AI workshops for small business owners and teams, in Melbourne or online
Half a day on your real work, not a slide deck about AI. You leave with one job already handed over.
Whale Digital Consulting runs hands-on AI workshops for Australian small businesses. We use your actual admin, quotes and marketing as the exercises, so the workshop ends with something running, not a list of ideas.
Who this is for, and who it isn't
Owners who do their own admin. Small teams, one to twenty people, where the same three jobs keep sliding. Sole traders who've tried ChatGPT and stopped, because typing the same background in every time got old.
You're exactly who this AI workshop is for.
That's a diagnosis day, not a workshop.
On-site in Melbourne or online across Australia, in English or Chinese. Team sessions cap at twelve people.
It isn't a course for people who want to learn AI in general. It isn't for teams that need a certificate. And we don't run it for a room of forty; past about twelve people, nobody gets their own job worked on.
What an AI workshop actually looks like
You bring one job, not a topic
A monthly report, a quote, an inbox answering the same question all week. Whichever one you bring, the session runs the same way, because the method is what's being taught, not the tool.
No theory block at the start. No tool tour.
The first hour is spent watching how the job gets done today, because that's the part every AI workshop skips and the part that decides whether anything sticks.
The four questions
We teach the four questions we use on every build: what is, what if, what wows, what works. Learn those and you can keep going after we leave.
If it's a bad fit, we say so on the day
Some jobs shouldn't be handed to AI at all, and you're better off hearing that in hour two than finding out in month three. That's why we ask you to bring a spare: when it happens, we put the rest of the session into that one instead.
Workshop, not talk
A talk leaves you with notes. This ends with a workflow already running on your own data, and a method you can point at the next job. That's the whole difference.
What job can you bring?
Documents and meetings
The recap nobody writes up. The report you rebuild from scratch every month. Bring the recording or last month's version and leave with the draft coming out the way you'd have written it.
Numbers you chase
The export you tidy up before you can even read it. We take the file you already download and turn it into the two numbers you actually check on a Monday.
Quotes and follow-ups
Photos and notes in, a draft quote out, and the follow-up that never gets sent. You still read it before it goes, and that part doesn't change.
The same question, again
Enquiry emails, booking questions, review replies. Drafted from your own words and your own prices, so the answer sounds like you and not like a bot.
Posts you keep meaning to write
One job, one product, one week's news, turned into a caption and a page section in your voice. Nothing goes out until you send it.
Rosters and who's on
The weekly shuffle you do by text after someone calls in sick. Bring last week's roster and the rules you keep in your head, and we'll get the first draft written for you to fix rather than build.
Bring one of these, or bring something that isn't on the list — and have a second one in your back pocket. If the first turns out to be a poor fit for AI, we'll say so on the day and put the time into the spare rather than build it anyway.
What you leave with
One workflow running
Built on your own data during the session, not a demo. It's doing the job before you leave the room.
The next jobs, ranked
Whatever else surfaced on the day, listed and ranked by time given back, including the ones we'd tell you not to bother automating.
The four-question method
Written down, one page, so you can run it on the next job without us in the room.
Your context, written down once
Your prices, your tone, the things you always end up explaining. Captured once, so you stop retyping it into a chat box every time.
What we tried and dropped
The approaches that didn't hold up on the day, and why. It stops you paying to rediscover them in three months.
A person still in charge
Every workflow ends with someone reading the output. That's taught, not assumed. We don't hand out a certificate. We hand over a workflow that's already doing the job, which tends to be the thing people actually wanted.
We use it on ourselves first
We build our own tools before we teach them
Our dashboard, our bookings demo and our free tools are things we built and use ourselves. The workshop teaches the version that survived contact with a real business, ours, including the parts we had to throw out.
Why every workshop ends with something running
So when we say an AI workshop should end with something running, it's because that's the only kind we've found worth the day.
What it costs
The first conversation is free, 15 to 30 minutes, in Melbourne or online. Workshops are quoted once we know the format, the headcount and the job you're bringing.
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Questions we get asked
15 to 30 minutes, free, in Melbourne or online. Tell us the job, we'll tell you which format fits, and whether a workshop is even the right call.
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