Real working sessions, real Lakeville rooms.
Small groups. Mixed audience — owners, operators, enterprise teams. Plain English, real questions, honest answers. Coffee on the table. No webinars, no decks, no pitches.
Date being scheduled. Sign up to know first.
We're locking in the first venue and date right now. Members on the list will hear once — one short email with the date, location, and topic. Then you decide whether it fits your week.
No drip campaign. No pre-registration deposits. No "limited seats!" manipulation. Either it fits your schedule or it doesn't, and either is fine.
It's a conversation, not a presentation.
Format
A room with 8–20 people. One topic. Real questions from people in the room. Jan and any guest practitioners facilitate — we don't lecture. The whole point is for owners and operators to learn from each other with us in the middle helping translate.
Length
About 90 minutes of structured conversation. Then 30–60 minutes of stay-after-and-keep-talking, for whoever wants to. The stay-after is often where the best questions come out.
For who
Anyone running or working in a south-metro business who has AI questions they actually need answered. Owners, operators, managers, enterprise team leads, the person who got handed "figure out AI" on a Thursday. Mixed audience is the point.
What you leave with
One clearer answer than you walked in with. Sometimes a specific next step. Often a couple of phone numbers from other owners working on the same thing. Always: the community got a little bigger.
The same six beats, every time.
Coffee + introductions (15 min)
Name, what you do, the one AI question you brought. That's your ticket to the room. No business pitches, no LinkedIn handles.
The topic (20 min)
Jan walks through the topic in plain English — concrete examples, what works, what backfires. No slides. Just a whiteboard and the people in the room.
Owner cases (30 min)
Two or three people in the room share their specific situation. The rest of us help them work through it. This is where everyone learns the most.
Open Q&A (15 min)
Anything goes. The questions people were nervous to ask in front of the room earlier usually come out here. We get to all of them.
What to try this week (10 min)
One small experiment each person can run before the next session. Sticky-note sized. If you've got nothing by next time, that's a useful answer too.
Stay-after (open-ended)
People migrate to small groups. The harder questions come out. Real connections happen. Sometimes this is where someone realizes they need a 1:1 follow-up — and that's an easy conversation, not a sales pitch.
Honest answers to the questions every owner is quietly Googling.
Each session picks one topic. The list grows as the community asks for things. The starting set:
- Customer support with AI. Where it helps, where it backfires, what stays human.
- Hiring + HR with AI. Resume screening, scheduling, policy drafts — what's safe to hand off.
- Pricing + quoting with AI. Faster proposals without losing your judgment.
- Data + risk. What's safe to paste into ChatGPT? Where's the line for your industry?
- Vendor choices. Cutting through the AI-sales-pitch fog. What's worth paying for.
- Build your own. The DO + SSH + AI method — full lab session. (Read the method first.)