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Work faster with AI — no team required

A practical course for entrepreneurs: the free and paid AI tools that replace the team you don't have yet — shown step by step on real business tasks, not tech demos.

Taught by Cynthia · Engineer & strategist · Speaker at UCalgary's Hunter Hub · Mentor at Haskayne School of Business

Small marketing workshop: founders seen from behind at a light oak table facing a whiteboard
The material I teach founders — coming to UCalgary's Hunter Hub this November
  • You're the marketer, writer, designer and admin
  • AI can take a shift
  • Every tool marked free or paid
  • No jargon, no coding

The full course — coming fall 2026

Six sessions, each one a working skill

Work Faster with AI — No Team Required follows the founder journey I'm presenting at UCalgary's Hunter Hub this November: research, brand, content, search, analytics, sales. Each module is a real task, done faster with AI.

01

The AI-first founder

The tool landscape in plain language: what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini each do best, when the free tier is genuinely enough, and the prompting basics that make everything else work.

ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Gemini — all free tiers

02

Market research & customer discovery

Build customer personas with ChatGPT, run competitor and market research with Perplexity, and mine competitor reviews for the gaps your value proposition should fill.

ChatGPT · Perplexity · paid tiers only where they earn it

03

Branding & content that sounds like you

Brand messaging, storytelling and visuals without a designer: emails, product descriptions and social captions in your voice — plus the prompts that stop AI from sounding like AI.

Canva AI · ChatGPT/Claude · CapCut

04

Your website, SEO & being found by AI

The basics of getting recommended — by Google and by ChatGPT. What AI search means for a small business, from someone who does this for clients every day.

Search Console · Perplexity · AI-visibility basics

05

Analytics, admin & automation

Measure what matters and hand off the busywork: the metrics that actually guide decisions, meeting notes that write themselves, and simple automations connecting your tools.

Google Analytics · Fireflies/Otter · Zapier/Make

06

Sales, follow-up & your AI stack

Turn interest into paying customers: AI-drafted outreach that stays human, then assemble your personal toolkit and a one-page workflow for your business. You leave with a system, not a list.

Capstone — your stack, your workflow

Founder-friendly pricing, announced at launch

One-time price, lifetime access — you pay once and the course is yours to revisit whenever you need it. The waitlist gets founder pricing.

Join the waitlist

No spam — one email when doors open.

Who it's for

Built for people running a business, not studying one

  • Solo founders and small teams wearing every hat
  • E-commerce, food, service and local businesses
  • Side-hustlers preparing to go full-time
  • No technical background needed — if you can use email, you're ready

Why me

I'm presenting this at UCalgary's Hunter Hub

I worked as an engineer for 10 years, and I've spent the last 10 in digital marketing — now running my own consultancy. I've taught founders at UCalgary's Hunter Hub — a mini-class on digital marketing and sales — and this November 25 I'm back to present this AI course. I also volunteer as a business mentor to student founders at the Haskayne School of Business. Everything in this course comes from my day-to-day work — the same tools I use in my own business.

Questions

Before you ask

Do I need paid AI subscriptions?

No. The course marks every tool free or paid, and free tiers cover most of it. Where paying is worth it, I say so — and where it isn't, I say that too.

How long do I have access?

Lifetime — you pay once and keep access. If I improve the course down the road, you get the improved version at no extra cost.

What if I'm not technical at all?

Perfect — that's who this is for. Every lesson is click-by-click on a real business task.

Stop doing jobs a tool can do.

Join the waitlist and be first in when the course opens — at the best price it will ever be.