Build Your First AI Agent: Hands-On Workshop for Raleigh Owners
About this Event
You don't leave with notes. You leave with a working AI agent running on your business.
$97. Laptops open by 6:05 PM. If it doesn't meet your expectations, tell me before you leave and I'll refund every dollar on the spot.
Our first session ran August 1. Five owners left with a workflow running on their own business.
Most owners start with a chatbot and stop there. The real payoff is further up the ladder — agents and workflows that do the work, save real hours every week, and add no new risk. That's what we build on the night.
What you walk out with
A prompt framework that works. The four-part work order — context, task, format, example — practiced on a real task from your week.
Claude set up on YOUR business. A workspace loaded with your business context, drafted from your own website, corrected by you. The same question before and after is night and day.
Your live business data, connected. Your real files, your calendar, or your books — Claude answering from your world, not the internet's average. Three paths, so nobody gets stuck.
One workflow running on a schedule. A named, reusable skill built from your own process, set to run on a standing schedule. It drafts, you approve. It runs Monday morning whether you remember it or not.
Plus two take-homes: a plain-English glossary of every term you used (enough to decode any vendor pitch), and a one-page AI policy for your business that you write in the room.
How the evening runs
- 6:00 — The map, the promise, and your checklist
- 6:05 — Level 1: a briefing method that works every time
- 6:25 — Level 2: your business context, loaded
- 6:55 — Level 3: your live data, connected
- 7:20 — Level 4: your first scheduled workflow
- 7:50 — The safety rules and the vocabulary, earned
- 7:55 — A look up the ladder, and what's next
This is for you if…
- You own or run a business and a chunk of your week disappears into email, paperwork, retyping, or chasing people.
- You've tried ChatGPT or Claude "occasionally" and suspect there's more.
- You want the judgment to know what to automate, what not to, and what a fair price for either looks like.
It's not built for…
- Developers looking for a technical deep-dive. This is an operator's session, not an engineering one.
- Anyone hoping AI will run their business unattended. We teach the opposite: it drafts, you decide.
Who's teaching
Praveen Rengaraj has spent 20+ years building secure, compliance-grade software, including multi-million-dollar U.S. government systems, and now builds AI automation for small and mid-sized businesses. The agents you'll see demonstrated are real systems we built and run, shown honestly and labeled for what they are.
The whole session is teaching. There's no pitch from the front of the room. The last five minutes tell you what working with us looks like, if you ever want to. That's it.
Two guarantees
Full refund through August 19, no questions asked. And on the day itself: if the workshop doesn't meet your learning expectations, tell me before you leave and I'll refund every dollar on the spot. All the risk is on me.
What to bring
A laptop and charger, your phone, and one process in your business that eats hours every week. We send a short setup guide — about 10 minutes of prep — after you register.
Room capped at 15 so everyone builds and nobody watches from the back.
Full details: https://smbdigitalsolutions.com/ai-workshops/
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 97.00
