Straight talk on life, leadership, and AI.
Keynotes, panels, podcasts, and workshops for city and county leaders, constitutional officers, government associations, business groups, lodges, and anyone who wants a clear plan instead of hype.
Three conversations to start with.
Each one can be tailored for a keynote, a panel, a podcast conversation, or a hands-on workshop.
Living Life by the Rule of Sevens
If you had seven years left, what would you do? Seven months? Seven days? Seven minutes? A personal framework for putting priorities in perspective, defining your legacy, and living with intention, at work and at home.
Takeaway: identify the relationships and work that deserve your time today.
AI in the Public Trust
How cities, counties, and constitutional offices can adopt AI responsibly: where it helps citizens and staff, where it does not belong, and how to stay accountable to the public while you do it.
Takeaway: a practical starting point for accountable AI adoption in a public office.
AI Independence: Don’t Build on Someone Else’s Land
Why public offices should never become captive to one AI vendor, and how to design for replaceability before cheap access turns into dependence.
Takeaway: questions to ask vendors about portability, context, and continuity.
Additional topics
AI Operating Control
A practical framework for leadership visibility, governance, routing, and cost discipline as AI spreads across every department.
Privacy Starts Before the Prompt
Your employees are not your AI privacy strategy. How to protect citizen data, records, and case files with policy and architecture, not just training.
The Agency That Agencies Use
Lessons from building a white label partner with 750+ agencies under contract: scaling through partners, confidentiality, and operational discipline.
1 + 1 = 3: Leading Through Debate
Building teams that argue productively, reach real consensus, and pivot before the market forces them to.
Where I fit best.
Audiences: city and county commissions and managers, constitutional officers and their staff, state and regional government associations, business owners and agency leaders, Masonic lodges, and community organizations.
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Short bio
Ken Knorr is the founder and CEO of Buildtelligence and That! Company. He helps municipalities, counties, and constitutional officers adopt AI without losing control, and shares a personal framework he calls the Rule of Sevens. Ken has been married to his wife, Tina, since 1988.
Full bio
Ken Knorr has worked in digital since 1996. After a career as an operations executive in homebuilding, he founded That! Company in 2007 with his wife, Tina, and built it into "the agency that agencies use," a white label partner with more than 750 agencies under contract. Today he leads Buildtelligence and ThinkFreely (thinkfreely.ai), helping municipalities, counties, and constitutional officers move from scattered AI experiments to governed, accountable AI adoption. He also publishes the Think Freely newsletter on Substack and hosted The Daily Drive Show. Outside of work, Ken is a Past Master of his Masonic lodge, a youth sports coach with more than 400 games coached (both of his children now coach, too), a woodworker who builds furniture, an avid fisherman, an astrophotographer, and the trainer of Gunny, a German Shepherd trained entirely in German. Ken and Tina have been married since 1988 and live in Central Florida. Their son, Mike, is Vice President of Marketing and Sales, and their daughter, L'ren, is a stay-at-home mom to Leo and Lily.
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