# Tali Despins

> AI enablement product engineer, public speaker and Claude Ambassador, with a businesswoman's lens on all of it: every product call comes back to strategy, marketing and ROI. I help organizations adopt AI without leaving their people behind, then write down what actually worked.

Tali Despins writes and speaks about AI enablement, product engineering and business: how teams adopt AI tools like Claude Code in practice, what changes in how people think and work, what actually ships, and whether it pays off. Every product take comes with a business owner's perspective on strategy, marketing and ROI (she built and scaled a brand, Max Venom, before moving into AI).

## Availability

Open to full-time roles in AI enablement and product engineering.

- [Get in touch](https://www.tdespins.com/#contact)

## Blog



- [Blog index](https://www.tdespins.com/blog)
- [RSS feed](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/feed.xml)

- [Tali's POC / MVP Framework](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/talis-poc-mvp-framework): The working method from my POC Graveyard talk: thirteen steps from first idea to a shipped product, for anyone whose AI side projects stall after the exciting first hour. (2026-10-10)
- [When Failure Becomes Part of the Product](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/when-failure-becomes-part-of-the-product): My tiny weather app couldn't always find a photo. Instead of a gray placeholder, the fallback joined the nostalgic design. A note on designing the unhappy path. (2026-08-01)
- [In business, as in writing: show, don't tell.](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/in-business-as-in-writing-show-dont-tell): Claims rarely persuade. Writers learn to show, not tell, and founders, marketers and salespeople should too: replace every claim with something people can see. (2026-07-15)
- [Your Pitch Has Too Much Information](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/most-founders-think-the-more-they-explain-the-more-convincing-they-sound): More arguments can make a pitch weaker, not stronger. Lead with the change your product makes, skip the jargon, and stop before your best point gets buried. (2026-07-02)
- [I Build a New App Every 24 Days](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/i-build-a-new-app-every-24-days): AI has made building cheap, but demand is still unpredictable. Why I now ship a new app every 24 days: to test ideas against real behavior instead of guessing. (2026-06-11)
- [Don’t refine your prompts by guessing.](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/dont-refine-your-prompts-by-guessing): Longer prompts often make results worse. Read how the AI interprets your request, borrow its own language, and rewrite. A workflow I use daily in Claude Code. (2025-12-25)
- [Using AI: Why Some People Get Great Results While Others Get Garbage](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/using-ai-why-some-people-get-great-results-while-others-get-garbage): Same model, same tools, very different results. AI is a people pleaser, not a mind reader, so output is capped by your own expertise. How to work around that. (2025-12-15)

## Talks

- [Talks archive](https://www.tdespins.com/talks)
- [Claude for Everyone](https://www.tdespins.com/talks/anthropic-first-community-event-tel-aviv) (2026-05-11)
- [Codex Demo Night](https://www.tdespins.com/talks/codex-tv) (2026-09-02)
- [AgentCamp](https://www.tdespins.com/talks/the-dark-side-of-ai) (2026-04-13)

## Other

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