Anthropic
Claude
Your thinking partner for writing, analysis, and decisions — desktop and web, grounded in your company's context.
Teaching AI to the building industry.
Where to start
Start using AI in your building-industry business without getting lost.
- We start with the basics — what to download, which tools to trust, and how to give AI real context about your business.
- Then we build toward workflows that run with human review, shaped around your actual bottlenecks.
- Training, workflow design, custom implementation, and a private Discord community — all for the building industry.
I tried ChatGPT and everything it gave me was generic.
Someone described an AI workflow at a conference. It sounded great — I just wouldn't know where to start.
I don't have time to figure this out between jobs.
If any of that sounds familiar, this was built for you.
This section rebuilds itself around your week.
- Your bottlenecks
- What they cost
- What one installed workflow gives back
Who this is for — pick your seat at the table
Sound like your week?
The firm this method runs inside
Florida Design
Seaglass Awards
Orlando Magazine
Home Design Awards
Best of Houzz
Design recognition
Parade of Homes
Orlando recognition
OBJ Golden 100
Private company list
Architectural Digest
Excellence in Design
Ready for the version where your team runs this?
July 21 + 22, 2026 · 4–6 PM ET · live virtual · Capped at 15 seats · small by design
Go deeper
The proof, when you want it.
Open what matters to you — nothing here requires a form or a call.
Calculator
Run the math for your team
What one repeatable task costs you every year
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Sixteen real answers · no form, no call
Case 01 · Proof from inside the firm
KBF Design Gallery — the firm Datum is built inside of.
Before Datum was a cohort, it was a method. A real story from a real business — one AI application built in a week that gave a designer nearly a quarter of her working year back.
7hrs
Per project on scope writing alone
490hrs
Per year consumed by one task
23%
Of her working year reclaimed
20%+
Increase in revenue capacity
“Our lead designer was spending 7 hours per job writing scopes, estimates, and proposals — before a single design decision had been made.” At 70 projects a year, that's 490 hours on one repeatable task.
Datum built a purpose-built app in one week that turns a short project conversation into scopes, pricing, proposals, storyboards, and selections. Her time went back to design — and revenue capacity rose over 20% with no new hires.
Every business has a task like this hiding in plain sight. Datum helps you find it and turn it into a controlled workflow.
KBF Design Gallery · Maitland, FL Architectural Digest · Excellence in DesignFlorida Design Seaglass Awards
KBF · Maitland, FL
Watch it work
Watch the scope write itself.
Sample output from the scope workflow Datum built inside KBF — the one that took a 7-hour task to about 30 minutes. Pick a project type and watch a reviewable draft assemble.
From a 20-minute project conversation: full kitchen, wall opening, island, new appliances.
Illustrative sample, streamed in your browser — names and numbers aren't from a real client file. Every real run ends the same way: a draft with flags, reviewed by a human before it touches a customer.
Build this for your business
The tools we teach
We teach the real tools. Claude. Codex. ChatGPT.
Not theory — the same AI tools we run KBF Design Gallery on every day, set up with your business context.
Anthropic
Claude Code
The agent that does multi-step work on your computer: files, reports, research, and scheduled automations.
OpenAI
Codex
OpenAI's agent for building and automating. We teach when to reach for it and how to review what it produces.
OpenAI
ChatGPT
The everyday assistant most teams start with — used properly, with prompts and context that fit your business.
Tools change monthly. The judgment we teach — what to trust, what to connect, where review belongs — doesn't.
Datum Consulting is an independent training and consulting firm, not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Anthropic or OpenAI. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC. OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Codex are trademarks of OpenAI. Product names are used for identification purposes only.
What you'll walk out with Wednesday
What you'll know how to do by Wednesday.
01
Ground AI in your business context
Give AI your company, voice, services, and constraints — so it stops answering generically.
Clear inputs · source context · useful outputs
02
Know which tasks AI should handle
Spot the admin drag and reporting work AI can take now — and the high-risk work to avoid.
Better targets · fewer distractions
03
Set up Claude, Codex, and the stack
Claude desktop vs. web, Claude Code, Codex, plugins, skills, and the settings that matter for real work.
Setup · accounts · practical tooling
04
Prompt and meta-prompt effectively
Write prompts that work, ask AI to improve them, and turn them into repeatable patterns.
Better instructions · repeatable patterns
05
Connect your software stack to AI
Files, spreadsheets, documents, browsers, business systems — and when manual review is the smarter bridge.
Connect where useful · review where needed
06
Schedule AI work without you
Daily briefings, weekly reports, research runs — with guardrails and review points built in.
Daily briefings · weekly checks · review points
07
Run several AI agents in parallel
Multiple sessions at once for research, reporting, and analysis — without losing the thread.
Parallel work · visible progress · human control
08
Turn data into reports and apps
Deep research, interactive reports, and lightweight prototypes from your own company data.
Reports · prototypes · operating decisions
Behind every workflow, the same operating pattern: what grounds the AI, what can fail, what gets logged, and where approval belongs.
Source-backed KBF recognition and press
Florida Design
Seaglass Awards
Orlando Magazine
Home Design Awards
Best of Houzz
Design recognition
Parade of Homes
Orlando recognition
OBJ Golden 100
Private company list
Architectural Digest
Excellence in Design
Florida Design
Seaglass Awards
Orlando Magazine
Home Design Awards
Best of Houzz
Design recognition
Parade of Homes
Orlando recognition
OBJ Golden 100
Private company list
Architectural Digest
Excellence in Design
Who's teaching this
Datum runs inside a real firm.
Adam Vellequette and Ashley Sheaffer own and operate KBF Design Gallery — the design-build remodeling firm behind the recognition above. Everything Datum teaches is tested against KBF's real scopes, schedules, selections, and field work, on the same tools we run the company on: Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Codex.
Meet Adam and Ashley
Founder · Datum · KBF Design Gallery
Adam Vellequette
Adam grew up in his family's remodeling business — demo in high school, then tile, cabinetry, and framing alongside KBF's tradesmen before moving into sales and operations. In 2021, he and his sister Ashley bought the company at $5.2M in revenue; by 2025 it reached $13.8M. Every bottleneck he solved along the way became part of the Datum method.
Datum Collaborator · KBF Design Gallery
Ashley Sheaffer
Ashley started at KBF as a receptionist straight out of college, earned her NKBA certification as a kitchen and bath designer, rose through sales management, and became co-owner alongside Adam in 2021. She knows the workflows from the ground up — which is exactly why she understands what AI should and shouldn't touch.