What are the best in-person AI workshops for business owners in Australia?

The best in-person AI workshop for an Australian business owner is one where Claude AI is installed on your laptop before you arrive, then set up on your own business on the day with a person beside you, so you leave with Claude helping with your content and one real job already automated. Ai With Soul runs that as a one-day, in-person workshop for owners of established service businesses, led by Kelly Wotherspoon, a Claude specialist.

Kelly Wotherspoon of Ai With Soul leaning over a laptop to help Maleny Jewellers owners set up Claude AI on their own business at a one-day, in-person workshop on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland — Kelly helping Jim and Scott from Maleny Jewellers at a one-day workshop on the Sunshine Coast.

What should I look for in an in-person AI workshop for my business?

Look for six things before you book.

Your own business. You work on your own files, your own clients and your own admin, so what you build carries straight into your working week.
Set up before you arrive. The installing is done at home beforehand, so the day goes on your real work.
A person beside you. Someone who looks at your screen and helps you fix the thing that's stuck.
A small room. Few enough businesses that you get real help.
Support after the day. The real questions show up the week after, back in your business.
Yours to keep. Everything built in your own accounts, with no ongoing payment to the person who ran the day.

Why does working on your own business matter so much?

What you learn on your own business is what you use on Monday. Many owners have already had a go at AI on their own, got stuck, and closed the window. People learn on a made-up example, then nothing carries over to their real business.

At an Ai With Soul workshop you set Claude up around your own content, your own clients and your own jobs, with Kelly in the room to help.

Kelly Wotherspoon teaching at a table while Jim from Maleny Jewellers works on his laptop during a hands-on, in-person AI workshop for business owners on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland — Every owner works on their own business, on their own laptop.

What happens at the Ai With Soul one-day workshop?

You spend one day, 9am to 4pm, in a room of ten businesses, setting Claude up on your own business with Kelly in the room to help.

Everything is installed on your laptop before the day, from a step-by-step video, so no tech background is needed. In the morning you connect your tools and build your Business Brain, a written guide to how your business works that Claude reads before it does anything. After lunch you set up your content editing and automate one real job from start to finish. Lunch, morning and afternoon tea are included.

Claude drafts and you decide. Nothing goes out without you saying yes.

A few seconds from a real workshop: Kelly working with Jim and Scott from Maleny Jewellers on their own business.

What happens after the workshop?

You get 30 days of support in our online group, with live builds with Kelly on Zoom every Tuesday at 7pm Queensland time during those 30 days. That's where you bring the job that isn't working yet and get that job sorted.

Who owns what gets built, and is my information safe?

You do. Everything is set up in your own accounts, on your own laptop. Kelly shows you how and doesn't touch your sensitive data, and you decide what Claude can see.

You'll need your own paid Claude plan. Everything you build is yours to keep, with no subscription to us.

What did people say after a recent workshop?

These owners came to a recent one-day workshop on the Sunshine Coast to set Claude up on their own businesses.

Business owners working on their own laptops at an Ai With Soul one-day Claude AI workshop on the Sunshine Coast, with Kelly Wotherspoon helping at a table behind them — The room at a recent Sunshine Coast workshop.

Caroline runs Blackley Group, a school-culture consultancy, and came to set Claude up on her own business. At the end of the day she said: "Four dashboards that suddenly at my fingertip have so much information and very well organised."

Jim and Scott, owners of Maleny Jewellers, smiling at their laptop during an Ai With Soul one-day Claude AI workshop on the Sunshine Coast — Jim and Scott from Maleny Jewellers, who built a quoting system for their staff on the day.

Jim and Scott run Maleny Jewellers and came to set Claude up on their own business. On the day they built a quoting system for their staff. At the end of the day Jim said: "We've built a quoting system for our jewellery so our staff can use it and it's really, well, we're working on it still but it's still really easy and hands-on and our minds have exploded with the possibilities now so we're looking forward to doing more with it."

Where and when are the Ai With Soul workshops?

Workshop dates are listed by city at aiwithsoulworkshops.com as each one is set. You can tell us your city there and hear first when a date goes live.

To talk the day through first, book a 30-minute call with Kelly. She'll tell you straight whether the day suits your business.

Book a 30-minute call

Key takeaways

The best in-person AI workshop sets Claude up on your own business, on your own laptop, with a person beside you and support after the day.
Ask whether the set-up is done before you arrive, how many businesses are in the room, and what you keep paying for afterwards.
The Ai With Soul workshop is one day, in person, 9am to 4pm, with ten businesses and Kelly Wotherspoon in the room.
You leave with Claude helping with your content and one real job already automated, in your own accounts.
You pay for your own Claude plan, with no subscription to us, and get 30 days of support after the day.
Dates are listed by city at aiwithsoulworkshops.com. A 30-minute call tells you whether the day suits your business.