# Yuyu Shen — Build with why

> AI advisory, fractional consulting, and workshops from Yuyu Shen, founder of Hopperlace. Focus: AI adoption, agents, and AI you can trust.

Yuyu Shen is an AI product leader (ex-Meta, Walmart, Beamery, Cleo) and founder of Hopperlace, which builds evaluation and orchestration infrastructure for AI systems that know when to act and when to defer. The site offers fractional/consulting engagements and hands-on workshops for teams getting practical with AI.

## Pages
- [Home](/): Bio, writing, and an intro to working with Yuyu.
- [Work with me](/consulting): Overview of consulting, fractional, and workshop offerings.
- [Consulting & fractional](/consulting/fractional): Deeper engagements — AI adoption, custom agents, internal strategy.
- [Workshops](/consulting/workshops): Half- and full-day workshops on agentic AI, prompting, and AI fundamentals.
- [Workshop companion — Agentic AI in Action](/workshop): Live playbook from the Pavilion April 2026 workshop: 8 prompting principles, the agent landscape, templates.

## Optional
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuyushen/)
- [Hopperlace](https://www.hopperlace.ai/)