AI for Small Business & Entrepreneurs

Workshop Sessions

• Foundations

  What AI actually is (myths busted), your first real conversation with an AI assistant.

• The Method

  A simple, repeatable framework for getting useful results, practiced on your own real work.

• Applying It

  Role-specific practice — writing, summarising, planning your actual tasks. Start building your personal prompt library.

• Judgment & Safety

  Checking AI’s work before you trust it, using AI responsibly with client or company data, final practical exercise.

Writing & Communication

• Writing Faster

  Emails, reports, and proposals in your own voice.

• Summarising & Research

  Turning long documents into clear takeaways.

• Planning & Organising

  Using AI to plan your week and projects alongside the tools you already use.

• Your System

  Assembling your own reusable prompt library and templates, final practical project.

Small Business & Freelancing

• Marketing on No Budget

  Content ideas, social posts, and ad copy.

• Customer Communication

  Drafting clear, professional replies for enquiries, complaints, and orders on WhatsApp and email — without sounding like a bot.

• Money Matters

  Simple bookkeeping habits, pricing help, and expense tracking with AI assistance.

• Growing the Business

  Writing a business plan section or funding proposal with AI help, final practical project.

Project Management with ClickUp

• ClickUp Fundamentals

  Setting up projects, tasks, and views that actually get used.

• AI Inside Your Workflow

  Using AI to draft tasks, summarise project updates, and keep documentation current.

• Automation

  Building simple ClickUp automations that remove repetitive admin work.

• Bringing It Together

  A real project template you’ll actually use, final practical project.

Teaching & Education

• Planning Faster

  Building lesson plans and schemes of work in a fraction of the usual time.

• Materials & Assessment

  Generating quizzes, worksheets, and rubrics tailored to your class.

• Reaching Every Learner

  Adapting the same lesson for different ability levels and learning styles.

• Marking & Feedback

  Using AI to speed up grading and write clearer, more useful feedback, final practical exercise.

Advanced AI Techniques with Claude

• Beyond the Basics

  Advanced prompting techniques for consistently sharper, more useful answers.

• Projects & Artifacts

  Setting up a Project with persistent context and instructions for work you repeat, and using Artifacts to generate documents, code, and visuals you can actually reuse.

• Claude Code, Practically

  A no-experience-needed look at how Claude can write and fix simple code and automate small technical tasks — useful even if you’ve never coded.

• Claude Cowork

  Using Claude’s Cowork feature to bring it into the documents, files, and tasks you already handle every day, so it becomes a real working habit, not a one-off demo.

Design & Creative Work

• Using an AI assistant for design ideation and iteration

• Other AI design tools worth knowing

• Speeding up mockups and concepts

• Where AI helps, and where your own eye still matters most

Video Production

• Scripting with AI assistance

• Turning an idea into short AI-generated video

• Editing and refining AI video output

• A realistic view of what today’s tools can and can’t do

Social Media & Content Creation

• Captions and post copy in your own brand voice

• Building a month of content in an afternoon

• Quick graphics and short video for posts

• Staying consistent without burning out

Writing & Editing

• Drafting faster without losing your voice

• Editing and tightening your own writing

• Research and fact-gathering with AI

• Avoiding the “obviously AI-written” trap

Audio & Music Production

• Generating original music with AI tools

• Voice, narration, and podcast editing basics

• Where AI-made audio works well, and where it doesn’t

• Practical use in ads, intros, and jingles

Presentations & Reporting

• Structuring a presentation people actually remember

• Building a deck in a fraction of the usual time

• Using AI for talking points and speaker notes

• Polishing a deck without losing your own voice

• Turning raw data into clear reports, faster

• Spotting trends without wading through spreadsheets by hand

• Simple, repeatable steps you can reuse every reporting cycle