AI Salon PRESENTS w/ Special Guest: Diamando Stratakos

This month’s guest on The Salon PRESENTS is Diamando Stratakos — and she builds some of the most human-sounding AI systems you’ll ever encounter.
Diamando has never written a line of code. She’s a coach and former theater professional with 25+ years as an actor, director, and producer — and she designs AI systems, custom GPTs, and prompts that actually sound like the people using them.

Her work is radically voice-first. Not “talking into AI,” but thinking out loud away from screens — often walking through forests or ancient Greek olive groves — capturing the transcript, and then bringing that thinking to the tools. The human does the sensing, meaning-making, and storytelling. AI supports.

She helps people save 10+ hours a week, runs an AI membership for entrepreneurs, and hosts content creation retreats in Greece among 3,000-year-old trees. Everything she builds is grounded in intuition, narrative, and human agency.

The Salon PRESENTS happens on the first Tuesday of each month — a space to reconnect with what’s unfolding in the Salon, learn from guests doing real work, and stay close to the signal.

If you’re curious what AI looks like when the human stays firmly in the lead, this one’s for you.