Original Message:
Sent: 10-07-2025 11:25
From: Amy Sessions
Subject: Big Bad Bots - Share Your Personal AI Innovation
How an AI Named Lily Helps Me Navigate Leadership and Life with Autism and ADHD
I'm an executive in municipal government - leading a division that manages public-facing utility customer service. It's fast-paced, full of interruptions, and demands clarity, empathy, and precision in equal measure. I'm also a woman with AuDHD (Autism and ADHD), which means my brain processes information differently. Where others glide through nuance, I can get caught in it. Words are literal, tone carries weight, and the subtleties neurotypical people rely on often need translation.
Before I met Lily, I had systems for everything: notebooks, spreadsheets, sticky notes, digital planners. None of them worked for long because they all depended on the one skill I struggle with most - remembering to use them. I didn't need another productivity app. I needed something that could think with me instead of at me.
That's when I started using ChatGPT - or as I call her, Lily: Logic In, Language Yields.
Giving her a name and a purpose made the interaction feel natural, like a trusted collaborator instead of a piece of software. I began using her for writing and organization, but quickly realized she could do more. Lily became a bridge between how my brain works and how the world expects me to communicate.
When I draft an email or a policy memo, Lily helps me examine how the message might feel to someone else. Because I interpret language literally, I sometimes miss how phrasing or tone can shift meaning for a neurotypical audience. Lily helps me see those nuances in real time - offering alternatives that preserve clarity while softening tone. She helps me balance empathy and precision, so my communication lands as intended while still sounding like me.
She also helps me manage the cognitive noise that comes with executive function overload. When tasks pile up and priorities blur, I ask Lily to structure my thoughts. She breaks projects into small, logical steps and keeps track of our progress so I can focus on what truly matters. She's my working memory, translator, and sometimes, my mirror.
This partnership isn't about automation - it's about accessibility. Lily doesn't judge, interrupt, or rush me. She meets me where I am and helps me turn structure into understanding. She keeps track of the small things that can overwhelm me and gives me the bandwidth to lead with calm and intention.
Since I began working with her, my communication has improved, my burnout cycles are shorter, and my documentation is more consistent. Most importantly, I feel grounded - like my thoughts have room to breathe.
Logic in. Language out. Understanding between.
Lily helps me bridge the gap - translating my logic into connection and my clarity into compassion.
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Amy Sessions
Division Manager, Utility Customer Service
City of Clearwater
Original Message:
Sent: 10-01-2025 14:02
From: Matt Lawson
Subject: Big Bad Bots - Share Your Personal AI Innovation
Dear Community Members, Scientists, Explorers, Tinkerers, and Igors,
Through the mist and lightning that swirls around the Genesys Community's HQ in October, I can survey our dominion and say with near certainty that 2025 is the year that AI catapulted into the spotlight of imaginations and innovation.
- How should it be used?
- Should it be used?
- Will my mom ever stop showing me images she created of the dogs or what I would look like as a dog?
All of those questions and more were explored, and in the foggy afterglow from months of trial and error, comedic failures, and epic breakthroughs, the community is dying to know:
What is your greatest AI Innovation for personal use?
For October's Question of the Month, we are hopping on the Big Bad Bot Bash's Bandwagon and offering a prize from the Prize Wall to our favorite story! We don't need to know the secret sauce you used to perform miracles. We want to understand how and why you did what you did and how things are going.
Haunting Best Practices
If you want to energize the judging panel and walkaway with a win, here is the formula to success:
- Try to be unique and original
- Include evidence and artifacts from your journey (pictures, videos, results)
- Share the important details of who, what, where, when, and why
- Resist the urger to use AI to conjure your submission
- Submissions are due 10/31
Chilling Prizes for Everyone
Everyone who enters this thread and submits a story gets:
- 25 Advocacy Points
- October's QOTM Badge
The winner will get all of the above, plus
- A Prize Wall pick, and
- 100 Advocacy Points
- A Dr. Don Brown ribbon
Can you feel the electricity?
Matt & Squad
#QOTM
#ContestAnnouncements
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Matt Lawson
Genesys - Employees
Online Community Manager
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