Fast Company

Zapier

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Anna Burgess Yang

Solopreneur Operations Expert

The Tools You Need to Run a Solo Business

Some tools are necessary because they make work easier or help you appear more professional to clients. 

Learn the types of tools worth paying for

In some cases, you can get away with free tiers. Learn how to pick a free tool and when to upgrade. 

Identify when free plans are good enough

Walk through how to evaluate a new tool before you pay for it.

Determine what additional tools your business needs

Build Your AI Business Control Center with Claude Cowork

AI Strategist | Former CIO | Professor

Salesforce

UNLV

UCSF

Nadia Hansen

Former CIO turned Global AI Strategist 

Cohort 6

Cohort 7

<blockquote>Most small business owners &amp; solopreneurs don’t need another AI prompt list.You need a system to help you see what’s happening in the business, follow up faster, manage cash flow, and stop losing hours to admin work after everyone else has logged off.In this live workshop, you’ll use Claude Cowork and Claude’s small business workflows to build 5 practical AI agents for your business:<ul><li>A prospecting agent</li><li>A chief of staff agent</li><li>A lead follow-up agent</li><li>A marketing/social media agent</li><li>An email responder agent</li></ul>You’ll learn how to connect your business context, create reusable agent instructions, and design a weekly operating rhythm so Claude helps you run the business — not just write better emails.This is for solopreneurs, consultants, creators, local service businesses, agencies, coaches, and small teams who want more control without hiring a full-time operations person.By the end, you’ll leave with your own Small Business AI Control Center and a repeatable system you can use every week.</blockquote>

Build Claude agents for sales, finance, marketing, and ops so you can run your business with more clarity, speed, and confidence.

Every hour you spend on email, filing, and prep is an hour you're not billing.

Know which marketing actually drives revenue.

Spot cash flow problems before they hit.

Collect payments without awkward chasing.

We will need Claude Cowork to build these agents

Download Claude Desktop

Small Businesses &amp; Entrepreneurs

For non-technical professionals

Business Executives

Learn how to analyze your numbers and ultimately make smarter decisions that increase profits and put more cash in your pocket.

15+ year CFO working with SMBs

Kurtis Hanni

Owner of Bison CFO, with 15+ years experience as SMB CFO

Cohort 4

Cohort 5

Most business owners don’t need to become financial experts. They need clarity.They need to know:<ul><li>where money is leaking,</li><li>where margin is hiding, and</li><li>which decisions actually move profit and cash.</li></ul>This workshop is designed to give you that clarity FAST.Over five focused days, you’ll learn how to read your financials like a CFO, identify the biggest financial wins inside your existing business, and build a simple system you can use long after the workshop ends.This isn’t theory. It’s practical, applied, and built around real business decisions.If it doesn’t deliver real financial value to your business, you don’t pay. Guaranteed.

Stop guessing. Know exactly where profit and cash are hiding in your business.

Know why money always seems to “disappear”

Find hidden profit inside your existing business

Get a clear, practical path to better cash flow

Know which numbers actually matter for your business

Leave with a 90-day plan to improve profit and cash

Business owners who know money (profit) is being left on the table and want to stop losing money to preventable financial mistakes.

Business owners who feel like their business is working, but the bank account doesn't show it.

Business owners who are tired of guessing and want financial answers, so that their business rewards them, not drains them.

Go from full-time tech worker to successful solopreneur and launch your client-ready business in 2 weeks.

Tech pro who replaced salary going solo

GitHub

Neo4j

Vail

Clair Sullivan

20+ year tech veteran who who created a successful solo business from scratch.

Cohort 3

You're competing with thousands of applicants for every role, submitting hundreds of applications that go nowhere. Meanwhile, going out on your own feels terrifying because no one's shown you how to make money at it. You've got the skills companies need, but you're stuck applying instead of converting your expertise into income.Here's what I learned: I started my GenAI business in less than 24 hours and replaced my corporate income in less than a week. That timeline might not be typical, but here's what is: building your own business is often faster than landing another corporate job when you have the right framework. Most tech professionals waste months figuring this out alone. This course gives you the exact system. You'll learn how to calculate your required income, design the right business model for your expertise (freelance, consulting, fractional, or product), set up operations, develop a client acquisition strategy, and set rates. Complete the optional capstone and you'll go live with your business by the end of the course! Whether you're employed or laid off, you'll have everything you need to start generating revenue from your expertise.

Tech layoffs keep coming, and the job market is a nightmare

Apply the Financial Readiness Framework to determine your income requirements

Design your personalized solopreneur model for your tech expertise

Set up your business operations and infrastructure

Develop your client acquisition strategy and set competitive rates

A big portion of what we will be talking about is leveraging your network. So it will help to have worked a corporate job or two already.

Tech workers with a few years of experience working for a company/in corporate

Senior ICs and managers who are worried about layoffs and want to build a business that replaces their corporate salary.

Tech workers between jobs who want to replace their salary through independent work, not through another vulnerable corporate role.

Managers and ICs creating career stability who want to build a side business now that can become primary income if they get laid off.

You go from using AI for emails to running your whole business with it: your website, your numbers, your visibility, your next launch.

Ex-Meta · 3x founder · StratEngine AI

Samsung

Virgin Hyperloop

Deloitte

Eric Levine

Nontechnical founder running 3 companies solo with AI. 

The first cohort: 10 seats, the most access and the best price this course will ever have.

Founding Cohort

You run a real business. And every week, parts of it run without you: an agency writes your marketing, a freelancer touches the website, a stack of subscriptions moves your numbers around, and the work only you can do waits for your evenings. You already use AI for emails and brainstorming, and you can tell it should be doing far more than that. What nobody has shown you is how to point it at the actual operations of your business.That gap is what this course closes. Across six live classes, you take back the work you've been renting out: you rebuild your website, stand up your own analytics dashboard, make your business visible to Google and to AI assistants, automate the manual work, and plan your next launch. You don't need to become an engineer for any of it. You learn to direct AI the way you'd direct a capable team, with your judgment about your business doing the steering.And because you learn the skill underneath, you're never stuck with what you got. The same AI that builds each piece with you can fix it, improve it, and extend it whenever you decide your business needs more. That's the difference between being handed a setup and running the whole thing yourself.

You've figured out the chat box. Now run your whole business with it.

Relaunch your website yourself and change it whenever you want, for free

Build a live dashboard of your numbers and drop the BI subscription

Get found by Google and cited by AI assistants like ChatGPT

Automate the work you still do by hand, without adding another subscription

Put AI agents on recurring work and stay in control of them

Build your growth plan inside a real strategy engine, not a blank chat window

Mac or Windows from roughly 2020 or newer, with 8GB+ of memory. Not sure if yours qualifies? Message me before you enroll.

A reasonably modern computer

From about $20 a month. It's the AI you'll run your business with, and we set it up together in the Class 1 prep.

A paid Claude subscription

Any platform counts: Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, anything. You'll rebuild it as a site you own during the course.

An existing business and website

<blockquote>You use ChatGPT for emails and ideas, and know AI will matter to your business far more than that. You want to be ahead of it, not behind.</blockquote>

You own an established business and pay agencies, freelancers, or a stack of subscriptions to run the parts you can't do yourself.

You do everything yourself, by hand: the follow-ups, the reports, the website tweaks. Your evenings are the operations department.

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