# aNotioneer — Alex Sherwood, Notion Consulting Partner > Alex Sherwood (aNotioneer) is a full-time Notion Consulting Partner working with businesses and individuals worldwide. He builds custom Notion workspaces, makes them intelligent with AI (primarily Claude, including MCP integrations), and automates the busywork with the Notion API and custom code. Based in England, working globally. Certified Notion Consultant since 2021, with 250+ projects delivered, 8+ years using Notion day to day, and 50+ templates and guides built for the Notion community. Contact: alex@anotioneer.com · Book a call: https://cal.com/anotioneer ## Consulting services Alex works across three pillars — build a workspace, make it intelligent with AI, and support it over time. ### 1. Build your Notion workspace Custom-built systems designed around the way you work — project management, CRMs, OKR tracking, knowledge bases, client portals and full company operating systems. Modular databases and powerful dashboards your team will actually use. ### 2. Make it intelligent with AI (headline service) Turn a static workspace into one that answers questions: AI-powered semantic knowledge bases, meeting intelligence, natural-language search across your data, and Notion connected directly to Claude and other assistants via MCP. Build a team of AI assistants to collate weekly reports, prepare for meetings, triage tasks and maintain knowledge-base content. ### 3. Automate the busywork Auto-creating tasks and projects, syncing calendars and email, generating documents and reports — connecting Notion to the rest of your stack with Make, Zapier, the Notion API and custom code where it is worth it. ### 4. Custom apps & code-powered systems When Notion and no-code reach their limits: registration web apps, client portals, AI scoring engines and document/report generators, built on Vercel and Convex. ### 5. Train your team & keep you supported Onboarding, advanced training and workshops — plus ongoing support via blocks of hours, monthly retainers or sprints (usually two-weeks long), so the workspace keeps improving after launch. ## Notion + AI specialisation AI is built into systems where it earns its place — primarily with Claude — and used every day in Alex's own delivery: - AI-powered knowledge bases & semantic search — ask your workspace a question and get an answer; SOPs, client files and advisory content become instantly searchable in natural language. - Meeting & document intelligence — transcripts, notes and documents flow into Notion and get summarised, tagged and turned into action items automatically. - Integrate Notion with Claude (MCP) — connect Notion (and tools like Airtable) to Claude and other assistants, so you can query and update your content directly from the AI you already use. - AI-assisted delivery — pre-call research agents, Fireflies call capture and Claude-drafted requirements summaries mean faster scoping and lower cost. - Custom AI builds — bespoke AI products such as application-scoring engines, custom GPTs and AI-powered learning apps. ## How Alex works - Arranging a project: a free requirements-gathering call, then a written proposal listing the components and support. Usually a fixed price — if it takes longer than expected, you do not pay more. - Delivery: a kickoff call, an initial version of the system, review calls and revisions (plus automations), and a handover walkthrough with team training. - Ways to engage: fixed-price projects; sprints (a rolling backlog in weighted blocks, tracked in a shared client portal — the default for larger builds); and ongoing support via blocks of hours or a monthly retainer. ## Pricing - Hourly rate: £120 / hour - Workshops: £240 / hour - Sprints: £1,500–£2,500 each - Fixed-price projects: quoted from a proposal - Non-profits: ~20% discount ## Selected work - A wealth adviser (flagship AI): AI knowledge base + compliance querying for regulated financial planning — ~46,000 files migrated off Evernote. - A tech-first personal trainer & nutritionist (Claude + MCP): Airtable MCP for the Claude desktop app, so coaching transcripts can be queried directly in Claude. - A kids' media research agency (AI + GDPR): GDPR-compliant semantic search over qualitative research transcripts. - A global SaaS company (creative ops): a creative-operations system for the project-management team — sprints, briefs, capacity. - An open-source foundation (knowledge base): redesigned and publicly published their handbook on a custom domain. - An immersive theatre venue (custom code): from Make to a custom Vercel + Inngest scheduling engine, plus an on-site registration web app. - An automotive-parts distributor (scale): large event/class management — 13+ relational databases with role-based dashboards. - A community-energy non-profit (repeat client): project tracker, community CRM and a deeply relational solar asset-management system. Plus many more across accountancy, venture capital, marketing and creative agencies, healthcare, legal, recruitment, hospitality, e-commerce, education and non-profits — from solo founders to household-name brands. ## Approach Workspaces designed to be flexible (a modular structure of clearly defined databases), accessible (dashboards that surface tasks, calendar, sales and key numbers), automated (Notion automations, the API and custom code), and process-orientated (built around how you actually work). ## Key pages - [Home](https://anotioneer.com/): Services, approach, selected work and pricing. - [Templates](https://anotioneer.com/templates): 50+ Notion templates and setup guides. - [Blog](https://anotioneer.com/blog): Guides on Notion, automation and AI. - [Apps](https://anotioneer.com/apps): Apps built for Notion. - [Videos](https://anotioneer.com/videos): Video walkthroughs and guides. ## Blog posts - [Setting Up The Record Expenses Apple Shortcut](https://anotioneer.com/blog/setting-up-the-record-expenses-apple-shortcut.md): Record your payments, without opening Notion - [Setting Up The Medications Tracker](https://anotioneer.com/blog/setting-up-the-medications-tracker.md): Keep track of which supplements or medications you need to take and when you last took them, from an Apple Shortcut or by tapping an NFC Tag. - [Ask Siri What's On Your To-Do List](https://anotioneer.com/blog/ask-siri-whats-on-your-to-do-list.md): This Apple Shortcut lets you ask Siri for your to-do list or view it from your homescreen. You can filter out completed tasks and tasks that're due in more than X days. You can also choose a priority order for your tasks e.g. by due date or by priority. - [Adding To Your Shopping List From An Apple Shortcut](https://anotioneer.com/blog/adding-to-your-shopping-list-from-an-apple-shortcut.md): Add items to your Notion shopping list using Apple Shortcuts. - [Setting Up The Race Training Planner & Tracker](https://anotioneer.com/blog/setting-up-the-race-training-planner-tracker.md): Record your runs and track your progress towards getting ready for your next race with this Notion template and Apple Shortcut. - [Tracking Habits In Notion With Apple Shortcuts & NFC Tags](https://anotioneer.com/blog/tracking-habits-in-notion-with-apple-shortcuts-nfc-tags.md): Create entries for today's habits and mark them as complete from your homescreen, a widget or by tapping an NFC Tag. - [Setting Up The Save Fits In Notion Apple Shortcut](https://anotioneer.com/blog/setting-up-the-save-fits-in-notion-apple-shortcut.md): Set up an Apple Shortcut to save your outfits in Notion, using Dropbox. - [5 Reasons To Use Make Not Zapier For Your Notion Automations](https://anotioneer.com/blog/5-reasons-to-use-make-not-zapier-for-your-notion-automations.md): 5 reasons to use Make (previously known as Integromat), instead of Zapier for your Notion automations - [The Pros & Cons of using Notion as a CRM](https://anotioneer.com/blog/the-pros-cons-of-using-notion-as-a-crm.md): What to consider when choosing your CRM platform, including a comparison with using Google Sheets and Salesforce as your CRM. ## Featured templates A selection from the homepage — browse all at https://anotioneer.com/templates. - [Simple Project Management System | Notion Template](https://anotioneer.com/templates/simple-project-management-system-notion-template.md): This template is designed to serve as the foundation of your project management system, including all of the key components that you need for project management but simple enough to customise and connect with other parts of your workspace, to suit your workflows. - [Company Knowledge Base / SOPs | Notion Template](https://anotioneer.com/templates/company-knowledge-base-sops-notion-template.md): Publish guides, resources and SOPs for your team in this knowledge base template. The template has been built using Notion's wiki functionality, which helps your team keep your wiki content up to date. - [Advanced CRM | Notion Template](https://anotioneer.com/templates/advanced-crm-notion-template.md): This template replicates the type of 'relational' structure that you'd see in a traditional CRM like Salesforce. Although it has a lot less features than that sort of expensive software, this template contains all of the core functionality that you need to manage CRM as a small business, like me. Relational databases make managing your data and adding to your CRM system over time much easier. - [Company OKRs | Notion Template](https://anotioneer.com/templates/company-okrs-notion-template.md): This template is based on one of the original guides for creating OKRs, developed and made famous by Google. Objectives and Key Results are stored in the same database, giving you complete flexibility over how you record your company and team objectives, team and individual key results. - [Company Homepage | Notion Template](https://anotioneer.com/templates/company-homepage.md): Share announcements and highlight goals, key projects and resources in your company homepage. ## Optional - [Full text of every post and template](https://anotioneer.com/llms-full.txt): the whole corpus in one file.