Roger Newsome · Pops

I've been figuring this stuff out. Ask me what actually works.

I'm a grandfather and a thirty-year technologist, and for the last two years I've been doing the unglamorous work of finding out which AI promises hold up. Some do. Most need a person who's willing to test them. That's the job I took.

Find your door See what I'm testing

Pull up a chair. The coffee's already on.

Roger Newsome at his kitchen table, laptop open, notepad and coffee beside him

Start where you are

Three doors. Pick the one that sounds like you.

Everything I do sits behind one of these. I'm not going to make you guess which one you need — read the three sentences and walk through the one that fits.

Learn · LifeQuest AI

For me or my family

You want to actually use this stuff in your own life.

Courses, the Eight Levels, hands-on labs, and learning paths that start where you are — including at zero. Built for people who were told they were too late to this. You are not too late to this.

The Eight Levels, from first prompt to building your own tools
Live classes on recurring dates, plus the recordings
A dev track for people who want to build, not just use

Go to LifeQuest AI

Implement · GrowthPoint TechAI

For my business or organization

You need it working inside the business, not explained at it.

Microsoft 365 and AI consulting with an implementation bias. We scope the actual bottleneck, build the thing, and hand it over with your people able to run it.

M365 + Copilot rollouts that people actually adopt
Custom workflow and agent builds on tools you already pay for
Training the team so the work doesn't route back through a consultant

Go to GrowthPoint TechAI

Impact · iGrowth Foundation

Training that leads to real work — or hiring certified talent

Training only counts if somebody gets hired at the end of it.

We fund the training, certify the graduate, and place them with businesses that need the skill. Two doors here: walk through as someone who wants the work, or as a business ready to hire or sponsor.

Funded training tracks with a certification at the end
Placement with businesses that have already committed to hire
Sponsorship for companies who'd rather build talent than bid for it

Go to iGrowth Foundation

The Labs

Real experiments, honest results.

Not articles. Experiments — a question I actually had, a build I actually did, and what happened including the parts that didn't work.

A phone on a kitchen counter at dawn showing a plain text briefing beside a steaming mug

Running daily since March

Can AI run my morning briefing?

I wanted the first ten minutes of my day back. Not a dashboard — a briefing, the way a chief of staff would give it. Here's the build, and the three times it embarrassed me.

What actually happened Works, with a caveat. It's excellent at gathering and terrible at judging. I stopped asking it what mattered and started telling it what mattered.

→ The Chief of Staff build is in the LifeQuest dev track

Read the full write-up

All 4 labs

How this works

Do itDocument itTeach itProductize it

That loop is the whole business model. If I haven't done it myself, I don't teach it, and I certainly don't sell it.