Before You Buy AI: Pick the Job, Not the Tool
AI is showing up everywhere, but that does not mean your business needs another AI tool.
The better question is: what work in your business is taking too much time, and could AI help you do it better?
Join Hackademic Solutions for a free Lunch & Learn designed for small business owners and professional services firms. We’ll show how AI can turn email overload into a useful daily briefing, then help you identify one repetitive process in your own business that may be worth improving with AI.
We’ll start with a real-world example: turning email overload into a daily AI briefing.
You’ll see how AI can review a set of emails, identify what needs attention, summarize important information, and pull out recommended actions into a simple daily brief.
More importantly, we’ll look at the decisions behind the workflow:
What should the AI have access to?
What should it be allowed to do?
What still requires human review?
When does automation actually save time?
When does it simply add another tool to manage?
Then we’ll apply the same thinking to your business.
Bring one repetitive or time-consuming process you would like to improve. It might be customer follow-up, scheduling, reporting, document preparation, meeting follow-up, email, or something completely different.
You’ll use a simple Secure AI Adoption framework to determine whether AI is a good fit and sketch a practical first step for using it.
You’ll leave with three things
1. A better way to identify useful AI opportunities
Start with work that needs to improve, not the newest AI product.
2. A simple plan for one workflow in your business
Define what AI could help with, what information it would need, and where human judgment still matters.
3. A clearer understanding of the security tradeoffs
The more access and authority you give AI, the more carefully you need to think about safeguards, data, and accountability.
This is an introductory session for business owners, managers, and professional services firms who want to use AI practically without becoming AI engineers.
No coding, technical background, or AI account is required.
Agenda
11:30 AM
Check-in, lunch, and networking
11:45 AM
Presentation and demo: turning email overload into a daily AI briefing
12:15 PM
Identify one AI opportunity in your own business
12:30 PM
Discussion and Q&A
12:45 PM
Wrap
Free to attend. Lunch is provided.
Bring one business process that wastes your time. Leave with a clearer idea of whether AI can help and what your first step should be.