Practical AI for Small Business
The parts of the job that were never the business.
For the owner-operator who is the marketing department, the front desk, and the bookkeeper after close. No staff to delegate to, no time to learn a platform. This course assumes you have a phone, an email address, and about twenty minutes a day that are currently going to tasks you resent.
What it is
Six short lessons, each built around a job you already do after close: answering the inbox, handling reviews, getting a month of marketing done, writing the thing you keep putting off. Every lesson has real prompt text you can copy and ends with one thing to do tonight, with your own customers and your own words.
What it is not
It is not a tour of products, and it is not a case for putting a bot between you and your customers. Nothing in here sends anything on its own; you read every draft and you press send. People choose a small business because a person is behind it, and that is the one advantage worth protecting.
How to work through it
In order, one lesson a day if you can. Lesson 1 builds a short block about your business that every later lesson assumes you have. Keep one note open on your phone and paste things into it as you go. By the end you will have four small files and a twenty-minute weekly routine, rather than a set of notes you never open again.
By the end
- you can name the three hours a week AI can give back to you, specifically, for your kind of business
- you can answer inquiries, reviews, and routine customer email in your own voice at a fraction of the time
- you can produce a month of posts, menus, or promotions from one afternoon's input
- you can decide what never goes into a tool: customer data, pricing logic, the things that are the business
Lessons
- 01The inbox: inquiries, quotes, and follow-ups
Answer the same six questions in your own voice in a fraction of the time, with you still pressing send.
free · 20 min - 02Reviews and reputation, without losing a night's sleep
A calm, honest reply to the good ones and the bad ones, written in ten minutes instead of stewed over until midnight.
subscribers · 20 min - 03A month of marketing in an afternoon
One good context block plus one honest hour of your own material turns into four weeks of posts, emails, and promotions you would actually put your name on.
subscribers · 25 min - 04The back office, and the thing you keep putting off
Job ads, policies, vendor letters, and the awkward paperwork — drafted in minutes so the delay stops costing you.
subscribers · 20 min - 05What stays out
Customer records, pricing logic, and the parts of the business that are the business — the line, and how to work right up to it.
subscribers · 20 min - 06The weekly twenty minutes
A routine small enough to survive your busiest season, and the one question that keeps it honest.
subscribers · 25 min