How AI Can Save Your Business 10+ Hours a Week

Workshop Overview

A hands-on, practical workshop designed for early-stage and small business owners who want to understand how AI can automate repetitive tasks, save time, and grow their business – without needing any technical background. This is not a lecture about what AI is. Through live demos and real-world case studies, participants will see exactly how AI automation works in practice – and leave with a clear action plan for their own business.

Date Friday 8 May 2026
Location Vulcan Works, Northampton
Duration 1-hour group session (presentation + live demos) + 30-minute individual consultation slots
Audience Vulcan Creatives cohort — early-stage business owners.
Requirements Just turn up — no laptop or setup needed
Facilitator Olushola Oladipupo — Founder, WorkCrew Ltd; Solutions Architect, AWS

What’s Covered: Group Session (60 minutes)

• AI Tools That Actually Matter — A no-jargon tour of the tools that save real businesses real time: ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and automation platforms. What each one does best, and which one fits your business.

• Live Demo: AI in Action — Watch a real AI system take a customer order via WhatsApp, write it to a spreadsheet, calculate the total, and notify the business owner — all automatically. Built by WorkCrew for a real UK food business.

• Live Demo: From Idea to Automation in Minutes — See how a simple business task (email replies, social media posts, lead follow-ups) gets automated live on screen — start to finish, no coding.

• The 10-Hour Framework — A simple method to audit your week, identify the tasks AI can handle, and prioritise which to automate first. Most business owners find 10+ hours of automatable work they didn’t realise they had.

Individual Consultations (30 minutes each) After the group session, each participant gets a private 30-minute slot with Shola to discuss their specific business challenges and get a personalised AI action plan. This is where the real value lands — tailored advice for your exact situation.

What Participants Walk Away With

• A clear understanding of which AI tools actually matter for their business (and which are hype)
• A personalised AI action plan from the 1:1 consultation
• The 10-Hour Framework worksheet — a reusable template for identifying automatable tasks
• A curated resource list of free and low-cost AI tools relevant to small businesses
• Clarity on which AI tools are worth paying for and which are free
• Confidence to experiment with AI independently after the session

Ideal For
• Business owners who have heard about AI but don’t know where to start
• Founders spending hours on repetitive tasks (emails, social media, admin, customer queries)
• Anyone who has used ChatGPT for blog writing but wants to go further
• Businesses that want to look and operate like a much bigger company — using AI as the multiplier