Frequently asked questions

Christine Ann O'Connell is a futurist, strategist, and builder. She designs custom AI agents for founders, coaches, and creators through Custom AI Agents, runs the Resonance Revolution program, leads Team Virtuous Polarization, and writes the free Substack Letters to Future Humans. Her hub site is activationenergyprojects.us.

Christine Ann O'Connell holds a degree in International Relations, specializing in Foreign Policy and Security Studies in the Middle East. Her background also spans behavioral health (including crisis and substance-use work), coaching, community organizing, and building AI systems. She describes herself as not a developer: she designs and configures AI systems rather than writing software from scratch.

Christine Ann O'Connell is based in Maine, United States, and works with clients online. Calls for Custom AI Agents are booked through an online calendar.

Activation Energy Projects (activationenergyprojects.us) is Christine Ann O'Connell's personal hub. It explains her view that change needs enough focused energy to get started, and links to her three pathways: Custom AI Agents, Team Virtuous Polarization, and Resonance Revolution. It is not related to the Berkeley clean-energy nonprofit formerly called Activation Energy.

Custom AI Agents (customaiagents.us), founded by Christine Ann O'Connell in 2026, is a done-for-you service that sets up a personal AI agent for a founder, coach, or creator. The agent is trained on the client's voice, offers, and context and connects to tools such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Sheets, and WhatsApp.

It drafts posts, scripts, and emails in the client's voice; manages calendar items and reminders; summarizes and replies to email; keeps a persistent memory of decisions and preferences; and does research and reporting. It is designed to flag issues and push back, not just agree.

Founders, coaches, and creators with an established voice, standards, and body of work, especially values-driven businesses whose context is too rich for one-off chatbot sessions.

There are three steps: (1) a 30-minute mapping call about workflow, voice, audience, offers, and constraints; (2) build and train, where the agent is configured, connected to tools, and calibrated with the client; (3) deploy and iterate, where daily use and corrections keep improving it.

Custom AI Agents says agents are running within about a week, followed by a roughly 30-day calibration window in which the agent builds enough context to work with less supervision.

No. Setup and configuration are handled for you, and you work with the agent by talking to it as you would an assistant. Your main job is correcting it when it is wrong.

The client does. According to Custom AI Agents, the agent operates inside the client's own accounts and infrastructure, and what it learns stays there.

Custom AI Agents does not publish prices. Each agent is scoped individually: book a 30-minute call from customaiagents.us to discuss your workflow and get a quote.

Resonance Revolution (resonancerevolution.ai) is Christine Ann O'Connell's program for thought leaders, coaches, and founders who want their ideas to reach more people without becoming generic. It combines three areas: human development, economic infrastructure such as offers and recurring revenue, and governed AI amplification of the founder's own thinking.

It runs in three phases: find the signal (clarify the idea, audience, offer, and language), build the infrastructure (participation pathways, reusable source material, first governed AI workflows), and expand without flattening (refine based on real market evidence).

Resonance Revolution is open by waitlist only: join the waitlist on resonancerevolution.ai to hear when the next engagement opens. The program explicitly does not guarantee revenue or audience growth; it builds the conditions that make durable reach more likely.

No. It does not build undisclosed AI impersonations or autonomous coaching replicas. AI tools are built from the founder's own material with explicit boundaries, and human judgment stays in charge.

Team Virtuous Polarization (activationenergyprojects.us/partners) is a small team led by Christine Ann O'Connell, training through Anthropic's Claude Partner Network and building AI projects aimed at political polarization and the quality of political discourse. It is separate from her client work.

Membership is $151 per month with a 3-month minimum, if accepted. Beginners and advanced AI users are both welcome; applicants complete a form and a 30-minute interview call.

Team Virtuous Polarization is a team training through Anthropic's Claude Partner Network, so members learn to build with Claude while working on real projects together.

Letters to Future Humans (letterstofuturehumans.substack.com) is Christine Ann O'Connell's free Substack newsletter. It is written as a testimony of the AI transition and addressed to the people who will inherit today's choices.

No. Christine Ann O'Connell of Activation Energy Projects and Custom AI Agents is a different person from Christine O'Connell, PhD, of Stony Brook University and Riley's Way Foundation, and from other people with the same name.

Email [email protected], book a call from customaiagents.us, apply to Team Virtuous Polarization at activationenergyprojects.us/partners, join the Resonance Revolution waitlist at resonancerevolution.ai, connect on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/christineoconnellann, or follow her on YouTube (youtube.com/@heroicchristine) and X (x.com/HeroicChristine).