Freelancers using ChatGPT in Dallas

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Shawnte' Williams

A passionate Virtual Assistant based in the US

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A passionate Virtual Assistant based in the US

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Here's exactly what it looks like to work with me 👇 Hiring someone you've never worked with is a leap of faith... and honestly, most "hire me" posts don't help. They tell you what someone offers, not how it actually goes. So let me close that gap. Before we even start: a quick discovery conversation No commitment, no pressure. We talk through what's actually eating your time, what "support" would ideally look like for you, and whether I'm the right fit. If I'm not, I'll tell you and probably point you somewhere better. Week one: I get the lay of the land This isn't me disappearing into a task list. I ask questions about your tools, your workflow, your pet peeves, the thing you keep meaning to fix but haven't had time for. By the end of week one, I've usually already spotted at least one small inefficiency worth flagging. Ongoing: communication that doesn't require babysitting You'll get regular updates on what's moving, what's done, and what needs your input on a cadence we agree on upfront (daily check-in, weekly summary, whatever actually fits how you work). No mystery. No "what has she even been doing" moments. What "done" looks like Done means the task is complete and handed back in a way you can actually use labeled, organized, explained if needed. I don't consider something finished just because it's off my plate; it's finished when it's usable on yours. The honest part: I'm not going to pretend every project is flawless from day one. Systems get refined. But refinement happens through clear communication, not radio silence and that's the part I take seriously. If the biggest thing holding you back from hiring support is "but what am I actually getting into?" hopefully this answers it. 💬 Got a question about how this would work for your specific situation? Ask. I'd rather answer it now than have it be the reason you don't reach out.

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Running everything yourself was never meant to be permanent. Most founders and creators start out wearing every hat by necessity (such as answering emails late at night, rebuilding the same spreadsheet, chasing a follow-up between five other things.) It works, for a while. But at some point, the constraint on growth stops being the idea and starts being the hours in the day. The answer isn't to push harder. It's to understand the support options available because "assistant" isn't one job. It's a category, and that category has evolved. The support systems spectrum: three roles, three purposes Personal Assistant - Focused on your life outside of work: personal scheduling, errands, household logistics, travel for you and your family. A PA protects your personal time so you can show up fully when it's time to work. Executive/Administrative Assistant - Typically embedded within a company, supporting a specific leader or team: calendar and inbox management, meeting prep, internal coordination, travel booking, reporting. This model has long been the backbone of in-office business support, built around proximity and structure. Virtual Assistant - A flexible, remote evolution of both roles above. A VA can take on personal logistics, executive-level coordination, and business operations (often across time zones) on a schedule that flexes with your needs. It's not a smaller version of traditional support; it's a more adaptable structure for how businesses actually operate today. All three sit under the same umbrella (supporting people so they can focus on what matters most.) The difference is really about structure and flexibility, not value. VAs simply reflect where the workplace has moved: digital-first, remote-friendly, and built around outcomes rather than physical presence. Why Virtual Assistants matter more right now? Remote work reshaped how support gets structured, and a few things make VAs an especially strong fit today: Cost-efficiency: You pay for the hours and outcomes you need, without the overhead of a full-time in-house role. Scalability: Need more support during a launch and less the following month? A VA relationship can flex with you. Global talent access: You're not limited to your immediate area; you can find the right fit for the work. Speed: Many VA engagements can start within days rather than weeks. A quick note on misconceptions? There's sometimes an assumption that VAs only handle simple, low-stakes tasks. In practice, many VAs today manage meaningful, high-impact work, including: - Operations: process documentation, vendor coordination, project management across tools like Asana or Notion - Data: cleanup, reporting, dashboard maintenance - Customer support: client communication, onboarding, retention touchpoints - Content & admin support: scheduling, light copywriting, community management, launch coordination - Executive-level coordination: calendar and inbox management at the same level you'd expect from in-house support Who this is for? If you're a founder, creator, or professional who feels like there's more on your plate than hours in the day... you're far from alone, and it doesn't have to stay that way. Delegating isn't something you earn only after reaching a certain size. Often, it's part of how you get there. Looking ahead The future of work seems to be less about doing everything alone and more about building the right support around you. A Virtual Assistant isn't a replacement for what a PA or EA offers. It's simply a flexible option shaped for a remote, digital-first world. The real question worth sitting with: what would change if you had the right support in place?

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Day 2 on Contra: okay, let's actually talk 👇 I could open with "detail-oriented team player" and we'd both fall asleep before I finished typing it. So instead... Hi, I'm Shawnte, and I promise this is more interesting than a resume. Here's what I've noticed after 10+ years doing this work: most people in the admin/data space are great at one thing. Either they're the spreadsheet whisperer who disappears into the backend, or they're the client-facing charmer who couldn't tell you where the numbers actually live. I've never understood why those had to be separate people. On one hand: 🧠 The analyst side - I'm the person who has the data entry, calendar management, strategic planning, reporting, troubleshooting support, program & community coordination. I build the systems that keep chaos from becoming a crisis. 🎯 The creative-director side - I spent a decade as a fashion model and coach, which taught me how to walk into a room (or a Zoom call), read what's actually needed, and make people feel taken care of. Poise under pressure isn't a personality quirk of mine. It's a professional skill, and it shows up in how I handle clients. Fine print translation is you're not just getting a task-doer. You're getting someone who can spot the broken process and make the client-facing side of your business look as sharp as the backend runs.

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The Founder's Table: The Denise Okafor Story (Original Pilot) It's about a girl who had a dream of running her business. Grows up to land her dream job and loses it shortly after experience months of low volume in the restaurant. She, then, learns a new skill in data and reach out to restaurants to help them operate while they focus on scaling. She becomes a Virtual Assistant and is empowered to take on task. Season one follows Denise building "The Founder's Table" one restaurant at a time — each episode centered on a different owner in crisis (a family diner about to close, a chef drowning in inventory chaos, a restaurant group facing a PR disaster), with Denise diagnosing the real problem and rebuilding it from the inside out. Inspired by the case-driven structure of Law & Order: SVU, each episode functions as its own contained "case" while an underlying arc builds across the season: Denise confronting her own history in the industry that once let her go, deciding whether to stay a solo operator or build an agency, and eventually facing a client whose business mirrors the very restaurant that fired her. The series is grounded in a true story, giving it the weight of something that actually happened rather than a fictional rags-to-riches arc.

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AI QA, research & workflow analysis for teams using LLMs

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AI QA, research & workflow analysis for teams using LLMs

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Gated AI Workflow Design for Long-Form Research

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Research Architecture: Making a Complex Field Legible

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AI-Assisted Technical Diagnosis: Linux, VPN & Browser DNS

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LLM Evaluation & Error Analysis

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer | AI Engineer

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer | AI Engineer

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Healthcare AI System Development

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Multi-Agent AI Automation Platform Development

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CORE banking system Development

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Workflow Design for AI and Data Integration

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Creative Manager | Content Strategist | AI Avatar Specialist

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Creative Manager | Content Strategist | AI Avatar Specialist

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The Future of Content Creation I created Jen through expert AI prompting to showcase the future of content. Who is this for? Everyone! If you're a busy founder, brand, or creator, I can generate flawless, scalable video content for product demos, personal branding, and daily posting. The game changer: I can even create an AI character that looks just like you. So, when you don't have time or feel like filming, your content schedule doesn't skip a beat. I solve inconsistency and high production costs with expert AI generation. Let's create your digital double! #AIGenerativeContent #DigitalDouble #BeautyTech #ContentCreation

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Meet Skye, an AI Beauty influencer I created. The future of content creation isn't slowing down, it's expanding exponentially! As technology advances, the potential for new, innovative ways to create captivating visuals is limitless. Skye is a concept developed to explore the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the Beauty Industry. This project demonstrates my expertise in: - Digital Character Creation & Prompt Engineering -Future Proof Content Strategy (Scaling content without traditional logistics) -Brand Conceptualization in the AI Age I specialize in helping brands navigate and leverage these cutting edge technologies to create content that is scalable, innovative, and visually stunning. Looking to partner with beauty, tech, and forward thinking brands ready to define the next era of digital influence.

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A promotional video i just did for one of my clients annual star studded event!

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A travelvlog I did for one of my clients/

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I build AI tools that scale coaches without burning out.

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I build AI tools that scale coaches without burning out.

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Inner Architect was built for women that were raised to believe self autonomy should be punished, taking on the burdens of others is a necessity, and having needs is wrong. I built this tool to provide clarity to the women who are already living in a skewed version of life that comes at their own expense. I now use my skills to create chatbots and AI tools just like this for coaches and mentors. Having a tool like this in your offerings allows you to free up the time you would use answering your clients' questions and reading messages and give you peace of mind knowing your clients have access to your teachings even when you aren't available. Your time becomes yours again. The energy you would use messaging becomes more time to use with your family, yourself, and your business.

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For the last few months I've been building inside Alonna Elaine Coaching — taking her framework, her decisions around who's ready for a call and who isn't, and turning it into something that can hold that first conversation on its own. It's live. It qualifies leads, scores them, and hands Alonna a dashboard instead of a DM or email inbox she has to babysit. I take what a coach already knows and give it a place to live outside of her calendar. That's the actual work — not automation for automation's sake, translation turned into time freedom. I'm a business analytics professional by day and I build these by night. This is the first full one, and it's working. A coach's methodology just became a system that runs without her needing to be in the room. If your business can't run without you for a week — I'd love to how you can being the bottleneck in your business. https://dahliainbloom.replit.app/

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I built an AI assistant for a home daycare — here's what it does at 9pm on a Saturday... The owner runs a licensed home daycare in Sacramento. 14 kids, 4 staff, play-based curriculum, waitlist deep. She's incredible at what she does. But she was also answering the same parent questions at all hours — on weekends, after bedtime, during dinner. When you run a daycare out of your home, there's no front desk between you and the next "do you offer weekend care?" text. So I built Sunny😊 Sunny is a custom AI chatbot that lives on her website. It answers parent questions 24/7 using the owner's actual policies, her actual language, and her actual boundaries. Not generic daycare responses — her voice. 🧠 What Sunny handles: - Hours, tours, age range, curriculum, and waitlist signups - The full illness and exclusion policy — fever thresholds, lice exposure rules, pink eye return requirements — walked through conversationally, one question at a time - After-hours and weekend boundaries (warm but clear — no babysitting, no exceptions) - Address privacy — the home address is never shared until a tour is confirmed 💯 What Sunny doesn't do: - Quote pricing — every family gets a personalized rate from the owner directly - Make promises — anything requiring judgment gets flagged immediately - Pretend to be human — she identifies herself as Sunny, the daycare assistant 👍 What The owner gets: - An admin dashboard with every conversation, every flagged question, every waitlist signup - Email notifications the moment something needs her attention - A closed days manager she can update herself — holidays, vacations, staff days - A live prompt editor so she can adjust what Sunny says without touching code - Full ownership — the bot lives on her own account, not mine 🎉 The result: parents get instant answers. The owner gets her evenings back. Nothing falls through the cracks. Built with: Replit, OpenAI API, Wix integration, custom admin dashboard Timeline: 3 weeks from discovery to launch Client: Licensed home daycare, Sacramento CA

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Something I built is finally live in the world. For the last several months I've been quietly building Dahlia in Bloom — an AI consulting business that creates custom tools for female entrepreneurs who are done doing everything manually. Today the website is up. The services are real. The founding client pricing is open. What I do: I take a coach or consultant's methodology — the thing they've spent years developing — and build an AI system around it. One that handles client questions, qualifies leads, supports the client experience, and frees up the founder to actually live her life. I'm a business analytics professional by day and an AI builder by calling. I've already completed my first client build and I'm ready for what's next. If you work with coaches, run a service business, or know someone who is the bottleneck in their own business — I'd love to connect. <3 → dahliainbloom.replit.app (http://dahliainblm.com)

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Strategic UX Researcher via communications background

Strategic UX Researcher via communications background

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UX Research and Communications success

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Rapid Insights for People Management

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Strategic Research within EdTech

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Creative Director + AI Creative Technologist

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Creative Director + AI Creative Technologist

VÉRAI — AI-Powered Beauty Brand Campaign

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American Airlines — Creative Direction & Brand Execution

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Starbucks — AI Global Campaign & Cultural Storytelling

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Mccarthy Companies | Corby’s Portfolio

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Customer & Product Support Specialist | Billing Ops & CRM

Customer & Product Support Specialist | Billing Ops & CRM

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Integrating AI to Enhance Customer Support

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Customer and Product Support Specialist for Fintech & SaaS

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Efficient Product Onboarding for SaaS Solutions

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