Small Business, Meet AI

​Bring one real challenge from your business. Leave with a way through it, and a setup you can keep using on Monday.

​Small Business, Meet AI is a three-hour, in-person workshop in Melbourne for solo operators and small business owners who have heard plenty about AI and still haven’t had the head space to make it useful.

​No lecture. Two of us stay in the room the whole time.

​This is for you if you run the business yourself (or nearly), you can send an email and use a browser, and you have one specific thing you want to move. Client onboarding, a month of captions, overdue website copy, a pile of customer emails, a policy you’ve been avoiding...

​Skip this workshop if you want a strategy deck, a tour of models, or a room of developers. We're prioritising your actual business challenges.

​In the room you will:

• ​run something real against your own business early, so you see it work on your stuff first

• ​learn one prompt pattern in plain English, then use it on the challenge you brought

• ​spend a long stretch building that thing, with help when you get stuck

• ​see how to connect it to email, files and notes, so it isn’t a one-afternoon trick

​You leave with your AI setup sorted for the way you actually work, one real challenge worked through, a prompt-and-resources cheat sheet, and a clearer sense of what to try next week.

​“This workshop took me from ‘Claude is a bit daunting and intimidating’ to ‘Claude is my trusty assistant that will even tidy my chaotic desktop without judging me.’” — Jules, Creative Director, after the first workshop we ran

​Your workshop hosts -

​Zoe is your friendly AI coach and product designer who also runs a small creative business (Snuggle Studio Photography) alongside Freshwater Futures work. She translates the technical stuff into what it means for your Tuesday.

​Ben founded Freshwater Futures with ultimate AI enthusiasm and spends the week helping larger organisations adopt AI. He brings the useful bits down to the size of your business.

​Two humans, zero jargon.

​Saturday 5 September, 2pm to 5pm at Stone & Chalk, 121 King Street, Melbourne.

​Arrive from 1.45pm so we can start on time. Bring your laptop, a charger, and one real challenge. We cap the room at twenty, because two of us cannot get round a bigger group properly. Tickets are $159.

​We’ll email you everything you need before the day. If plans change, you can send someone else in your place.

​More detail: https://smallbusinessai.freshhub.ai/workshops/5-september-2026/