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Amy Craven is a productivity consultant, writer, and speaker who helps professionals and teams reclaim their time through practical applications of artificial intelligence. With over fifteen years of experience in operations management and workflow optimization, she bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI capabilities and the real-world habits of busy professionals.
Her career began in project management at a fast-growing SaaS company, where she discovered that the biggest productivity gains came not from working harder or longer, but from systematically eliminating the repetitive work that consumed everyone's best hours. She spent the next decade developing and teaching workflow optimization methods across industries including technology, healthcare, education, and professional services.
When large language models became available to the general public in late 2022, Amy recognized immediately that they were the most powerful automation tool she had ever seen — and that most people would fail to use them effectively. She began experimenting, documenting, and refining approaches that normal professionals could adopt without technical expertise. Her newsletter, *The Prompt*, reaches over 40,000 subscribers and features practical, tested workflows for using AI in everyday work.
Amy's philosophy is grounded in a core belief: technology should make your work more human, not less. She advocates for AI adoption that amplifies creativity, deepens relationships, and frees people to focus on work that only they can do. She is skeptical of hype, rigorous about testing, and committed to accessible, jargon-free guidance that works the first time you try it.
In addition to writing and consulting, Amy speaks regularly at industry conferences and corporate events on the topics of AI productivity, prompt engineering, and the future of knowledge work. She has delivered keynotes and workshops for organizations including Microsoft, the Project Management Institute, and multiple Fortune 500 companies.
She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is an enthusiastic but mediocre gardener, an obsessive reader of both fiction and non-fiction, and a firm believer that the best productivity tool is a walk without your phone.
