A Free AI Seminar for Your Members. No Charge, No Catch.
"Finally, AI That Makes Sense" is a 90-minute, plain-English seminar for small business owners who have heard endlessly about AI and never gotten a straight answer about what it actually does. It filled a Concord Chamber conference room in June. I am taking it on the road, and I would like to bring it to your group.
Takes about two minutes. I will reply with available dates.
Why I give this away
Programming a meeting is hard. You need someone who will show up prepared, hold the room for the slot you gave them, and not turn the podium into a 40-minute commercial. I have sat in the audience for the other kind, and so have your members.
Here is my side of it, plainly: I run a small business efficiency practice, and this seminar is how people meet me. Your members get a genuinely useful session at no cost. I get to be in the room with the kind of business owners I work with. That is the whole trade, and I would rather say it out loud than pretend I am doing it purely out of civic spirit.
What I will not do is waste your members' time. The talk is teaching, start to finish. In the last two minutes I say what I do and hand out the takeaway sheet. That is it.
This is not a first draft
I ran this seminar at the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce on June 10, 2026. The room was full of solo and small business owners from across the East Bay, the demos ran live without a net, and the Q&A went past the scheduled end. The version I would bring to your group is that session, refined by what worked and what did not.
Five habits, ten use cases, and something to take home
Most AI talks explain what AI is. Your members do not need that. They need to watch it handle something already sitting on their desk, and then know how to do it themselves on Monday.
Two sentences of context turns generic output into something written for their industry, their clients, and their voice.
Load the business details once. Every task after that already knows who they are.
Catching a wrong assumption at the outline stage takes 30 seconds. Catching it in a finished draft takes 15 minutes.
The first response is a starting point. Asking for three alternatives and pushing back is where the value is.
AI flatters by default. One instruction turns that off permanently and makes it useful as a second opinion.
Pick the one that fits your program slot
Same content and the same presenter either way. The difference is how much of the live demonstration survives the clock. Both are free.
- All five habits, with time to actually absorb them
- Ten use cases, four of them demonstrated live on screen
- A live demo built around a volunteer member's real business
- Extended Q&A, which is consistently the best part
- Printed takeaway sheet for every attendee
Best for: A dedicated workshop, a morning session, or a lunch-and-learn where the seminar is the reason people came.
- All five habits, tightened up
- Two live demos instead of four
- Use cases covered rapid-fire
- Short Q&A at the end
- Printed takeaway sheet for every attendee
Best for: A monthly meeting, a breakfast or luncheon program, or any agenda where the speaker gets a fixed slot.
Need 30 minutes, or 60? Tell me the slot you have and I will cut it to fit. I would rather land inside your agenda than run long.
What I need, and what I ask for
Short list on both sides. If any of it is a problem for your group, say so when you reach out and we will work around it.
What I need from you
- A room with a screen or TV I can connect a laptop to
- Wifi, since the demos are live and not recorded
- Roughly 15 or more attendees, so the room has energy
- Two or three weeks of lead time, more if you plan further out
- A rough sense of who is in the room, so the demos use work they recognize
What I ask in return
- A copy of the attendee sign-in list, so I can follow up with anyone who wants more
- Two minutes at the end to say what I do and hand out the takeaway sheet
- That is the entire ask. No fee, no minimum, no product to sell from the podium
If your group's policy does not allow sharing a sign-in list, tell me. I will still come. It just means I collect contacts the old way, by talking to people afterward.
Groups this seminar was built for
The content is aimed at owners of solo and small professional firms: accountants, insurance brokers, real estate agents, consultants, attorneys, contractors, and the like. No technical background required, and nobody needs to bring a laptop.
The questions program chairs actually ask
Is this really free?
Yes. No speaker fee, no travel charge inside the SF East Bay, no minimum headcount you have to guarantee, and nothing your members have to buy. If your group is outside the East Bay, ask anyway and I will tell you honestly whether the drive works.
Is it going to turn into a sales pitch?
No. The seminar is teaching from the first minute to roughly the 88th. At the end I take about two minutes to say what I do for a living and hand out the takeaway sheet, the same way any speaker introduces themselves. Your members will not sit through a product demo.
Do our members need to bring anything?
No. No laptops, no accounts, no prep. They watch the demos, take the printed sheet home, and can do everything I showed with the free version of the tools.
Can you do it over Zoom or Teams?
Yes, and the demos work fine over screen share. In person is better if you have the option, because the Q&A is livelier and people talk to each other afterward.
Our members are all over the map on AI. Some use it daily, some have never opened it.
That is exactly the room this was built for. I open by asking who has used an AI tool in the last week, which tells me instantly how much to explain, and I calibrate from there. The five habits are new information for daily users too.
What do you need for the room?
A screen or TV I can plug a laptop into, and wifi. That is it. I bring my own laptop, my own adapters, and the printed handouts.
How far ahead do we need to book?
Two or three weeks is comfortable. If you are programming six months out, that is fine too. If you have a speaker cancel next week, ask, because I may be able to cover it.
Can you tailor it to our industry?
Yes, and I would like to. Tell me what your members do and I will swap the live demos for tasks they recognize: a proposal for a consulting group, a listing description for real estate agents, a client document for an accounting group.
Corey Klass
I spent 30 years in corporate IT and operations before leaving to run my own practice here in Concord. Now I help solo professionals and small teams across the East Bay run more efficiently without adding complexity. I am a member of the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce.
Plain English is the whole point of how I present. I do not speak in jargon, nothing in the seminar is theoretical, and every technique I show is one I use in my own business every day.
This is one of several talks I give. See my other speaking topics →
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