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AI for small business owners: where to start

A hands-on workshop for owner-operators who have tried AI once or never. You pick two tasks in your own business where AI can help this month, build and test a reusable prompt for each, and leave with a one-page list of what AI should never handle for you.

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Format, price and dates

Planned length
3 hours, with a break
Group size
Up to 12 people
Where
Online, or in person in Toronto and the GTA. Online sessions are open to businesses across Canada and the United States.
Price
Price on request
Dates
Ask for dates

One of the first two workshops we are scheduling. Ask for dates.

Who it is for

Owners of service businesses (trades, home services and local professional services) who want a plain starting point, not a technical course.

What you will leave with

  • Two tasks from your own week where AI can save you time, chosen with help.
  • One tested, reusable prompt for each of those tasks.
  • A one-page list of what you will not hand to AI: prices, legal promises and private customer details.
  • A plain comparison of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini for what you actually do.

What we cover

  1. What these tools are good and bad at, shown on real small-business tasks.
  2. Picking your two tasks: a short audit of where your week goes.
  3. Hands-on: a reply to a real enquiry, a quote draft from job notes, a summary of a supplier document.
  4. Privacy and accuracy: what to keep out, how to check the output before it goes anywhere.
  5. Choosing a tool and a plan: free, paid and business plans compared in plain terms.
  6. Your 30-day plan and your one-page AI rules.

What you need

  • A laptop.
  • An account on at least one AI tool. A free account is enough.
  • One real task from your week that you would like help with.

Who teaches

Dillon Kovljenic, co-founder of Schkovl, leads the workshops. Schkovl uses these tools every day in its client work on local search, websites and business automation.

About Dillon Kovljenic

Frequently Asked Questions

I have never used AI. Is this too advanced?

No. This workshop is written for people starting from zero. If you can send an email and use a web browser, you can follow it.

Will this save me a set number of hours?

We do not promise a number. You leave with two tasks and tested prompts, and you can measure the time yourself over the next month.

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