Free community workshop · 90 minutes

Come and watch a real job get handed off.

An evening for owners of service businesses in Prescott-Russell and around Ottawa. A short talk about the two or three tasks eating everyone's week, one of them handed off live on the screen, and your questions answered in whichever language you ask them. No ticket, no card, and no pitch from the front of the room.

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In-person dates and venues are confirmed one session at a time. Leave your name and the details reach you by email first. The online edition below already has its date.

Online edition · Thursday, September 17

The same session, from your own desk.

Thursday, September 17 at 1:00pm Eastern. Ninety minutes, online, free. Bring one task that eats your evenings and watch it get handed off live on screen, in plain language, with your questions answered in English or in French. You leave knowing which of your jobs can run without you and roughly what that is worth in hours every week.

Save your seat for September 17

Registration confirms by email with the video link. Seats show live on the booking page.

Free

No ticket, no card, no fee at the door. Nothing to install and no laptop needed.

90 minutes

Doors to close, on the clock. You have a business to run in the morning.

Live

Nothing pre-recorded. A real task gets handed off on screen while the room watches.

Bilingual

English, French, or both. Your question gets answered in the language you asked it.

What actually happens

Ninety minutes, and one of them is you talking.

Nobody stands at the front explaining where the technology is going. The room names the jobs it is sick of doing, one of them gets handed off on the screen, and everyone leaves with their own number for what the rest would give back.

  1. 00:00

    Doors, and the sign-in sheet

    Coffee, a name on a sheet, and ten minutes of talking to whoever is standing next to you. Half the value of the room is the other people in it.

  2. 00:15

    The two or three tasks eating your week

    Short, and not about the technology. What actually repeats in a service business, why it repeats, and what it costs you in hours over a year.

  3. 00:30

    One real job, handed off live

    On the screen, nothing pre-recorded. A rambling voice note turned into a client-ready quote, or the inbox sorted before the first coffee. Whatever the room says it wants to see.

  4. 00:50

    Your questions

    In English or in French, answered in whichever the question arrived in. The ones about your business, not about where the industry is going.

  5. 01:15

    Done, and nobody is pitched

    You leave with the book, the recording of what you watched, and your own number for the week. If you want a closer look at your own business, that is yours to ask for.

How many hours this gives back depends on the job and on the person. The point of the evening is that you leave able to measure your own.

Who it is for

Owners of service businesses, mostly.

If your week goes to quotes, follow-ups, scheduling, and the same messages over and over, the evening is built around you. If it is all on site and never at a desk, it is not.

  • Trades and home services with an office or a dispatch desk
  • Clinics, practices, and anywhere with a front desk
  • Real estate, insurance, and mortgage offices
  • Bookkeeping, accounting, and small law practices
  • Shops, salons, and restaurants with an owner doing the admin
  • Anyone wanting a talk about where AI is heading
  • People looking for a coding class
  • Anyone hoping to be sold something from the stage

For chambers, BIAs, libraries, and business centres

Bring it to your members instead.

If you already programme sessions for local business owners, this slots straight into what you run. You bring the room and the audience, I bring the evening, and it stays free for everyone who walks in.

You provide

A room for 25 to 40, a screen or projector I can plug into, and the invitation to your members.

I provide

The session, the live demo, the handouts, and the follow-up for anyone who wants it.

Nobody pays

Not you, not your members. No fee to host, no ticket at the door, no sponsorship ask.

You get the credit

It runs under your banner as programming you arranged. That is the point.

Also happy to run a shorter version inside one company at lunchtime. That is the free lunch and learn, and it comes to your office.

Why it is free

Because this is how owners around here get to know me.

I have spent 30 years helping business owners save time with better technology, and I am a registered Anthropic partner. A room and ninety minutes is the shortest honest way to show what that looks like, and the people who want more afterward will say so without being asked.

If you do want a closer look at your own business after the evening, there is a free 15 minute conversation you can book yourself. Beyond that, the audit and the Skills Pack are priced openly on this site. Nothing waits behind the free room.

Save your spot

Tell me where to send the details.

Takes under a minute. You will get the date, the venue, and the parking before it goes anywhere public, and nothing else.

Which is it?

The jobs people name here are the ones I demo on the night.

Your email is for these sessions and nothing else, and you can leave any time.

Questions people ask

The short answers.

Is it actually free?

Yes. No ticket, no card, no fee at the door. I run these because it is how owners in this region get to know me, and that only works if nobody feels sold to.

Do I need to know anything about AI?

No. If you have never touched it, you are exactly the person I am talking to. Nobody is asked to install anything or open a laptop.

Will you pitch from the stage?

No. There is one line at the end about a free 15 minute conversation, and that is the whole of it. What I sell is priced openly on this site if you go looking.

Can I ask my question in French?

Always. Sessions run in English, in French, or in the mix the room speaks, and questions get answered in the language they arrive in.

Where and when is the next one?

Dates and venues are confirmed one session at a time. Leave your name below and the details reach you by email before they go anywhere else.

How long is it?

Ninety minutes, doors to close. You have a business to run in the morning and I intend to respect that.

I run a chamber, a BIA, or a business centre. Can you do one for our members?

Yes, and that is the version I would rather run. You bring the room and the audience, I bring the session, and it stays free for everyone who attends. Use the form below and choose the hosting option.

Between sessions, the free community is where the same conversation keeps going.