03 / The person at the desk
Independent consultant
Portland, Oregon
I’ve worked as a designer, developmental editor, facilitator, and builder of software. In a project, I move between those roles: listening to what someone is trying to do, working through the details, and helping the people involved decide what comes next.
I use AI coding tools in my own development work. I direct the design and implementation, inspect what the agents produce, and test and revise it. That experience informs what I teach about using AI—and where its output needs a closer look.
My practice, Creative Algebra, brings writing, design, and systems thinking together. It gives us ways to work through a question before we have a clear answer.
Creative Algebra
Say what you mean in your own words. What’s happening, and what matters to you here?
Turn those values into criteria we can use. What would make a decision or a draft feel right?
Work through the language and the choices. Try another version. Notice what becomes clearer.
Make the thing, test it, and use what happens to decide the next step.
We can return to any of these as the work changes.
Get a rough version down. Work through how it fits together. Attend to the details.
Find what you mean. Shape what comes next.
Tell me what you have, what you’re trying to do, and where you could use another pair of eyes. A rough description is enough to start a conversation.
info@editing.helpFor a working session, a project, or a role on your team.
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