Grant Whitmer · AI coach & consultant

I build with a team of AI agents every day. I'll teach your company to do the same.

I'm a former naval officer, a co-founder and board member of a nationwide lender, and the author of eight books. These days I build software, books and companies by directing AI, mostly by voice. Jolt brings that into your company, and it ends with leaders from your own ranks running it.

For owners and leaders of 20–500-person companies · Remote or on site · Anywhere in the world

Grant Whitmer, smiling, in a dark blazer outdoors on a sunny winter day
The workshop · last 7 days Counted October 20, 2026
905
commits shipped to my code
42
projects worked on, out of 168
35
website and app deploys
18/ 18
production services up right now

Counted from GitHub and Cloudflare every two hours; services are checked every five minutes by status.windyword.ai. Almost all of that code is written by AI agents I direct from plain terminal sessions. How the workshop runs →

The idea

You can't out-think it. You can learn to conduct it.

When you sit down with an AI, you're a child monarch who just inherited a kingdom, seated at a table of advisors who each know a thousand times what you know.

You'll never out-think them, and you don't need to. The skill is conducting them: knowing what to ask, what to hand off, and what to check. It's closer to running a good meeting or coaching a team than to programming, and most of it comes down to asking better questions.

Nobody is a virtuoso yet. The instrument is a few years old. The people and companies who practice now will have a long head start, and that's what I teach.

The whole idea, in one place →

Work with me

Three ways in

Most of my work is with companies that know they're behind and need the whole team moving, not just the two people who already love this stuff. I run every engagement myself.

The flagship · Jolt

Most consultants leave a dependency.
I leave leaders.

Jolt starts with a kickoff where everyone sets up their first working agent. Then come short daily leadership calls that taper as the habits stick, and company-wide sessions that carry the whole workforce. Along the way the standouts show themselves, often the people you'd least expect. I develop them and hand them the reins, and I phase out as they phase in.

How Jolt works →
From $12,500for a one-month pilot with one team. Three, six and twelve-month programs from $5,000 a month.
Talk it through first →

Travel is billed separately. Not sure which fits? Book the free call and I'll tell you honestly, including when the answer is "neither."

What you can check

No testimonials yet. Here's what there is.

This practice is young, and the named, here's-what-it-did-to-our-numbers client stories aren't in hand yet. I'd rather tell you that than fill this space with five-star quotes. Everything below you can open in another tab tonight.

Watch it

The workshop

Live counts of what my agents ship each week, and the status of every production service I run.

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Read it

Eight books

Each one written by voice with AI. That's the method I teach, so judge it by the results. Most cost a few dollars.

See the shelf →
Check the math

Sixteen papers

Open-access research from my institute, with the code beside it. Hand it to your most skeptical engineer.

Read on Zenodo ↗
Test me

Thirty minutes

Free. Bring the thing you're actually stuck on and find out in half an hour whether this is real.

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Be the first case study

Someone will be the first named story on this page. Being early gets you my full attention while the practice is small, and a rate that won't stay this low once there are results to point at. If you'd rather wait for proof, that's fair. If you'd rather be the proof, let's talk.

About

A few chapters

I grew up in rural Vermont playing violin and guitar by ear, and I've spent a good part of my life on a stage or in front of a room.

After two years in Eastern Europe, where I learned Hungarian, I went to the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a naval officer. I've coached wrestling at the Division I level, taught hundreds of people to play guitar, and co-founded companies, including a nationwide lender whose board I still sit on. I also founded The Windstorm Institute, an independent research institute, and Windstorm Labs, its engineering side.

Then the tools arrived and I threw myself in. I started building by voice: first Windy Word, a free dictation app, then books, then a whole set of software platforms. There were no manuals for any of it, so I learned by doing it every day. When friends started asking how, coaching them felt like the most natural thing in the world, and it grew from there.

Most of what I know, someone else taught me. I'm still learning this one every day too.

Why I work by voice →
Grant in a black blazer outside his home in winter, with one of his coonhounds at his feet
Winter, with one of the hounds.
Resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, and placed at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Officer-in-charge of MSV C-Champion, a special-operations vessel that carried Navy SEALs around in the dark.
On stage much of my life: the Beast, Joseph, the Pirate King.
I raise and compete with my own line of English coonhounds, descended from George Washington's old line.
Minored in Russian and Spanish at Annapolis; fluent in Hungarian.
I write, build and teach almost entirely by voice now.
A young Lieutenant Whitmer in body armor aboard a small boat off Kuwait at dusk
Kuwait, a lifetime ago.
Looking back over a boat's mounted gun at its wake, a second boat following in the distance
The daily commute, back then. Nobody who had it complains about traffic again.
Grant in uniform smiling from a small boat in a stilt-village waterway in Sitankai, Philippines
Sitankai, Philippines. Luckiest job in the Navy.

Books

Written by voice, with AI

I wrote every one of these by talking, conducting AI the same way I teach. If you want to know whether the method holds up, a book costs a few dollars and an evening.

God Is a Vibe Coder book cover
Start here · The method

God Is a Vibe Coder

The field manual behind everything I teach: the conductor's posture, the two chairs, and the ENCODE → BUILD → VERIFY → REPLICATE method for building anything with AI. If a boot camp fit in a book, this is it.

Read on Amazon →

Coming: Missing Friction and Donum Populi, Book One (fiction). Also in the works: IMPOSSIBLE, a screenplay with Rulon Gardner.

Book a call

Start with thirty minutes

The first call is free. Pick a time on the calendar, or tell me about a program and I'll reply myself, usually within a day.

A free 30-minute call

Bring the thing you're actually stuck on. Pick a time and you'll get a confirmation email; leave a phone number if you'd like me to call you. This booking page runs on Windy Calendar, which my agents and I built.

Programs, speaking & consulting

For Jolt, a boot camp, a keynote or anything bigger than an hour, tell me a little here. I'll reply personally from [email protected].

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The newsletter · weekly

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  • What it means for how work gets done, in plain language
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