AI strategy, speaking, and writing
My brain has always solved problems sideways.
I’m Dr. Monica Rysavy. I help founders and their teams hand AI the prep work and keep the decisions for themselves. I speak about it, I write about it, and I take on a small number of clients.
20 years of getting people to try (and use!) new tools
I started as a high school business and web design teacher in Delaware. Then I moved into higher education, where my job was getting professors to adopt new tools and measuring whether they did. After that, I ran operations at Forte Labs, the online education company behind Building a Second Brain, and became its COO. Now I run my own company, Systematic You.
“She’s really been a pivotal part of our journey as a company and my journey as a CEO.”
Tiago Forte, founder of Forte Labs and author of Building a Second Brain
I’ve had ADHD the whole time, and for twenty years I didn’t talk about it publicly. Now it’s the reason I build the way I do: every system I design assumes focus comes and goes, because mine does.
AI supports, you decide.
That’s how I run my own business, and it’s how I help other people set up theirs.
Add AI last
Before anything gets automated, decide which decisions stay with a person. Most teams do it the other way around.
Build for your worst week
I build AI systems that still work on the days you’re not at full capacity, because nobody is at full capacity every day.
It looks done. Is it done?
AI can hand you a draft that sounds finished. Someone still has to read it through and decide it’s done, because that person is responsible for what it promises.
I speak about using AI without handing over your judgment
I also speak about ADHD, and about building work that fits the way people’s brains really work. In person is my favorite, and I run workshops and virtual sessions too. Most recently I spoke at Ops Ahoy 2026 in Philadelphia, on how an AI chief of staff changed the way I run my business.
What founders say
Four founders talk about what changed after we worked together.
Page Two is a book publisher. They brought me in to help their whole team start using AI.
“I’d recommend her to anyone who wants to move past dabbling with AI and actually put it to work.”
Trena White, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Page Two
Work with me
I take on a small number of clients at a time: authors, coaches, consultants, and the small teams around them. There are three ways in. An Audit tells you what to build. Training and written AI rules help your whole team use it well. And once your system is running, you can keep me in your corner.
Find out what to build, what can wait, and what to skip.
from $5,000Train your teamTraining and AI rulesGet your whole team using AI well. Then give them written rules they’ll follow.
from $5,000Keep me in your cornerCoaching or PartnershipRegular time with me once your system is running.
from $2,000 a monthFollow along
From Farm to Database Table
A weekly email from me. One idea a week on ADHD, systems, and the business you built anyway.
I grew up on a soybean and potato farm that my Poppop ran, and his dad before him. He never used a computer in his life. He bought me my first one, a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack, when I was in kindergarten. That’s where the newsletter’s name comes from.
The book I’m writingIt’s also where I’m sharing my book, working title Masked & Medicated, as I write it.
The 1-Page AI Policy for Solo Practices
If AI touches your client work, you need rules for it in writing. This gets you a working policy in about twenty minutes: three decisions, one template, no webinar.
More from me: The Order of Operations on LinkedIn · Masked & Medicated on Substack
