Two weeks ago I did something that still makes me a little nervous.
I booked a room, put my name on the door, and told people to come watch me use AI live. No slides full of theory. One real job, built in front of them, on their own laptops.
Here is why I stopped waiting.
For months I have leaned on AI to do work I used to do by hand. The outreach. The scheduling. The back-office grind that used to eat my evenings. And it has burned me more than once. One task of mine ran hundreds of times looking perfectly healthy and produced nothing, because the source it pulled from had blocked it on day one and nothing failed loudly.
I did not learn that from a course. I learned it the way you learn anything real. You build one thing, you trust it too soon, and you watch it fail small enough that it costs you a weekend instead of a client.
That is the whole reason this workshop exists. Most people meet AI through a wall of tools and a lot of noise, and they either freeze or they get burned. The way through is not more reading. It is building one real thing, rough at first, with someone in the room who already made the expensive mistakes so you get to make the cheap ones.
One move to make this week, whether or not you can be there. Pick one job you do by hand that repeats every week, that you could write down for a new hire, and where an eighty-percent-right result is a quick fix and not a disaster. That is your first one. Start there.
And if you want to build it live, with me in the room: I am teaching AI Without Getting Burned on Thursday, July 30, 7 pm in Sandy. 90 minutes, in person. You leave with one real thing already working. There are a limited number of free seats, no card needed: catalystworks.consulting/ai-checklist
Three things before you go
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Boubacar
I spent over a decade in HR at a Fortune 100. Now I'm a fractional AI leader who helps small businesses put AI to work.
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