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by Jacqueline V. Twillie, MBA

I Run an AI Company. Here's What I Actually Use It For.

Hey y'all,

Twenty-four percent of you told me in our March survey that you want more AI tools for career moves. I took that seriously. I also happen to be building an AI company right now, so I'm not theorizing about what these tools can do. I'm in them every day.

This week I'm doing something different with this email. Instead of one long strategy piece, I'm giving you four quick briefings. Each one covers a specific place where AI can save you time in your career right now, and I'm telling you exactly how I'd use it.

What used to take an evening now takes twenty minutes.

AI tools can pull keywords from a job description and restructure your resume around them fast. I use this in my own workflow. It's real, it works, and if you're still manually rewriting your resume for every application, you're spending time you don't need to spend.

The piece I want you to keep in your own hands is your career narrative. Not the keywords. The two or three sentences at the top that tell someone who you are and why your path makes sense. That part needs to come from you, because it's the part a hiring manager actually reads.

Feed it a job description. Then hit record on your phone.

You can give AI a role posting, a company's recent earnings call, a hiring manager's LinkedIn profile, and it will generate practice questions that are surprisingly close to what you'd face in a final round. I've tested this. The questions are solid.

Here's what I'd add: answer out loud and record yourself. Not in your head. Out loud, with your phone propped up. Then listen back. You will hear every hedge, every filler word, every place you rushed past something you should have slowed down on. I've done this exercise with professionals who have twenty years of experience and they're always surprised by what they hear.

Your LinkedIn profile shouldn't read like everyone else's.

You've seen the profiles. The same five buzzwords in the headline, a summary that sounds like it was generated by the same tool, "results-driven leader" language that could belong to anyone. AI tools can audit your profile for SEO, suggest headline rewrites, and even draft your "About" section. Some of them are pretty good at structure.

But the profiles that get the right people to reach out have something a tool can't generate: specificity that sounds human. Real numbers, real projects, a point of view. When your summary reads like a person wrote it, people actually read it. When it reads like a template, it looks like everybody else's. Use AI to get the structure right. Then go back in and make it sound like you.

AI can't catch you selling yourself short.

I sat down with Alison Anthony on the VEST Her podcast a few weeks ago and we spent most of the conversation on something that keeps coming up in my work: the places where people lose money aren't technical. They're personal. You negotiate against yourself before anyone else has a chance to. You spiral on whether you're worth the number. You get a yes and then forget to follow up on the details.

No app is going to tap you on the shoulder for any of that. I walked through both my L.A.T.T.E. framework and a newer one I shared called FLOW for handling difficult conversations in real time. Alison asked the kind of questions that made me think differently about my own frameworks, which doesn't happen often.

Rooting for you,

Jacqueline