Part 1: Built From AI- A Google Showcase Part 2: From Side Hustle to Scale: The AI Playbook for New Founders | Day 3

​Part 1: Knox St Studios has trained and certified 100+ Durham entrepreneurs in Google AI — and this is where we show the receipts. On May 7th, program graduates walk you through what they built, how they built it, and what it changed in their business. Then you do the same. Led by Richard Brown, you leave with one workflow transformed and a room full of people figuring this out alongside you.

​Part 2: You've spent years building expertise as an employee. Now it's time to put that experience to work, for yourself.

​Led by Hao Dinh, this 60-minute hands-on workshop is built for founders in motion: professionals from consulting, consumer products, and tech who are ready to turn their side hustle into their main gig without burning out or losing momentum. No lectures. No slides you'll never look at again. Just your laptop, your idea, and 60 minutes of doing.

​You'll leave with a complete AI-powered business foundation: a structured business plan, a pitch you can deliver with confidence, an automation system that buys back 10+ hours a week, and two custom AI executive advisors, your Chief Growth Officer and Chief Sales Officer, trained on your business and ready to work.

​We'll also tackle the conversation most workshops avoid: why startup founders quit, and how the tools you build today become your defense against every one of those failure points.

​Walk in with an idea. Walk out with a business.

​High-Level Agenda 

​Exercise 1: Turn your idea into a business plan using AI

​Exercise 2: Craft and pressure-test your elevator pitch

​Exercise 3: Identify where AI can automate your daily grind

​Exercise 4: Build your AI Chief Growth Officer + Chief Sales Officer

​Discussion: Why founders quit, and how AI changes that