About

I'm a strategist who builds what I design.

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01 — Who

I'm Evan Prout. I write about how organizations think, and help the ones that have adopted AI make better decisions with it, not just faster ones.

I've spent more than ten years across UX and UI design, front-end development and creative leadership, and I now bring all of it to strategy.

I started paying attention to how my own thinking changed depending on how I used AI. Some days it exposed a hole in my reasoning; other days it let me skip the reasoning altogether. Same tool, different me. Organizations have the same split, only it compounds across every decision they make.

Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan
02 — Why the background matters

Four disciplines.One way of working.

01
UX / UI design

I learned to design around how people actually behave, not how a process says they should.

02
Front-end development

I can build the tool, not just describe it.

03
Creative leadership

I've run the rooms where ideas get argued over and decided.

04
Strategy

Now I design those rooms on purpose.

03 — What I believe

Three linesfrom the essays.

04 — Start

Have a decision in front of you? Let's look at it.