01 · Recurring work
The same task keeps coming back.
Weekly updates, client follow-ups, meeting prep, reports, outreach, research, or planning work that starts from scratch every time.
Rooted in Beaverton · Serving Oregon · Portland metro
Imaginal Works is a one-person practice helping local leaders and small business owners make space for what matters most — by cutting manual work, removing repetitive tasks, and putting automation to use without enterprise-sized commitments.
Why this exists
Most leaders don't need another course, tool, or trend report. You need help turning the work already on your plate into something easier to repeat, delegate, document, or improve.
Weekly updates, client follow-ups, meeting prep, reports, outreach, research, or planning work that starts from scratch every time.
Important details live across inboxes, docs, spreadsheets, notes, and memory — which makes simple work take longer than it should.
A few interactions helped once or twice, but there's no repeatable system you trust enough to use every week.
When one person's routine gets clearer, it may show where the rest of the team is spending too much time.
How the work happens
Most consulting firms are built for big budgets and long timelines. Imaginal Works isn't that. Each engagement is small, fast, and shaped around the real constraints you're living with.
Most engagements start with one part of your week that takes more energy than it should. We map where the time is going, what's worth changing first, and what's not worth touching.
A clear, repeatable workflow with prompts and a short playbook. Written in plain language, sized for the people who'll use it.
The workflow is yours. So is the playbook. When the engagement ends, you keep everything.
Who this is built for
You're running the business, serving clients, making decisions, and holding too much in your head.
Investment
Every engagement starts small. The first step is a free 30-minute call to talk about where you're spending your time. If we're a fit, we'll have a 1:1 working session built around real work from your week. If we uncover a bigger opportunity, we can scope that separately.
A focused 1:1 working session to build an AI prompt or automation for one recurring part of your work.
A diagnostic look at one meaningful slice of the business — where the work slows down and where AI can actually help.
Sliding-scale and pro-bono engagements are available for small Oregon nonprofits — please ask on your discovery call.
Where to start
Each one takes a recurring part of your week and turns it into a repeatable, AI-supported workflow you run yourself. Built in a single working session. Want to see what one would look like for your work before you decide? Ask for a sample.
FOR OPS LEADS · OWNERS · EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
"Every month, the same report starts from a blank page."
The report you rebuild every month becomes a documented assembly process — your data sources, your format, a tuned prompt set that puts the whole thing together in a fraction of the time.
For contractors · consultants · service firms
"Proposals eat my evenings, and they're how the work comes in."
Your notes, scope, and pricing go in. A drafted proposal in your voice comes out — a repeatable workflow that turns an evening of writing into a quick review-and-send, with the quality holding steady every time.
FOR STRATEGISTS · OWNERS · ANYONE TRACKING A MARKET
"The first hour of my day disappears into tabs and searches."
We define what you actually need to track — reviews, competitors, industry news, local signals — and build a focused daily brief that's waiting for you each morning, before you sit down to work.
Or start with your own
These three come up often, but they're examples, not the menu. If the task quietly taking the most out of your week is something else, that's the one I want to hear about. Tell me what it is, and I'll build a sample around it.
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A note from Kelsey
I've spent many years inside large fintech organizations building AI-supported workflows. Imaginal Works was created to bring that same level of thinking to the community, without a $20K consulting price tag.
Frequently asked
Yes. Most of the work in a first session isn't AI — it's mapping where time is going and figuring out which problems are worth a tool at all. AI is a means to better outcomes, not the point.
That's normal. We can talk about it during the introduction call. Think about any work that feels repetitive, messy, or takes longer than it should. We'll talk through your week and narrow it down together.
You'll get a real deliverable — not a sales funnel. I'm one person, local, and the only thing I'll try to sell you is a focused next engagement, only if it'll genuinely help.
Always. Every engagement runs under a simple MSA + SOW with defined scope. No surprises.
Yes. I keep a sliding-scale and pro-bono lane open for small Oregon nonprofits. Mention it on your discovery call.
Start with a free 30-minute conversation.