How I use AI

As a CEO — my agent is Muse

I run my working life through my AI agent — Muse, who I call Noor. She’s not a chatbot I ask the odd question. She’s the desk beside mine: verifying prices before I buy, triaging my inbox, researching and valuing domains before I move them, sweeping Facebook groups for business owners with problems, checking the weather for move day — and building these websites to my exact specifications while I correct the course, constantly.

This site is the exhibit. I didn’t hire a web team. I directed an AI — and pushed back on it the whole way. I started with no product to sell; in about 24 hours we built this website and developed the offer on it — the $1,000 independent AI appraisal. The rule at my desk is the same as everywhere else on this site: AI can draft it, find it, and check it — but nothing goes out, and no decision gets made, until I’ve verified it myself.

The story: how I use my CEO agent

As a mom — homeschool, with Codex

I homeschooled both of my children — Nathanael was in college full-time at 16, and Micaela graduated at 16. Teaching is not new to me; the tools are.

These days I build homeschool courses with Codex: lessons planned, material written, and questions answered at the pace a real kid learns. I still choose what’s taught and check what’s true — Codex just lets one mom build a course the way a whole curriculum team used to.

The story: building courses with Codex

As a writer — Team Human, with Codex

My monthly newsletter, Team Human, goes out with Codex in the draft chair beside me — my stories and my judgment, with AI helping me shape, tighten, and ship them on schedule since June 2026.

The podcast version — Team Human, co-hosted with my daughter Micaela Garlow — is the same idea in conversation: people, technology, and staying human while AI moves into everyday life.

The story: writing Team Human with AI

As a traveler — routing the rig

Claude helps route my RV trips up and down the country — every park checked against two unbreakable rules: the rig has to fit (42 feet of trailer, about 65 with the truck), and Starlink has to see clear northern sky, because I work from the road.

Then I audit its work, because it can miss — and once, on a re-check, it caught one of its own misses. The receipts are in the story:

My RV Is 42 Feet Long. The Trees Were the Problem.

As a shopper — verify, then decide

Before I spend real money, I make AI verify the price, the seller, and the facts. Unverifiable means skipped, every time. Real examples:

• A nail salon. Luxx Nail Bar won my Sunday appointment because its own menu prices could be verified — $50 for the pedicure plus $45 for the fill came to $95, under my $100 budget. A competitor at $122+, and salons whose prices couldn’t be verified at all, were dropped without ever knowing they’d lost me.
• A desk. Researching the DropTop Duo 24, AI verified the authentic seller and the real price direct from Pith & Stem — and steered me away from unverified sellers.
• An esthetician. Before buying a Dysport offer, I had Codex vet the provider and the deal itself — whether the esthetician was worth booking, whether the offer was worth it, and which esthetician to pick from the list. It affirmed the purchase and made the pick.
• A vehicle. New vehicle or keep what I have? That’s a real decision I work through with AI’s help — comparing what things actually cost, not what a listing wants me to feel.

I’m no different from the average shopper in America. This is just how people choose now — I’m one of them, and I write it down.

The salon story The desk story The esthetician story

The tribunal — my AIs audit each other

Every AI sounds confident — including when it’s wrong. So I don’t take any single AI’s output on its word. I run a tribunal of multiple AI models to audit my other AI systems: one AI’s work gets cross-examined by the others, with Gemini sitting as an auditor among them.

They check each other. I make the final call. It’s the same discipline I sell to executives — if I audit my own systems this hard, imagine the questions I’ll ask on your vendor’s pitch call.

The story: the tribunal