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About / From Duluth

An advisor who works alongside you.

Kyle Dickinson, principal of Fieldcraft
Kyle Dickinson Principal, Fieldcraft

I am Kyle Dickinson. Fieldcraft brings together the work I have done as a business advisor and the experience of putting AI to use in organizations I help run.

I spent four years as a business advisor at the Entrepreneur Fund, working alongside nearly two hundred owners across northern Minnesota and Wisconsin as they started, grew, and handed off what they built. The work began with understanding the business, the people, and what they wanted to make possible.

Today I co-own a retail business in Duluth and hold a finance seat at a growing regional company. I have an MBA focused on IT project management, with a background in financial markets, retail operations, and small-business finance.

AI is part of my own working day. In the retail business, systems I built help prepare purchasing, marketing, and inventory work. The result is a starting point for a real decision, and a person approves it before it counts.

I started Fieldcraft because people could see the possibilities in AI but needed help connecting them to their own goals. Some needed a place to try it. Others needed guidance on what to do first or how to bring a team along.

That is the work of this practice: training for teams, consulting for the people who run something, and guidance on where AI belongs. I help you understand the possibilities, choose a useful direction, and put it into practice with your people.

I write and enforce the AI use policy for the businesses I operate. Clear expectations help people use the tools with confidence. The short version is in what never goes in.

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Why Duluth

From here on purpose.

Duluth sits at the head of Lake Superior, where the North Shore begins and the Boundary Waters lie an hour behind it: a working port with a million acres of wilderness at its back. People here run things: a store, a clinic, a crew, a county office. The region is connected enough that ideas move through real relationships, and varied enough to put a maker, an educator, a contractor, and a store owner at one table. A practice about judgment belongs in a place where judgment is the daily work.

Open Nights happen in Duluth. The rest of the work goes wherever the organization is.

What I will not do

Three things, in writing.

I will not sell you a fleet of agents. I will not promise an outcome.

And I will not use your data, your customers, or your story in anything public without your explicit yes.

01LearnHelp your people put AI to use 02BuildMake room for what comes next 03DecideChoose where AI belongs

Say hello

Start a conversation, or email kyle@fieldcraft.works.