Henry Gerlits.

AI Solutions Consultant

A teacher’s instinct.A builder’s tools.

I help teams turn AI ideas into useful tools and workflows—with the clarity, training and support to put them to work.

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From my travels · Jeju

Selected work

Systems built for real work.

I build bespoke tools and production environments around problems I know firsthand—from finding a memory to producing a course or carrying an AI workspace into a new project.

Illustration: Select, Shape, Caption — A clip ready for review
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Short-form production

Video clipping production suite

A production workflow that turns selected long-form material into vertical review clips.

Inside the system

Connects source intake, timed transcripts, clip selection, hooks, captions, rendering and quality review. Human selection and publication decisions remain part of the workflow.

Production tools & rendering pilot

Illustration: Instructions, Skills, Records — Carry the method forward
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Continuity & portability

AI workspace cloning & migration

Reusable structures for carrying an AI working environment into a new project or machine.

Inside the system

Preserves useful instructions, skills and operating methods while separating private history and project data. Backup, integrity checks and rebuild documentation make the handoff traceable.

Workspace architecture & tooling

Illustration: Context, Methods, Continuity — An assistant with context
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Personalized AI

AI workspaces built around the learner

Tailored workspace frameworks that give an AI assistant context, repeatable methods and a place to keep track of work.

Inside the system

Organizes project instructions, knowledge, task queues, work records and reusable skills around the person’s needs. Includes client setup and onboarding packages, with access and data boundaries defined for each project.

Workspace frameworks & setup packages

Illustration: Sources, Activities, Narration — Build · Review · Refine
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Learning production

Articulate Rise production environment

AI-assisted automation and reusable methods for producing interactive courses across multiple modules.

Inside the system

Connects source review, learning design, custom activities, narration, native Rise builds and quality checks. Reusable methods support multiple modules while keeping each project’s content and approvals separate.

Production environment

Illustration: Transcribe, Search, Compare — Evidence you can find
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Media intelligence

Video analysis suite

Tools for finding, understanding and comparing the useful material inside long recordings.

Inside the system

Combines transcription, searchable evidence, media inspection, version comparison and preflight checks. Produces structured analysis and editor handoffs that can be revisited and verified.

Analysis tools & workflows

Illustration: Script, Voice, Scenes — An editable video build
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Video learning

Powtoon production environment

A coordinated workflow for taking an instructional script through narration, scenes and an editable video build.

Inside the system

Brings together voice production, storyboards, reusable scene conventions, asset preparation and timing checks. Keeps the script, spoken words and on-screen meaning aligned through revisions.

Production environment

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A photograph from my archive · Jeju

Personal knowledge

Photo, video & diary archive

A searchable personal archive that connects dated writing with photographs and video metadata.

Inside the system

Imports diary entries, indexes media and uses visual descriptions to suggest relevant matches. Built to make a lifetime of scattered material easier to find again.

Local-first archive tool

Illustration: Observe, Annotate, Review — Find the next useful automation
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Workflow discovery

Workflow observation assistant

A local macOS tool for understanding how work happens and spotting repeated tasks worth automating.

Inside the system

Records app-switching and activity patterns, with optional screenshots and voice annotations. The system helps turn observations into specific workflow improvements; capture settings and exclusions remain under the user’s control.

Local macOS tool

A useful system brings the tools, the process and the human decisions together.

How I can help

Start with the work.
Build what helps.

A repetitive task, a promising idea, a team figuring out AI. We start there and make the next step practical.

01 / WORKFLOWS

Make recurring work easier.

Connect tools and information, reduce manual handoffs, and build repeatable workflows with clear checks along the way.

02 / PROTOTYPES

Put an idea in people’s hands.

Turn a loosely defined need into a working tool. Try it on real tasks, learn what matters, and refine it before expanding.

03 / ADOPTION

Help your team use it.

Translate unfamiliar technology into plain language, practical training and documentation people can return to.

Henry beside a stone marker on a wooded path in Enoshima.
From my travels · Enoshima, Japan

My story

Different tools.
The same instinct.

For 20 years, I helped people understand unfamiliar ideas. Today, I build AI solutions that make complicated work easier to do.

The thread connecting both: make it clear, make it useful, and help people move forward.

  1. 2005–2006 / Jeju, South Korea

    Start with understanding.

    A Fulbright teaching assignment began a career built around communication across languages and cultures.

  2. 2007–2016 / South Korea & Japan

    From teaching to training teachers.

    University classrooms and teacher training taught me to turn complex ideas into clear, practical learning.

  3. 2017–2018 / Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power

    Make expertise easier to share.

    Coaching engineers and senior managers brought that work into a technical business setting.

  4. 2018–2025 / Massachusetts & Texas

    Adapt to the people in front of you.

    New classrooms, remote learning and different learners reinforced the importance of meeting people where they are.

  5. August 2025–present / AI consulting

    Build the next useful thing.

    Now I bring that teaching instinct to AI workflows, working prototypes and tools teams can understand and use.

Let’s make something useful

What would you like
to make easier?

Tell me about the task, the bottleneck, or the idea. We can start with a conversation about what’s possible.

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