Learn to use AI for the stuff you actually do.
For small business owners, creatives and therapists who keep hearing about AI but haven't had time to properly learn it. Small groups, warm rooms, and a real task you leave having done.
Everyone in your feed is using AI. Your mate runs her whole admin through it. Someone on LinkedIn just "10x'd" their business. Meanwhile you've opened ChatGPT once, asked it to write a birthday message, and closed the tab.
Most AI training is built for developers or corporates — a webinar, a slide deck, and a Slack channel full of jargon. This isn't that.
It's a small room, a friendly host at each table, and you leave having actually done something real for your business. No frameworks you won't use. No homework. Just the version of AI that fits the way you already work.
Tools set up, a real piece of work done, and enough confidence to keep going on Monday.
Claude, set up and connected to your tools
Account sorted, preferences tuned to how you work, connectors plugged into the apps you actually use (Gmail, Drive, Notion, Xero, whatever). No more "I'll figure it out later".
At least one real business task, done
Bring the thing you've been putting off — cleaning up a folder, drafting a policy, batching a week's captions, organising client notes. We'll help you do it, start to finish, in the room.
A prompt cheat sheet & resource list
Starter prompts tailored to your line of work, a short guide to the settings that matter, and links to the good stuff — so you don't have to remember everything we covered.
Confidence to keep using it on your own
The biggest win. You stop feeling like AI is a thing other people do, and start using it as a normal part of your week. A small, grown-up version of "I can do this".
We keep the rooms small (max ~30) so no one gets left behind. Hosts float between tables the whole time — stuck for five minutes is too long.
Guided setup
We get everyone on the same page — accounts live, preferences set, a couple of connectors plugged in. Ten minutes of admin that saves ten hours later.
Learn the basics
A quick tour of the bits that matter: prompting, projects, skills, what each mode is for. No lecture — just enough scaffolding to know what you're looking at.
Shared task — together
We do one task as a group so you see the whole flow before you try it solo. Watching someone else use AI well is the fastest way to learn.
Your own project
The main event. You work on the task you brought with you. Hosts and table buddies help when you're stuck. This is where the real learning happens.
Show & tell
A few minutes at the end to share what you made. Other people's use cases are the best source of ideas — you'll leave with a list of things to try next week.
A laptop and a task you keep putting off. That's it. If you don't have a Claude account yet, we'll help you start a trial in the room. No prep, no pre-reading, no pressure.
Not engineers, not corporate L&D teams. People who wear every hat in their business and need AI to help them take a few of them off.
You're the founder, the marketer, the bookkeeper and the receptionist. AI is the first affordable hire you've ever had.
Private practice admin eating your evenings. Session notes, policy docs, client handouts, newsletter drafts — all handled with privacy you can trust.
Captioning, client comms, organising enormous photo libraries, writing the things you hate writing so you can get back to the work you love.
SEO, copy, landing pages, content planning. Get a marketer-in-a-box for the parts of your site you've been meaning to fix for a year.
Coaches, consultants, trades, allied health, tutors — if you run a business that fits in your head, this workshop fits how you work.
Real comments from the room at our first workshop — the Friends Edition, April 2026.
We run workshops tailored to specific groups so the content is actually relevant to you. Pick what you're interested in and we'll let you know when a session is scheduled. This is an interest signal — not a booking, not a commitment, no payment.
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We'll be in touch when your session is ready to go. Usually with a few dates to choose from and enough notice to rearrange the washing.
We run these together on purpose. One of us brings the creative and small-business angle, the other brings the technical depth. Between us we've got most of your questions covered.
Zoe
Runs Snuggle Studio alongside the workshops. Knows what it's like to juggle a business, a client list, a messy hard drive and a life. Translates the technical stuff into "what does this actually mean for my Tuesday?"
Ben
Runs Freshwater Futures. Spends the week helping bigger companies adopt AI, then brings the best bits down to the size of your business. Makes the complex stuff make sense without making it boring.
A few things that come up before people register. If yours isn't here, email us and we'll add it.