Get AI Working in Your Business

Get AI Working in Your Business

Build a practical AI toolkit for your business

With an experienced teacher beside you.

In three hands-on hours, build a customer reply, a first-visit email, and a service promotion. Tony Cecala brings four decades of technology teaching experience. Ask questions as you work, check your drafts with a partner, and keep the instructions that worked.

A confident business owner directing four AI assistants in a warm boardroom

November 14, 2026 · 1–4 p.m. Central · Frisco, TX · Tony Cecala, Ph.D.

Your business.
Your AI team.

Start with the work that keeps following you home.

That social post you haven’t written. The campaign you need to organize. The marketing piece that needs another draft. The emails waiting for a thoughtful reply.

Work through three useful tasks: a customer inquiry reply, a First-Visit Client Email, and a social post with selected media. Learn one repeatable method, with your judgment in charge.

  • Social posts

    Draft a social post and pair it with a photo, graphic, or video you have permission to use. Check the words and media together.

  • Customer inquiry reply

    Answer a customer’s question using your approved business facts. Check the reply before deciding whether to send it.

  • First-Visit Client Email

    Help a new client know what to expect, how to prepare, and what happens next. Have a partner check it from a newcomer’s perspective.

  • One repeatable method

    Use all six SCALES™ steps on every task: Set Success, Create Context, Assign Authority, Launch with Limits, Evaluate Evidence, and Save Skills.

Line-art rendition of the workshop heroine directing her AI team

You bring the judgment.
AI gets an assignment.

Think of an agent as a junior employee. It needs context, access to the right tools, a clear task, and a definition of done.

The workshop includes built-in AI. No separate AI account is required. If you already use an AI tool, you’re welcome to bring it too. Arrive with your preparation worksheet completed. We’ll use your approved business facts and examples to assign, check, and save useful work. Fictional or redacted examples are available when needed.

Just get started. You can build confidence before handing over more consequential work.

Your afternoon with Tony

  • 1:00–1:15 · Set up your workspace

    Meet your Agent, open your workbook, and give it a sample of how you speak.

  • 1:15–1:55 · Answer a customer inquiry

    Draft a reply, check the price and requested time, and save reusable instructions. Break: 1:55–2:05.

  • 2:05–2:45 · Welcome a first-time client

    Ask a partner to explain the arrival time, address, and next step. Revise the email where your reader hesitates. Break: 2:45–2:55.

  • 2:55–3:40 · Promote one service

    Choose a permitted image, write the invitation, and check each claim and the action you ask readers to take.

  • 3:40–4:00 · Put your kit to work

    Keep your checked drafts and reusable Agent instructions. Pick one optional walkthrough for home. Optional demonstrations follow the core workshop.

What you take home

Your $197 workshop fee includes a package with an estimated value of $499.

  • Three-hour workshop with Tony · $197

    Bring your questions to a small class limited to 10 students.

  • Business Voice Starter Kit · $49

    Turn a short writing sample into guidance your Agent can use.

  • Nine Guided Business Walkthroughs · $99

    Practice follow-ups, reminders, FAQs, post openings, a weekly posting plan, and more. Each has a starting prompt, worked answer, and checks. These are optional homework.

  • Reusable Agent Skills Library · $79

    Keep three editable instructions for customer replies, first visits, and service promotions. Supply fresh facts each time.

  • Personal Zoom Consultation (20 mins) · $75

    Bring Tony one draft, task, or question. One call per paid student; book and hold it within 45 days of class, by December 29.

Values are estimates.

Start small. Think big.

Do I need to know how to code?

No coding is planned. The focus is explaining your business, assigning work, and reviewing results.

What should I bring?

The workshop includes built-in AI. No separate AI account is required. If you already use an AI tool, you’re welcome to bring it too. Bring a laptop and charger, your completed preparation worksheet, and approved business facts and media for the three tasks. Complete the worksheet without AI and use the feedback to clarify missing details before class. Fictional or redacted examples work too.

Will AI send emails or publish for me?

The exercises focus on drafts and review. You decide what is ready and what actions you want to authorize.

Meet your instructor: Tony Cecala, Ph.D.

Tony Cecala is a Yale-trained cognitive psychologist, technology innovator, and entrepreneur who has spent nearly four decades exploring how people interact with computers and emerging technologies.

His work began at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in 1985, investigating people’s responses to computer-generated speech. From 1987 to 1990, he worked in Human Factors Engineering at Texas Instruments, designing user interfaces and presenting emerging information-technology strategies to senior corporate leadership, including CEO Jerry Junkins.

Since then, Tony has developed educational software, built digital media businesses, founded technology communities, and produced conferences and wellness events for thousands of participants.

Today, he brings that experience to his AI School and hands-on business workshops, helping entrepreneurs and professionals understand what AI can actually do, how to put it to work, and how to remain confidently in control of the technology.

His approach combines the scientist’s curiosity, the engineer’s practicality, and the educator’s passion for helping people discover what’s possible.

Join us November 14.

Three hours to start putting AI to work in your business.

1–4 p.m. Central · Enrollment fee $197 · Class limit: 10 students
Frisco, TX
Private event. Location details provided upon registration.

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A Simple AI Safety Checklist for Everyday Use

A Simple AI Safety Checklist for Everyday Use

A Simple AI Safety Checklist for Everyday Use starts with a simple idea: AI is most useful when it helps with work people already understand. It should make the next draft, next checklist, or next conversation easier, not make the office feel less human.

The Practical Starting Point

Do not begin by trying every tool. Begin by naming one repeated task that takes too long or causes friction. That might be a follow-up email, a family update, a meeting summary, a procedure, or a social post.

How To Use It

  • Do not share private numbers, passwords, medical IDs, or financial details.
  • Double-check important answers.
  • Ask AI to explain its reasoning in plain language.
  • Use AI drafts as drafts.
  • When the stakes are high, ask a qualified human.

What To Watch

AI can be confident and wrong. It can also miss context that everyone in your office understands immediately. Use it as a helper, not as the final authority. The final version should still sound like you and fit the situation.

A Simple Prompt To Try

Try this: 'Help me with a simple ai safety checklist for everyday use. Ask me for any missing details first, then give me a clear draft I can edit.'

What To Ask AI Before a Doctor Visit or Family Meeting

What To Ask AI Before a Doctor Visit or Family Meeting

Important conversations are easier when your thoughts are organized before you walk into the room.

AI can help you prepare a list of questions, sort concerns by topic, and turn scattered notes into something you can bring with you. It should not replace professional medical advice.

Start With Your Own Notes

Write the messy version first. Symptoms, dates, questions, worries, medication names, what someone told you, what you forgot to ask last time. Then ask AI to organize it.

A Prep Prompt

Turn these notes into questions for my appointment. Group them by topic. Put the most important questions first. Add a final section called ‘Things to double-check with the professional.’

For A Family Meeting

AI can also help make a family conversation less scattered. Ask it to group notes into decisions, concerns, open questions, and next steps.

Bring The Human Judgment

Use the organized list as preparation. Do not use AI as the authority on diagnosis, treatment, legal decisions, or finances. It is the notepad, not the professional.

The Microwave Moment: Why AI Is Just the Next Useful Tool

The Microwave Moment: Why AI Is Just the Next Useful Tool

Every useful technology has a strange early season. People ask if it is safe, if it is a fad, if it is too complicated, and whether ordinary people really need it.

Then one day it is just part of the kitchen, the desk, the phone, or the car.

The Microwave Test

Most people do not understand exactly how a microwave works. They understand what it does for them. It heats the coffee. It warms leftovers. It solves a small daily problem.

AI Has To Pass The Same Test

Do not start by asking whether AI is impressive. Ask whether it can help with something ordinary: writing a note, planning a trip, understanding a confusing letter, or organizing a list.

A Ten-Minute Experiment

  • Ask AI to explain something you saw on the news.
  • Ask it to draft a birthday message.
  • Ask it to plan a simple errand list.
  • Ask it to make an answer shorter and clearer.

Useful Beats Mysterious

The moment AI becomes less intimidating is the moment it does one useful thing for you. After that, it is no longer a science fiction topic. It is a tool.

How Seniors Can Use AI Without Feeling Overwhelmed

How Seniors Can Use AI Without Feeling Overwhelmed

The easiest way to make AI overwhelming is to explain too much at once. Models, apps, prompts, tokens, settings, subscriptions: none of that needs to be first.

For most seniors, the first step is simply learning that you can ask a normal question in normal words.

Begin With One Question

Ask something small: ‘Explain this word,’ ‘Help me write a thank-you note,’ or ‘Give me three ideas for a simple dinner.’ The goal is not mastery. The goal is comfort.

A Friendly Starter Prompt

Explain this to me in plain English. Go slowly. Give me one example. Then ask if I want another example.

What Helps Confidence

  • Use plain English.
  • Ask one question at a time.
  • Ask it to make the answer simpler.
  • Remember that mistakes are a reason to double-check, not a reason to quit.

The Point

AI is not a test you pass or fail. It is a tool you can talk to. Curiosity is enough to begin.