Thank you for a great morning.
"Finally, AI That Makes Sense" happened on June 10, 2026 at the Concord Chamber of Commerce.
More than a dozen local business owners spent the morning with me, and they asked good questions the whole way through.
A roomful of curious business owners
I created this seminar for people who have heard plenty about AI and never gotten a plain answer about what it does. More than a dozen owners came. I worked through real tasks live on screen and took a lot of sharp questions, and a few people had the "oh, that's what this is for" moment I was hoping for.
The five techniques from the session
These habits decide whether AI turns into a tool you use every day or one you try once and abandon. If you were there, here they are again.
AI writes for a generic audience until you tell it otherwise. Give it a couple of sentences about your industry and your clients, plus a sample of your own writing, and it starts to sound like you.
Every new session starts from zero. Load your business details once; every task you run from that session already knows who you are.
For anything longer than a short email: ask for an outline first. Catching a wrong assumption at the plan stage takes 30 seconds. At the draft stage, it takes 15 minutes.
Treat the first answer as a draft. Ask for three alternatives, then ask what's wrong with each one. AI has no ego, so it'll tell you the problems you'd rather not hear.
AI flatters you by default. Tell it to be direct and to challenge your assumptions before it starts. Save that as a standing instruction once and most of the flattery goes away.
Two quick things
It takes about two minutes, and I use what you tell me to change the next session. Share your feedback →
If you only do one thing while it's fresh, set up a base chat with your business context (technique #2). It's a minute of work and it makes every answer after it better. Both ChatGPT and Claude are free to start.
Corey Klass
I'm a small business owner running my own practice in Concord. I spent 30 years in technology, including corporate IT and operations, which is how I know which AI tools are useful and which ones only look good in a demo. I use AI every day to run my own business, and I've spent the past year helping other small business owners figure out what's worth their time.
If this seminar was useful to you, the next step is to pick one task from your own list and have me fix it for a fixed price. That's Fix One Thing.
This seminar is now a bookable session: AI Training.
If this session was useful and you'd like your whole team to get the same five habits and live demos, I now run it as a private two-hour session for small business teams, in-person or virtual.
There will be more.
If there's one task eating your week, tell me about it in a free 20-minute chat. I'll tell you what it costs to fix before we hang up.