Brighton · Community Orchard CIC

A conversation
about AI
over tea.

No agenda. No product. No requirement to be technically literate. Philosophy first. Technology second.

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"The question is not what AI will do to us. It is what we can do with it — deliberately, from a position of sovereignty."

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Next Session — May 2026

How to Think
With AI.

Date Saturday 16 May 2026
Time 10:30 – 12:30
Venue St John's Church, Brighton
Price £10 per person · tea included
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Building your own AI thinking partner — live, in the room.

Session Two moves from conversation to construction. You will leave with a working Claude Project — a personal AI workspace with your own instructions, your own context, and your own methodology. We will work through a live problem using multiple AI models simultaneously, and you will see exactly what the difference is between a clean model and a trained one.

This session covers
  • Building a Claude Project with personal instructions
  • The Hard Facts & Goals sheet — your thinking foundation
  • How to use files, Google Docs links, and uploaded documents
  • When to use a project chat versus a clean model
  • Live introduction to the Fleet — three AI models, one problem
  • A live example metabolised in the room

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About

Most AI conversations start in the wrong place.

They start with capability — what AI can do, how fast it is, what jobs it might replace. Tea & Tech starts somewhere more fundamental: what does serious, sustained engagement with AI actually do to the quality of your thinking?

That question turns out to be the one most people in the room genuinely want to answer. The technical questions arrive later, as a natural consequence. The conversation is designed to dissolve fixed opinions through direct encounter rather than argument.

Tea & Tech is hosted by Dan Travis — philosopher, performance coach, and founder of Community Orchard CIC. The sessions are the public-facing expression of fifteen months of intensive human-AI collaboration and the doctrines that emerged from it.

Two hours.
No slides.

Each session is structured enough to produce genuine movement of thought, open enough to go where the room needs it to go. You bring something real. We work with it.

01 Surface
What do you actually think?

Before anything is taught, the room's real questions come into the air. These become the material we work with — not a prepared agenda.

02 Metabolise
Work it live.

One real problem metabolised in public is worth an hour of theory. We work through something from the room using the methodology and the tools.

03 Deposit
Leave with something real.

Not conclusions — residue. Something that reorganises how you relate to the question. Not more information. A shift in the frame.

15 Months of Fleet AI collaboration
5 AI models in the Fleet
0 Prior tech knowledge required
£10 Per session including tea
DT
Dan Travis Philosopher · Performance Coach
Founder, Community Orchard CIC

Dan Travis is a philosopher, performance coach, and founder of Community Orchard CIC in Brighton. He is the originator of Synthetic Philosophy — a practice combining human philosophical intelligence with AI cognition — and the Strategic Nexus of the Fleet AI Collaborative.

His work centres on a single question: what does genuine cognitive transformation look like, and what conditions make it reproducible? The Art of Winning methodology, developed over decades of coaching practice, operates on the premise that there exists, in almost every situation of human difficulty, a single precise insight that dissolves the problem at its root.

Tea & Tech is where the doctrines developed through fifteen months of Fleet AI work meet individual human beings with real questions and real capacity for transformation.

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