What could your expertise become?
Expert Studio cohorts help experienced professionals turn career-developed judgment into products another person can use.
Explore the Founding CohortA guided build environment for turning experience into something usable.
You bring evidence from work: the decisions, adaptations, patterns, and judgment that experience has taught you. Together, we make that expertise visible and define the change it can help another person make.
Then you select the right product form, build the smallest honest version, and test it with a real person. The work moves from private instinct to observable evidence.
Founding cohort
Expert Studio Founding Cohort
From Invisible Instinct to Tested Transformation
An eight-week build experience, followed by a Week 9 Proof and Portability Lab, for experienced professionals developing their first expertise-based product.
- Live rhythm
- Five working sessions · Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
- Studio size
- 6–8 participants
- Founding enrollment
- $297
Leave with a tested product hypothesis and evidence for what to refine next.
View Founding CohortWhat you leave with
The goal is not to declare the product finished. The goal is to replace private assumptions with evidence.
- 01Expertise evidence record
- 02Transferable expertise map
- 03Customer transformation architecture
- 04Deliberately selected product format
- 05Early testable product experience
- 06Proof and Portability Record
About Shannon
Making expert knowledge usable.
Shannon D. Smith is the founder of Untrap Your Expertise. Her career has focused on making expert knowledge visible, understandable, and usable.
Her work is informed by instructional design, industrial-organizational psychology, expertise excavation, and transformation design.