🤖 Intro to Agentic AI for Solopreneurs: Claude Desktop + Notion Custom Agents
"Business stress is a systems problem." That was Jenny Blake's mantra when writing Free Time, a book for creative small business owners who are high-net-freedom. In it, she outlines 27 timeless operating principles to set your time free through smarter systems—powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams.
Well, after the recent releases of Claude Desktop (which includes Chat, Cowork, and Code) and Notion's Custom AI Agents (free to try until May 4), we can now achieve so much more in our businesses with ease, joy, and automation! Agentic AI has ushered in a new wave of abilities and possibilities for handling recurring tasks in your life and work.
Note: We won't be getting into the weeds of the real concerns people have around privacy/security, ethical, and environmental impact—Amelia Hruby has done a brilliant job of that in a recent AI series on her podcast here. This session is more of a show-and-tell to help you get started if/when you're ready.
👋 About Us
If you are a solopreneur and curious about all this "agentic AI" buzz, but unsure where to start, this workshop is for you. Co-Hosted by Jenny Blake, author of Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, and Alex Sherwood, founder of aNotioneer, we'll show you all the ways we're experimenting with—and customizing—agents for running a small, creative business.
We are both certified Notion ambassadors, and for four years, we've been partners on helping solo+preneurs implement the Free Time Operations Dashboard to get their entire business out of their mind and into Notion, where it's fully searchable, linkable, and customizable.
There's a lot of information and tutorials out there, and it can definitely feel like drinking from a firehose. But do not sleep on these tools! As usual, Jenny and Alex aren't claiming to be the End-All Be-All experts — they're two excited tinkerers who love playing around with new tech and seeing how it can help Free Timers streamline operations to do more with less.
💻 About this Session
In this workshop, we'll show you exactly how we're using agentic AI tools right now, with easy first next steps for you to get set-up—so that you can stop peeking over the fence and start putting these systems into practice in your own business.
✅ By the end of this session, you will learn:
A clearer understanding of what Agentic AI actually means as it relates to running a small business, and why it's different from the AI chat tools you've been playing with since they launched in late 2022.
See live demos of Claude Desktop (Chat, Cowork, and Code) and Notion's Custom AI agents, as well as a walkthrough on how to customize both to better fit your needs.
At least five starting agent ideas you can experiment with.
How we can support you moving forward!
❌ NOTE: This session will not be recorded, so please join live! Why?
Any recording will likely become instantly out of date with how fast software moves these days 😂
This will be more of a show-and-tell around how Jenny and Alex use these tools, which is always in constant evolution.
Since we'll be doing a lot of screen-sharing which may have some personal information.
📝 We will share links and show notes via email following the session, so even if you can't make it live, you can register to receive that starter pack of curated resources.