How this came to be
I started in marketing — six years of brand strategy and client work after a marketing degree at Alabama. Then I retrained: a master's in applied psychology, 1,300 supervised clinical hours, and today I'm an associate marriage and family therapist running a full caseload in intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs for substance use and co-occurring disorders.
Inside the clinic I watched the same thing every day: the hour of therapy never changes, but translating it — into the right forms, the right fields, the format the payer wants — is where clinicians lose their evenings. The work is real; the translation is the tax. So I built Adaptli, an AI-native clinical operating system, around one rule that doesn't bend: the AI drafts, and a licensed human reviews and signs every word before it counts.
Then I noticed the same tax everywhere else. A tattoo artist's flash speaks for itself — but the website doesn't build itself. A family coach can sit with you in the hardest hour of your life — but she can't also be a web designer, a booking system, and a social media team. Every solo operator pays the translation tax on their own presence, and most pay it in the one currency they don't have: time.
Marqueai is the same rule, pointed at that problem. An engine does the plumbing — site, booking, content — and the human keeps the voice, the craft, and the final say on every word. The first builds were people I could look in the eye: a therapist, a vintage shop, a tattoo artist, and my mom, whose family-coaching practice went from an idea to a launched business in a day.
“AI drafts. Humans approve. That rule doesn't bend.”