AI is the easy part. Judgement isn't.

Leverage AI for the work only you can do.

1:1 coaching, on-demand calls, and a battle-tested Chief of Staff system — for the leaders making the decisions only they sit in front of.

The goal: systems that do the work for you. I help you unlock them.

We'll look at one real decision you're sitting on. No deck, no pitch.

Lukas Benes

What you get

Four things. Built around your week, not a curriculum.

Coaching that sits where the actual work happens — your calendar, your inbox, your team, your decisions. Not a course you fit in on Saturday.

01

One-to-one coaching

Weekly 60-minute working sessions, recorded, with clear next actions. Built around the decisions you are actually making this quarter — not a generic AI curriculum. By the end of every call you have something to ship, not something to read.

02

On-demand support, all week

Stuck mid-week, prepping for a hard meeting, debating whether to send an email? Text or Slack me. Response inside two hours during the working day, with a real call inside the same day if you need one.

03

A curated library of what works

Every pattern that survives real use, written down — prompts, workflows, agents, integrations. The signal, not the LinkedIn noise. New material added weekly; everything you have access to was used in the wild first.

04

Your personal Chief of Staff

The same Chief of Staff system I run daily at Groupon — wired into your calendar, inbox, docs, and team ops. You leave with it running, not slides about it. Detailed below.

A closer look

Inside the personal Chief of Staff setup.

A generic ChatGPT is the same on day one and day one hundred. The system we build together compounds — it learns your voice, your priorities, your team, your style. After ninety days it would feel strange to lead without it.

01 — Capability stack

The day-one foundations

Mail triage that understands your priorities. A calendar that defends your focus blocks. Document drafting in your voice. Cross-tool search across Slack, Gmail, Drive, Linear, and your CRM — one query. Meeting prep auto-assembled the night before.

02 — Feedback loop

An AI that compounds

Every interaction trains the system on what works for you. The third draft is better than the second. The tenth is better than the third. After three months your AI knows your voice and your team better than any new hire would in a year — and unlike a new hire, it doesn't quit.

03 — Custom AI skills

Encoded once, reused forever

When we find a pattern in your work, we encode it as a reusable skill. "Analyze a candidate's resume against our rubric." "Generate the Q3 board update from these inputs." Every skill is yours forever — and shareable with your team.

Chief of Staff your operating system

04 — Repeatable work

Workflows you supervise, not execute

The four-hour tasks you run ten times a year — weekly metrics review, hiring screens, board updates, escalation triage, OKR rollup — become workflows you supervise. Twenty minutes of your time replaces four hours.

05 — Specialist agents

Workers, not chat windows

Specialists that hold context across days and weeks. An ops analyst watching your dashboards. An inbox triager. A meeting-prep agent. A personal CFO tracking your team budget. They run while you sleep; you wake up to the digest.

06 — Change management

For the humans in the loop

The technology is the easy part. Getting your team to actually use it — and trust it — is where most AI rollouts die quietly. What to introduce when, how to handle the skeptic on your staff, what "good" looks like at 30, 60, 90 days.

07 — Security & access

The conversation with IT

Getting AI tools talking to Calendar, Gmail, Drive, Slack, your CRM — without compromising security. OAuth scopes, API tokens, MFA, data residency, audit logs. Done right the first time, and explained to IT and legal in a language that lets them say yes.

From basic AI chat to autonomous workflows.

From Chat to Agent: The Evolution of Autonomous AI Workflows — six-level progression

Why this coach, why now

I built this for myself first.

I lead GTM Strategy & Operations at Groupon — currently Chicago, previously Prague. I built the Chief of Staff system you'll get because I needed it myself. The patterns in the library aren't theory:

Deal alerting across 330,000 live deals with $100K in quarterly direct attribution. Market analysis cut from 40 to 8 hours per category. Automated reporting that saves 20 managers 15 min/day, built on Claude Code and GitHub. A capitalization process tracking $100M+ in annual engineering labor that passed a Deloitte audit with zero major findings and 99.92% reconciliation accuracy. Every pattern in the library was used in production first.

And it isn't just my own playbook. Over the last year I've coached ten Groupon colleagues through putting AI into their day-to-day workflows and run internal AI webinars across multiple teams. The patterns survive deployment — and they survive the rollout to the next ten people who weren't there for the build.


How we start, week by week

Setup, then one new thing every week.

Week one is setup. We get the foundation in place: access to your tools, the first agent connected to your calendar and inbox, the first repeatable workflow encoded. Boring, fast, done.

Then every week we add one thing together — one automation, one skill, one workflow, one agent. Small enough to ship inside the working hour. By month three, your AI has a hundred small pieces of you in it, and you have a hundred fewer things to start by hand.

Coaching is one-to-one and selective. We start with a 30-minute working call to find out if it's a fit — and to look at one real decision you're sitting on this week — before either of us commits.

The cadence

What a week looks like.

Coaching that holds its shape. You always know what's next — and what to bring.

Monday

60-minute working session

One real decision or project on the table. We build, prototype, or pressure-test it live — not talk about it. Session is recorded; you leave with a working artifact and a clear next action.

Tuesday — Thursday

On-demand support

Text, Slack, or email me. Sub-two-hour response during working hours. Real call inside the same day if the question is bigger than a paragraph. The mid-week problem doesn't wait for next Monday.

Friday

Written recap + next-week prep

A short written summary of what we shipped, what's still open, and what we'll tackle next Monday. Sent before the weekend so you can come back focused, not catching up.

A pause before the rest

Still curious? Let's spend thirty minutes on one decision.

No deck. No pitch. We pick something real you're sitting on, work it down to a defensible call by the end of the hour, and figure out fit while we're at it.

Book the working call

What changes

Ninety days in.

Outcomes shaped by where you start, but the precedents are real — pulled from the system running at Groupon today.

Hours reclaimed per week, over 90 days

Time you stop spending on rituals you used to run by hand
12h 8h 4h 0h Wk 1 Wk 4 Wk 6 Wk 9 Wk 12 ~10 hrs/wk

Illustrative shape; actual reclaim curve depends on which rituals we automate first. Setup happens in weeks 1–2; compounding accelerates from week 4 once the system has enough context.

5–10 hrs / week reclaimed

Stop starting weekly rituals by hand.

The metrics review, the inbox triage, the meeting prep, the status update — whatever you do every week becomes a workflow you supervise. You're editing, not writing from scratch.

Precedent: the market-analysis system I built cut category analysis from 40 hours to 8. The Groupon reporting system saves 20 managers 15 min/day.

Bottleneck → leverage

Drafts ready before you open them.

Decision memos, board updates, performance reviews, hard emails — produced in your voice while you sleep. By month three the system delivers most artifacts to your inbox already 80% there.

Precedent: reporting cycles cut from 2 hours to 15 minutes using AI tools (Groupon Transformation, 2024).

Search box → teammate

Specialists holding context for weeks.

Not chat windows. Agents — an inbox triager, a meeting-prep agent, a pricing analyst, a personal CFO — that know your team, your priorities, your style, and your last twelve weeks.

Precedent: deal alerting across 330,000 live deals, 10 alert types, $100K quarterly direct attribution.

One hard call / week

The decision you've been putting off.

The shape of every Monday session: pick the decision you've been deferring, work it down to a defensible call by the end of the hour. By month three you have a track record of moving on the hard ones — not the easy ones.

Precedent: $10M+ in expansion opportunities identified via an analysis framework built end-to-end with AI (Groupon GTM, 2025).

A few outcomes

What leaders walk away with.

Every engagement is shaped by what you're working on, but the artifacts repeat. Here are the things leaders typically have running by month three.

A weekly executive brief that writes itself

Calendar, inbox, dashboards, and team updates collapsed into a single Monday-morning document. Used as the basis for staff meetings. Built once, runs forever.

A personal Chief of Staff agent

Triages mail, drafts replies in your voice, flags what needs you, holds the line on what doesn't. Runs on your machine, your accounts, your rules.

A meeting-prep system

For every meeting on tomorrow's calendar: the relevant context, the open threads, the last-told story, the question you should walk in asking. Ready before your coffee.

A decision archive

Every meaningful decision you make, captured with the reasoning at the time. Searchable. Becomes the institutional memory most leaders never have.

Specialist agents for your function

An ops analyst. A pricing strategist. A writer-in-your-voice. A meeting facilitator. Built around the actual work you do, not the generic LinkedIn version.

Common questions

A few things worth asking up front.

How is this different from a typical AI tools course?

A course gives you skills you might use. Coaching gives you a system that's already running, configured around the decisions you're actually making this quarter. Courses scale; this doesn't, and that's the point.

What if I'm not technical?

Most leaders I work with aren't. The Chief of Staff setup is on me — you don't write code, you make decisions. You'll come out understanding the architecture well enough to maintain and extend it, but I do the building.

How much of my time will this take, weekly?

One 60-minute working session plus whatever you choose to send me during the week. By design, the system reclaims more time than the coaching takes by month two. If it doesn't, we change something.

What tools do I need? Will my company allow this?

We work with whatever you have — Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Notion, Linear, your CRM. The security and access conversation with IT is part of the setup. Most teams approve faster than expected once they see the architecture, the OAuth scopes, and the audit trail.

Is this a fit if I'm not at a Groupon-scale company?

The patterns transfer. They were built for me — one operator — before being deployed across teams. The scale on the page is to show that they survive scale; the practice itself is one person at a time. If you make decisions in a job with real stakes, it works.

From people who've worked through it

What the system feels like to live with.

Lukas helped me build the exact workflow I'd been trying to design for months. We went from "I should probably automate this" to a working system in two sessions — and the system still runs eight months later, with me adding to it, not babysitting it.
PM Preethi Manjunath Senior Product Manager, Groupon
Before working with Lukas I used AI like a slightly smarter Google. Now it drafts my weekly review, screens my inbox, and runs the prep for every cross-functional meeting I'm in. He doesn't sell tools. He builds you a working system.
LL Laura Leang Marketing Lead, Groupon
Most AI advice I'd had was either too abstract or too tooly. Lukas treats it as a leadership problem — how do you decide what's worth your time, given what AI can now do. The system we built reshaped how I run my Monday.
JK Jiří Kratochvíl Founder & CEO, Prague tech
I'm not a fast adopter. Lukas's coaching is the first AI thing I've done where the working session itself delivers something I take to a real meeting the next day. Three months in, I run my function on a Chief of Staff agent I trust.
TN Tomáš Novák VP Operations, Central Europe

Before you book

What you're signing up for.

01
Format
1:1 weekly working session + on-demand support, all week.
02
Length
Typically 3 months. Renewable. No long-tail contract.
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For
Leaders making real decisions in real organizations.
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Not for
People looking for a generic AI tools tour.
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First step
A 30-minute working call. No deck, no pitch.
Then
If it's a fit, we start the following Monday.

Book a 30-minute working call.

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