Hands-on class · Castle Rock Chamber
Where did your week go?
Three hours for 8 business owners. Bring the one task that ate the most hours last week. Leave with it handed to an AI assistant you built on your own files, and timed against doing it by hand.
The afternoon
Doors open 12:45
1:00
Where did your week go?
Each owner reads one line from their pre-work: the task that ate the most hours last week, and how many. We total the hours on the whiteboard and leave the number up all afternoon.
1:15
A messy spreadsheet, handed to AI on the projector
A real-looking job tracker with every bad habit in it. Three requests: clean it, tell us who owes money, draft the follow-ups. Then we check each answer by hand, out loud.
1:30
What’s safe to give AI from your books
Kisha Johnson, fractional CFO at Your Numbers Nerd, on what you can hand over, what you clean first, and what never goes in. Everyone switches off training on their chats before we start.
1:50
Write the job description, build the assistant
Describe your task the way you’d brief a new hire, then turn it into a Claude or ChatGPT project. Andrew takes the AI side, Kisha takes the money tasks.
2:50
Run it on your own work, then time it
Run it on a cleaned copy of your real file. When it gets something wrong, you add a rule instead of fixing the answer by hand. Then you time it against doing it yourself.
3:40
The day you’ll run it next week
Each owner names the day they’ll use it and the hours it saves a month. Then the honest version of what a chat can’t do, and what to do about it.
4:00
Done. You leave with a working assistant and a number.
Before class: about 10 minutes
- 01
Answer a few questions about last week
After you reserve, you'll get a link to Forge Compass. It asks what actually happened last week, not a typical one. Your answers decide which task we help you hand off, so the three hours go to your work instead of a generic demo.
- 02
Bring a copy of the file that task starts from
The spreadsheet, export or email thread. If it has customer or bank details, bring it anyway: we clean it together before anything goes near AI. No file? You'll build on the class sample and still leave with a working assistant.
Who's teaching
Andrew Brough
The Forge Agency, Castle Rock
Builds AI assistants and automations for local businesses, including the rep dashboards ROI Metal Buildings' sales team runs on. Runs the AI side of the room.
Kisha Johnson
Fractional CFO, Your Numbers Nerd
Covers what's safe to give AI from your books, and what never is. Takes the money tasks during the hands-on hour.
8 seats. Thu, Dec 3.
Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce, conference room, 420 Jerry Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104. 1:00 to 4:00 pm, doors open 12:45. Bring your own drink. Questions: (303) 919-3187 or info@the-forge-agency.com.
If it sells out, email us and we'll put you on the list for the next date.
Bringing a whole office? See lunch-and-learns and team workshops.