Build Your First Practical AI Workflow

I'll show you how you can see through the hype, learn what's real and build a solution you can use immediately.
About this Event

AI is everywhere. Useful AI is still surprisingly rare.

This small, hands-on workshop is designed for Sacramento-area business owners who want to use AI in practical ways—without losing their voice, compromising their values, or getting buried in technical jargon.

You won’t spend two hours watching slides or listening to another presentation about what AI might do someday. You’ll bring a real, repetitive task from your business and work on turning it into a reusable AI-assisted workflow.

That task might involve client communication, follow-up, content creation, meeting preparation, internal documentation, or another recurring part of your work. You’ll receive direct guidance as you build, test, and improve your workflow.

By the end of the workshop, you’ll leave with:

• One working AI-assisted workflow built around a real business task
• A tested set of prompts or instructions you can reuse
• A simple process for reviewing and improving AI-generated work
• Practical guardrails for accuracy, privacy, and maintaining your voice
• A clear next step for applying what you learned elsewhere in your business

This is a working session. Bring your laptop, come prepared to participate, and leave with something you can use—not just another page of notes.

The workshop is intentionally limited to a small founding cohort so every participant can receive meaningful, hands-on support.

No buzzwords. No vendor pitch. No pressure to automate everything.

Just thoughtful, practical help using AI in a way that fits your business, your people, and your values.

Agenda

🕑: 01:45 PM - 01:55 PM
Welcome & introductions
🕑: 01:55 PM - 02:10 PM
Practical AI foundations
Host: JB Herrera

Info: Learn what makes an AI workflow useful and repeatable, where human judgment remains essential, and how to avoid common problems with accuracy, privacy, and generic output.

🕑: 02:10 PM - 02:25 PM
Choose & Define Your Workflow

Info: Select one recurring business task and clarify its inputs, desired result, quality standards, and human review points.

🕑: 02:25 PM - 03:00 PM
Build your first working version

Info: Create the instructions, context, and prompts your AI assistant needs to support the task. You’ll work on your own business example with direct guidance available throughout.

🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:10 PM
Short Break
🕑: 03:10 PM - 03:30 PM
Test, Review and Improve

Info: Run your workflow using a realistic example. Review the results, identify weaknesses, and refine the process until it produces something genuinely useful.

🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Make It repeatable

Info: Turn your working example into a simple process you can save, reuse, and improve over time.

🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Next Steps & Closing Conversation

Info: Identify where to use the workflow next, share key takeaways, and learn about the next workshop in the series. Learn how you can bring AI to your business realistically and help your teams embrace the technology.