# 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).

## Blog

Notes on AI enablement, product engineering and business: how teams actually change, what ships, what it's worth, and what I got wrong along the way.

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

- [When Failure Becomes Part of the Product](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/when-failure-becomes-part-of-the-product): When Failure Becomes Part of the Product I love UX solutions that turn failure into a feature. Not by hiding the failure. Not by pretending everything worked perfectly. But by asking a more… (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): The fastest way to lose trust is to tell people they should trust you. Yet businesses do it every day. (2026-07-15)
- [Most founders think the more they explain, the more convincing they sound.](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/most-founders-think-the-more-they-explain-the-more-convincing-they-sound): Most founders think the more they explain, the more convincing they sound. It's often the opposite. When you're deep in building something, you eventually fall in love with your product: the… (2026-07-02)
- [Don’t refine your prompts by guessing.](https://www.tdespins.com/blog/dont-refine-your-prompts-by-guessing): How Listening to AI Can Help. (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): Last week, my dear friend and software developer, Ben, shared his recent proof-of-concept and complained about how AI keeps giving him terrible UI/UX. I was stunned because mine have been… (2025-12-15)

## Talks

- [Talks archive](https://www.tdespins.com/talks)
- [AI Builders IL](https://www.tdespins.com/talks/escaping-the-poc-graveyard) (2026-10-11)
- [Meetup @ Wix](https://www.tdespins.com/talks/wix-claude-meetup) (2026-11-02)
- [ Moving Beyond the AI Hype.](https://www.tdespins.com/talks/moving-beyond-the-ai-hype) (2026-11-05)
- [​Codex Demo Night](https://www.tdespins.com/talks/codex-tv) (2026-09-02)
- [Tel Aviv | Claude for Everyone](https://www.tdespins.com/talks/anthropic-first-community-event-tel-aviv) (2026-05-11)
- [AgentCamp by Global AI Milwaukee](https://www.tdespins.com/talks/the-dark-side-of-ai) (2026-04-13)

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