Your AI, On Your Computer
Bring your laptop. Leave with it set up and working.
Most AI advice stops at "try ChatGPT." This is the next part: the app installed on your own machine, loaded with your business, and pointed at your own files. You do the typing. I walk the room.
What you leave with
A working setup on the laptop you carried in, and it'll have done something useful for you before you leave the room.
What you need to bring
You'll be working the whole time. If any of the following isn't true on the day, you'll be watching instead of doing, and that's a waste of your money.
- A laptop you can install software on. Mac or Windows both fine. If it's a work laptop managed by an employer's IT department, installs are often blocked - check before you register.
- Your laptop password, and your Apple ID or Microsoft account password. Installing asks for them. Nobody remembers them under pressure. Write them down beforehand.
- A paid Claude or ChatGPT account. About $20 a month. The file-and-context features this workshop sets up aren't on the free tiers, so a free account means you'll leave without the main thing you came for. Get it before October 20 - signing up on the room's wifi eats time you paid for.
- One real file or folder from your business, saved on your laptop. A contract, a policy, a pile of client notes, a messy spreadsheet. Something you'd genuinely like handled. Paper doesn't work here; if it only exists on paper, scan or photograph it first.
- A charged battery. There are not ten outlets.
To be plain about the cost: the seat is $79, and the subscription is roughly $20/month on top of that, paid to Claude or OpenAI, not to me. I'd rather you know that now than find out in the room.
How the morning runs
Ten people, one room, one helper on the floor besides me. Small on purpose - installs go wrong, and at thirty people that stops being fixable. Coffee and something homemade to eat, so nobody is running on empty by eleven.
Everyone downloads and signs in. We sort out the machines that fight back before anyone falls behind. Budget the first half hour for this and it stops being stressful.
We build your context document together, from your own website and your own writing, and save it where the app will use it every time. This part is identical whichever app you chose.
The working-relationship instructions that stop it agreeing with everything you say. You'll notice the difference in the next answer it gives you.
The step that separates a desktop app from a browser tab. Claude and ChatGPT do this differently, so we split the room here and each side gets its own step sheet.
The document you brought. Start to finish, on your machine, with me looking over your shoulder if you want. Then we talk about what you'd point it at next.
We set up a single task that goes off on a timer and does the job without you sitting there. You'll watch it run before you leave. This is the last fifteen minutes, once everything else is solid.
Who this is for
Cancellations and refunds
Ten seats means an empty one is hard to fill late, so I stick to the refund deadline. The whole policy is below, in plain terms, before you spend anything.
- Cancel by Tuesday, October 13 and you get a full refund. No form and no reason needed. Email me and it's done.
- Send someone else instead, any time. If you can't make it but somebody in your business can, tell me their name and the seat is theirs. That works right up to the morning of the workshop.
- After October 13 the seat isn't refundable. With only ten of them there isn't time to fill an empty one that late. You can still send a substitute, and if there's another workshop scheduled I'll move your seat to it.
- Turning up without a paid Claude or ChatGPT account isn't grounds for a refund. It's listed above in what to bring. You can upgrade in the room in about five minutes if you have a card on you, but it comes out of your own session time.
- If I cancel, you get all of it back. Straight away, and you'll hear from me the moment I know.
Questions about any of this before you book? Email [email protected] or call 925-705-5083.
The next step is one task, not more training.
Once your AI is set up, pick one task from your own list and I'll fix it for a fixed price.
Fix One Thing. You name the task that eats your week, and I fix it inside the software you already use: $350 for about an afternoon's work, $750 for about a week. If it isn't fixed and working when I'm done, you don't pay. See Fix One Thing →
What Can We Cancel. If your software bills have crept up, I list every subscription and contract you pay for and cancel what you approve, for $300. If it doesn't find at least $900 a year in savings, you get a full refund. See What Can We Cancel →
Both start with a free 20-minute chat.
Register
Early-bird: $79 through Monday, October 12. It goes to $99 after that. Ten seats either way.
You'll be taken to Stripe to pay. Your seat is held once payment goes through, and your confirmation arrives immediately after.