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FREE SESSION · 45 MIN

Free live session · Western Sydney

Stop chatting with AI. Start delegating to it.

A free 45-minute session for Western Sydney business owners. Leave with one task in your business ready to hand over.

01Two minutes on what this is

Video coming soon

02Where everyone is

You are not behind. Almost everyone is here.

1 in 2

Australian small businesses have tried AI.

1 in 10

Have it working in the business, day to day.

That gap is not talent, and it is not the software. It is the difference between typing into a box and training AI on how your business actually runs.

ABS survey of almost 7,000 Australian businesses, October 2025 to February 2026. National AI Centre SME AI Pulse, summer 2025 to 2026 quarter.

03What you walk away with

You will know which of the four levels you are actually on, and what it is costing you to stay there.

You will see the difference on screen, not in theory. The same customer enquiry answered twice, once by AI that knows nothing and once by AI that has been properly briefed.

You will know the three ways this goes wrong, including the one that has already embarrassed people in public.

You will leave with one task in your own business named, tested against four questions, and ready to start on.

04How the 45 minutes runs
1

The four levels.

Ask, delegate, manage, step back. Where you are now, and what changes at each step. It is a management sequence, not a software one, which is why it still works when the tools change.

2

The live build.

A typical enquiry, run cold and then run again by AI briefed on an example business. You see both outputs, and then you see the briefing behind the difference.

3

Your first task.

Four questions that tell you whether a task in your business can be handed over. Bring one. I will work through a few live.

05Who is running it
Linda Cunningham

Linda Cunningham

More than two decades delivering technology programs for banks, medtech and government. That work now goes into AI systems for her own businesses, and for local ones across the Hawkesbury, the Hills, Penrith and the Blue Mountains.

This is a trade, not a topic.

Having Linda come and speak to our Hawkesbury Women in Business group was one of the most pivotal moments for so many of the ladies there. Using AI in business has never been more important, and what made Linda's session so valuable was how she tackled the real concerns.
Sarah Cassim · Founder, Hawkesbury Women in Business

AFTER SESSION ONE: add one line from two attendees here before promoting session two.

06Questions

I already use ChatGPT most days. Is this too basic for me?

Probably not. Plenty of businesses pay for AI and use it daily, and are still stuck on level one. Using it often and using it well are different things. If you already work from a business context file you maintain and update, you are ahead of this session and I will say so.

Is this a sales pitch?

The first 38 minutes are teaching, including a live build and the three ways this approach fails. At the end I spend two minutes on the 90-day program I run in South Windsor and Penrith, because some people will want it. If you only ever come to the free session, you still leave with something you can use.

Do I need to be technical?

No. If you can write an email and describe how your business works, you have what this session needs.

Do I need to pay for AI to get value from this?

Not to attend. To do the work properly afterwards, yes, you need a paid plan at about $30 a month with any of the three main tools. The free versions cannot hold context, and holding context is the whole point. I say the same thing on the night.

What if I cannot make either time?

Register anyway and pick the closest one. The replay goes to everyone who signs up.

Which AI do you teach?

Mainly Claude, and I show you where ChatGPT and Gemini differ. Bring whichever one you already pay for. Almost everything in this session works the same way in all three.

Will you be selling the 90-day program?

Yes, briefly, at the end. It starts on Wednesday 9 September, which is why these sessions are running now. Rooms are capped at 30. If that is not for you, ignore it and keep the free session.

REGISTER · 07

Forty-five minutes. One task named. No cost.

You already know AI can do more than you are getting from it. This session shows you where the gap is, and gives you one thing to do about it this week.

Friday 28 August · 1pm · Thursday 3 September · 1pm

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