AI for Business Meetups
A free session for local business owners who want to use AI to save time, improve margins, and get more done. Two locations, each once a month: an evening in Hamilton and a lunch hour in Oakville. Hosted by Patricia & Greg Kowalczyk — a father-and-daughter team running consumer brands for over a decade.
AI for Business — Oakville
Practical AI Workflows for Small Business — Save Time, Improve Margins, Get More Done
· 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Not a "what is AI" talk. A lunch-hour session on your actual workflow — the quoting, the follow-ups, the product listings, the blog posts you never get around to writing. Live examples you can copy, open Q&A, and a room of other Oakville owners. Bring a real problem, and a laptop if you want to follow along. Officially an hour; we stay until 1:30 for questions.
AI for Business — Hamilton
Going Deeper: New AI Features, Live Workflows, and Tips You Can Apply the Next Morning
· 5:30 – 7:30 PM
A practical evening for Hamilton-area owners who want AI to solve real business problems, not just talk about the technology. Trades and contractors, real estate agents, shop owners selling in person or on Shopify or Amazon, consultants and solopreneurs. A short presentation with live examples, open Q&A, then structured networking: bring your #1 AI challenge and trade ideas around the room. New to AI or using it daily, you will leave with something you can apply the next morning. Bring a laptop and a real problem.
A room, a screen, and your questions.
- Free, monthly, in person
An evening in Hamilton and a lunch hour in Oakville. A real room with other local owners, not a webinar.
- Shown live, on real work
We open the tools we use in our own businesses and do the work on screen: quotes, follow-ups, listings, posts.
- Your question, answered
Open Q&A on the thing you are stuck on. Bring one job you would hand off to AI tomorrow if you knew how.
- Owners around the room
Time to compare notes with people running businesses like yours. Nobody is selling to you.
// Minute by minute
Oakville · Lunch hour
- 12:00 Arrive and settle in
- 12:10 Practical AI for business: strategies, live examples, workflows
- 12:40 Open Q&A — bring a real problem from your business
- 1:00 Wrap up — we stay until 1:30 for anyone with more questions
Hamilton · Evening
- 5:30 Doors open, coffee, and open networking
- 6:00 Practical AI presentation with live, real-world examples
- 6:30 Q&A — bring the thing you are stuck on
- 6:45 Structured networking: one AI challenge each, around the room
- 7:20 Wrap up
Bring one thing you would hand off to AI tomorrow if you knew how. That is the whole price of admission.
Come if
- → You run a small or mid-size business and keep hearing you "should be using AI".
- → You have tried ChatGPT, got something useful once, and never built it into how you work.
- → You want to see what other local owners are actually doing with it — not a vendor demo.
- → You are curious where AI saves real hours in marketing, admin, or customer service.
What it isn't
- × Not a technical workshop. Nothing to install, no code, no prerequisites.
- × Not a sales pitch. Nobody is closing you in the room.
- × Not a webinar. It is people, in a room, in your city.
Worth the hour, or it isn't worth running.
Leave with something you can copy into your own business, not a list of tools to look up.
See where AI saves real time in marketing, admin and customer service, on examples you recognise.
What is worth doing now, what can wait, and what is hype. From people who run businesses, not a vendor.
What we show gets shared, like the free Claude Code skill from the first Hamilton night.
Find the one place work piles up. Fix it. Hand it over.
The meetup shows what is possible. When you want it done in your business, this is how it goes. You can stop after any step, and the first one costs nothing.
- 01Map the workFree 15-minute call
Every business has one place where work piles up. We find yours and name the tool that fixes it.
- 02Sort every step$1,000, credited against a build
Every step written down and sorted: delete it, code it, give it to AI, or keep it with a person. A written plan with real costs.
- 03Build inside your toolsFixed price, you own it
Your existing tools connected, AI doing the reading, sorting and drafting, and you approving what matters.
- 04Prove it, then hand it overTraining included
Measured before and after, documented, your team trained to run it without me, or we keep going on the next constraint monthly.
The jobs we take off your plate.
Tell us the one job you want off your plate.
Say which meetup you came to and what you would like help with. We reply personally, and the first 15 minutes are free.
// Past meetups
AI for Business — Hamilton
Thursday, September 10, 2026 · CoWork at the Cotton Factory
The first one. Thank you to everyone who came out — October in Hamilton picks up where it left off.
The free Claude Code skill we shared that night →Who's hosting
Patricia & Greg Kowalczyk — a father-and-daughter team who have been running consumer product brands together since 2014, selling on Amazon and Shopify across Canada, the US, and Europe. Everything shown at these evenings is something we run in our own businesses first.
Greg is a mechanical engineer by training, spent 22 years in engineering before e-commerce, and now builds custom AI tools for small businesses across the GTA.