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Saadiq Rodgers-King

AI Coach with 20+ years in tech helps professionals leverage AI tools to boost productivity. Shares practical insights from FinTech, Web3, and SaaS experience.

📍 Brooklyn, NY https://saadiq.xyz

Building Your Personal Data Pipeline: Taking Control of Your AI Context

Companies leverage proprietary data for AI advantage. As individuals, we should too. I'm building my own personal data pipeline to make all my scattered context (notes, conversations, insights) searchable and mine. Here's why you should consider doing the same.

How to Build AI Automations That Others Can Actually Use

AI can generate any script, but handing it off to non-technical users is still a nightmare. I found a way to use AI to build visual workflows that others can actually run and modify. Here's my breakthrough with n8n and Cursor.

How to Move Your Team from AI Fear to AI Fluency

An 8-step framework to transform your team from AI-anxious to AI-fluent. This "Crawl, Walk, Run" approach addresses both technology and culture, turning individual AI wins into organizational competitive advantage.

How AI Changes What's Possible, Not Just What's Faster

AI isn't just making existing processes faster—it's enabling organizations to adopt capabilities they could never afford before. This creates leapfrog advantages for players previously locked out by resource constraints.

Confessions of an AI Creator: Beyond Commas and Semicolons

A practical guide to maintaining creative control while leveraging AI's capabilities.

Permission and Purpose: AI Adoption Is Cultural Change, Not Just Technical Integration

AI adoption isn’t about tools. It’s about culture. The orgs that win are the ones where leadership models the behavior, systems support learning, and teams have permission to experiment and purpose to point the way. Move early. Move with care.

When Anything Is Possible: The Unexpected Consequences of AI-Driven Abundance

AI has removed the friction from creation, making it easier than ever to build and write. But that abundance brings a new challenge: intentionality. When anything is possible, we’re forced to ask not just can we create—but what’s actually worth creating?

Current AI Data Privacy Landscape

A comparison of data privacy practices across major AI providers—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and DeepSeek—covering training data usage, retention, HIPAA compliance, and user controls.

The AI Reckoning Is Here: Our Careers and Companies Need an Immediate Reset

AI is transforming work from team execution to individual AI orchestration. This shift arrives in sudden leaps with each model update, not gradually. Adapt immediately by mastering these tools, or risk being left behind as companies restructure and traditional roles disappear.

AI Use Case: Beyond Ghibli Filters - Practical Applications of GPT-4o's Image Tools

OpenAI's GPT-4o upgrade offers more than viral Ghibli filters with true image manipulation capabilities. It transforms product photography, presentation visuals, and social media campaigns by delivering professional-quality results in minutes instead of days.