AI implementation · Reentry · Financial literacy

AI that works in the real world — taught by someone who rebuilt hers.

I train teams to put AI into the systems they already run, and I coach people through reentry, credit, and building a business. Same skill either way: taking something complicated and making it usable by the person standing in front of it.

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100+
Clients coached
Hundreds
Trained in AI
CPS
Certified peer specialist
Since 2021
In reentry work
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Three ways to bring me in.

Every engagement starts the same way — a 30-minute call to find out whether I'm the right fit. Rates on request.

01 — For organizations

AI training & implementation

  • Team workshops and staff enablement
  • Auditing your existing systems for AI fit
  • Building the workflow, not just the demo
  • Follow-through so it survives past week two
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02 — For individuals

Reentry to Revenue

  • Reentry navigation and peer support
  • Credit repair and financial literacy
  • Job placement and interview prep
  • Starting a business from where you are
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03 — For rooms

Speaking & 1:1s

  • Conferences, panels, agency trainings
  • Private 1:1 AI coaching sessions
  • Reentry, financial literacy, and AI literacy
  • Virtual or in person, St. Louis based
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Deenna Smith
About

I've been on both sides of the desk.

I came home in 2021. Since then I've built a career in reentry — coaching over 100 people through credit, employment, and starting their own businesses — and I've become the person organizations call when they want AI to actually work inside the systems they already run.

Those two things are closer than they look. Both are about taking something intimidating and opaque and making it usable by a real person with real constraints. That's the whole job.

I'm a Certified Peer Support Specialist and a Missouri notary with Remote Online Notarization. I'm a serial entrepreneur. And I teach AI to beginners for free every week, because the people who most need these tools are the ones least likely to be handed them.

  • 2021
    Came home. Started over.
  • 2021 — NOW
    100+ clients coached through reentry, credit, and employment.
  • NOW
    Training organizations to implement AI. Teaching hundreds more for free.
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Thirty minutes. No pitch deck. Tell me what you're trying to do and I'll tell you straight whether I can help.

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