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Welcome to Thoughts Brewing!

From AI workflows to ops strategy, we make the complex stuff feel doable (and even a little fun).

Who We Are & What We Do

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Happy to Meet You!

We’re Danielle & Damien Griffin, real-life humans, partners in business (and in marriage), and the founders of Thoughts Brewing.

We’ve helped startups, nonprofits, small business owners, educators, and ops teams simplify what they do and use tech that actually saves them time.

Danielle brings the creative strategy, systems brain, and humor. Damien brings the engineering mind, technical wisdom, and calm-in-the-chaos energy.

Together, we translate complex tools into real-world solutions. And yes, we test everything before we recommend it.

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Damien Griffin, CEO

Visionary Technical Leader
Damien brings over two decades of experience in business development, network engineering, and technical leadership. His expertise in strategic planning, IT assessments, and technology implementation helps businesses move from "want to do" to "doing."

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Danielle Griffin, COO

Experienced and Creative Leader
With a background in operations, project management, and creative solutions, Danielle excels in identifying challenges and crafting custom strategies to drive business success. Her expertise spans operational assessments, IT, process improvement, and more.

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Business Clients

New to AI or ChatGPT? You’re not alone.

AI is everywhere, and it feels like everyone else got a head start while you were, oh, I don’t know, running a business, leading a team, teaching students, keeping clients happy, managing life.

We get it. That’s us too.

What we’ve learned (after thousands of hours testing, teaching, and troubleshooting AI tools) is this: Most “AI trainings” are designed to impress, not empower.

We do the opposite. We teach you exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it, using action-first techniques that skip the academic fluff and get you working smarter...immediately.

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Choose Your own AI adventure
Explore Practical AI Resources That Actually Help

Whether you’re just curious or totally committed, we’ve got practical, no-BS resources to help you start (and stick) with AI tools like ChatGPT, without needing to be tech-savvy or spend weeks in a boring theoretical course.
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Read the Blog

Daily posts with use cases, how-tos, and prompts you can steal.

Read → Learn → Try It Today
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Take A Course

Finally, a course that skips the theory and shows you how to actually use ChatGPT.

Go From ‘What Is This?’ to ‘Nailed It’
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Private Training

Need speed and clarity? Book a 1:1 or train your team...minus the overwhelm.

Talk to a Human Who Gets It
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Grab the Freebies

What’s in the box? Only the stuff we wish we had when we started.

Grab the Good Stuff → It’s Free

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Looking for Fractional COO or CTO Help?

If you’re looking for experienced fractional COO or CTO help, we offer that too.

But, it’s highly limited, high-impact, and reserved for businesses who are ready to implement fast and go deep.

Let’s talk if you’re:

  • Scaling but stuck in daily chaos

  • Managing a team with no operations or tech backbone

  • In need of a trusted systems co-pilot for the next 6–12 months

Tell Us What’s Not Working. -> Inquire About Availability

Trusted by solo founders, small teams, and nonprofit leaders.

Client Wins, In Their Words

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This course is a great way to quickly and easily learn about ChatGPT in easy to understand, self-paced lessons. Damien and Danielle have made AI approachable to people with no experience. The lessons give you the tools you need to explore on your own, I found myself spending extra time beyond the course requirements exploring what I had learned that day. I would highly recommend this course for anyone curious about AI but not sure how to get started. 

Jim B.

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Working with Thoughts Brewing over the past year has been an absolute game-changer. Year one was a whirlwind of growth and new challenges, but their consistent guidance, strategic insights, and unwavering support made all the difference. Their expertise helped us refine our branding, streamline operations, and find new ways to connect with our ideal clients. I’m incredibly grateful for their impact and excited to see what year two brings as we continue to grow with their advice and support! 

Samantha M.

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Damien was knowledgeable and inspiring. This was one of the most effective hours I have spent in a while and I am excited about using what I learned to become more efficient and structured. I appreciate the learning but also the genuine encouragement.

Barbara Lee V.

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Thank you, Damien! This was a helpful intro to AI and you made me feel like I didn't have any silly questions. I feel more confident to start using ChatGPT for my work to increase my productivity and efficiency

Kaylee B.

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Damien was fantastic in helping us navigate migrating our legacy and new Google Workspace accounts as well as getting our Google For Nonprofits merged.

Bethanie K.

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Damien was excellent to work with. He was extremely knowledgeable

Barry M.

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Damien was great to work with. He sent questions ahead of time to our team so he was prepared to answer our questions on specific topics. He provided real life examples.

Jennifer S.

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Damien listen to my questions and provided very clear and actionable steps that we can easily incorporate into our hiring process to assess technology skills of candidates. His background in IT and HR were a great fit for this project. We'd gladly work with him again on another project!

Breanne A.

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Their ChatGPT course was easy to follow, gave great examples and challenged you to think out of the box. This was a great course and very well thought out. I look forward to future learning. I enjoyed learning the basics. I'm not a very complex, the extra information after each section helped challenge my thought process.

Ginny P.

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Danielle is very professional, punctual, and strategic in approaching freelance work and helping clients. Strongly recommend!

Laura B.

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Danielle was great - fast, easy to work with, and patient with us when we needed to secure a few additional files for her work. Thank you, Danielle, for your time, skill & attention to detail!

Heather F.

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Damien was very knowledgeable and provided great insight into developing a project management system.

Kara W.

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Damien was very helpful and I now know how I'll get started using AI technology asap.

Debra R.

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Damien was absolutely fantastic in completing our mission, vision, values project for our nonprofit. His attention to detail and dedication to capturing our organization's essence was truly impressive. We are grateful for his expertise and highly recommend him!

LaToya R.

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Oh my gosh, it was amazing!!! Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to do this for us. I can’t tell you how excited everyone is. Thank you for being willing to continue answering questions for us in the future as well. Not that you would ever have a reason to be in Batavia, NY, but if you are I owe you oh so many drinks.

Gregory H.

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I appreciated Danielle and collaborating with her on the design project. We could not have gotten this project done without her.

Josue R.

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Danielle was incredibly patient with us as we navigated staffing changes during her project. She produced several fabulous designs for us to choose from. I would highly recommend her.

Fabi H.


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