In this hands-on 2-hour workshop, you'll learn how to build AI assistants and automations that can handle repetitive work across your business — from leads and customer communication to scheduling, marketing, admin, research, and operations.
No coding required. No AI experience required. Bring your laptop.
You've tried AI. Now put it to work.
If you've used ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or another AI tool, you've already seen what AI can do.
But there's a big difference between asking AI questions and having AI actually do work inside your business.
A March 2026 Goldman Sachs small-business survey found that 76% of surveyed small businesses were already using AI, but only 14% said AI was fully embedded into core operations.
That implementation gap is exactly what this workshop is designed to close.
This is not two hours of AI trends, slides, or “50 prompts you should try.” We're building.
Imagine adding these AI employees to your business
AI Receptionist
Answers calls, handles FAQs, captures leads, qualifies inquiries, books appointments, and follows up.
AI Executive Assistant
Helps manage your inbox, summarize conversations, prepare drafts, organize tasks, and support your calendar.
AI Sales Assistant
Researches leads, prepares personalized follow-up, captures information, and keeps your CRM updated.
AI Marketing Assistant
Helps create social content, emails, ads, offers, and marketing materials in your business voice.
AI Operations Assistant
Connects tools, moves information, creates tasks and documents, and alerts the right person when something needs attention.
The idea is not that you need five new people on payroll. These are examples of jobs you can give AI systems inside your business.
What you'll learn
1. Find the work AI should be doing for you
Learn how to identify repetitive, expensive, slow, or time-consuming work that may be a good candidate for AI or automation.
2. Build AI that understands your business
Learn how to give AI your business context — documents, FAQs, rules, services, processes, brand voice, and instructions.
3. Give AI access to your tools
See how AI can connect with things businesses already use, including:
- Calendars
- Forms
- CRM systems
- Spreadsheets
- Websites
- Phone systems
4. Build real workflows
Learn to think in terms of Trigger → Context → AI Decision → Action → Record → Follow-Up instead of just typing prompts into a chatbot.
5. Start building your first AI employee
Choose a real process from your business and start thinking through how it could become an AI-powered workflow.
Live builds you'll see
AI Receptionist
Call → AI conversation → Lead captured → Appointment → Follow-up
AI Lead Follow-Up
Inquiry → Context → Personalized response → CRM → Next action
AI Content Engine
One idea → Brand voice → Social content → Email → Ad variations
AI Operations Workflow
Incoming information → Analysis → Action → System update → Notification
The goal isn't to copy every demo
- “That could be automated.”
- “AI could handle that first step.”
- “Those two tools shouldn't require somebody to copy and paste between them.”
- “Why are we still doing that manually?”
The goal is for you to understand the building blocks so that you can walk back into your own business and start recognizing where AI belongs.
What you'll walk away with
- AI Employee Blueprint
- AI Workflow Library
- Small Business AI Stack Guide
- Prompt & Instruction Pack
- AI ROI Calculator
- AI Safety Checklist
- 30-Day AI Implementation Roadmap
- An optional 20-minute AI Business Audit
Who this is for
This workshop is for business owners, operators, managers, and team members who touch the day-to-day operations of a company.
That can include dental, healthcare, legal, real estate, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, contractors, home services, accounting, restaurants, retail, wellness, fitness, nonprofits, professional services, consulting, e-commerce, and more.
You do not need a technical background. If you regularly find yourself thinking, “There has to be a better way to do this,” this workshop is built for you.
What this is not
- Two hours of slides about “the future of AI”
- A ChatGPT prompt-writing class
- A coding bootcamp
- A list of 100 AI tools you have to figure out later
- An AI hype session
This is a practical workshop focused on real workflows, real business problems, and real implementation. Bring your laptop. We're building.
The bigger idea
The workshop is built around one simple shift. Most people are using AI like this: Human asks → AI answers. Useful. But limited.
What we want to show is AI inside a real workflow: Something happens → AI understands it → AI decides what should happen → Tools take action → The result gets recorded → Human steps in when needed.
That's when AI stops being something you occasionally use and starts becoming part of how your business operates.
The transformation
The real outcome isn't just “I learned four AI tools.” It's that afterward, you start looking at your business differently.
You begin noticing: Why are we doing this manually? Why does someone need to remember this every time? Why are we copying this information into three different places? Why does this customer have to wait until someone is available? Why does this process stop when the owner or employee gets busy?
That ability to spot where AI belongs is one of the most valuable things attendees should leave with.
Your first AI employee starts here.
- 2-hour hands-on workshop
- La Mesa / San Diego
- Bring your laptop
- Limited to 25–30 attendees
- $220 per seat
- No technical experience required
Bring one repetitive business problem. We'll show you how to start turning it into a system.
- Your business doesn't need more AI apps. It needs AI with a job.
- Don't add AI because it's trendy. Give it a job.
- Job first. Workflow second. Tools third.
- Bring your laptop. We're building.
- Turn repetitive work into systems.
Session details
- Date
- Thursday, September 24, 2026
- Time
- 9:00 AM PDT – 11:00 AM PDT
- Location
- La Mesa / San Diego · La Mesa, CA
- Capacity
- 30 attendees
Upcoming dates
- Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 9:00 AM PDT – 11:00 AM PDT
- Thursday, November 19, 2026 · 9:00 AM PST – 11:00 AM PST
- Thursday, December 17, 2026 · 9:00 AM PST – 11:00 AM PST
- Thursday, January 21, 2027 · 9:00 AM PST – 11:00 AM PST
- Thursday, February 18, 2027 · 9:00 AM PST – 11:00 AM PST
- Thursday, March 18, 2027 · 10:00 AM PDT – 12:00 PM PDT
Event hosts
Cyriac Zeh
Host & facilitator
Design engineer and AI product builder helping small teams ship practical systems without enterprise overhead.