Give Your AI a Memory · Open for Business, Class 1

​Stop re-explaining your business to AI.

​In this free 30-minute class you'll learn to give your AI a memory: a persistent agent memory for your small business. It's a small folder on your own computer that Claude or ChatGPT reads before each task, so it knows your business, your rules and when to check with you.

​Who it's for

​Small-business owners, small nonprofit staff, and anyone running something: a shop, a trade, a side business, a community group. No technical background needed.

​You'll leave with

• ​Our free starter kit to build your memory folder (about 20 minutes to set up; start in office hours if you like)

• ​Your first "Always ask me" rules: what your AI can do on its own, what it checks with you first, and what it never does

• ​A quick test that shows it's working, and a 10-minute Friday routine to keep it current

​Judgement is built into what we teach. You'll take one real decision of your own (what should my AI do without asking me?) and work through it step by step.

​What to bring

​Something to write on. It works with the Claude desktop app on a paid plan (we'll use its Cowork feature) or the ChatGPT desktop app (whether it can open a folder depends on your ChatGPT plan; if not, you can upload the files instead). Want to start setting up in office hours? Bring a Mac or Windows laptop with one of those apps. No laptop or plan, or only a phone? Come anyway. Don't want to use your own business? You can practice on our made-up one.

​Schedule (Hawaiʻi time)

​11:00–11:30 class

​11:30–11:45 office hours: stay on if you'd like help setting it up

​Privacy

​Neither the class nor the office hours is recorded. Please don't paste customer or client details, passwords or financial information during class. We'll show you what belongs in the folder and what never does. Using this for a nonprofit or someone else's business? Check your organization's AI policy before you connect work files.

​Part of AI for Real People by Pacific Forward Initiative, a Hawaiʻi nonprofit teaching people the skills of the future.