An evening talk and open Q&A for founders, owners and small teams who want to know what AI can actually do for a business their size — and what it genuinely costs.
First event October 2026 · Register interest free, no commitment · We'll email you the exact date and venue
What we'll cover
No slide deck about the future of work. Real tools, real numbers, and honest limits — from software actually running in production.
The tasks where it earns its keep in a small business today — and the ones where it wastes your time or quietly invents things. Knowing the difference saves months.
The step most people miss. An assistant that can see your live orders, stock or accounts is a different proposition to one guessing from a chat box. We'll show how that connection works.
How a small business can now build the internal tool it needs instead of paying five figures or living with a spreadsheet — and where that approach stops being sensible.
Real monthly figures for the stack below. Most of it is cheaper than one afternoon of contractor time, and several pieces are free at small-business volumes.
The boring foundations that save pain later: forming a limited company, registering with the ICO, getting email and payments set up so you look like a business from day one.
The most useful part. Bring your actual situation — a process that's eating your week, an idea you're not sure is possible — and we'll work through it in the room.
The stack
Everything here is in production use. Links go to the real thing so you can look before you come. Mac or Windows — it all works the same either way.
The AI assistant itself, and the Model Context Protocol that lets it query your own systems safely and read-only.
Where the software runs — Workers, Pages, KV and D1. Fast, close to free at small scale, and no servers to maintain.
The command line is where a site actually goes live — one deploy command and it's in front of the world. Less frightening than it looks, and identical on Mac or Windows. We'll demystify it.
Transactional email that actually lands in the inbox, plus the sender authentication most small businesses get wrong.
Taking payments and running subscriptions without building a billing system.
How you find out whether Google can actually see your site — and the free signal most businesses never look at.
Business email and the everyday tooling, set up so you own the domain rather than renting an identity.
What it involves, what it costs, and when it's the right move for a UK small business.
If you handle personal data you probably need to register and pay the data protection fee. Straightforward once you know.
Who it's for
You run something real and suspect you're spending hours a week on admin a machine should handle.
Early stage, small budget, and you'd rather build than raise. Knowing what's now possible solo changes the plan.
Two to twenty people, no in-house developer, and a list of internal tools nobody has time to build.
You don't need to be technical. No laptop required — it's a talk and a conversation, not a workshop.
Register interest
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