AI Speaker & Workshop for Small Business Owners
Owners leave with five-part prompts for customers, marketing, their website and their operations.
Chris Sund leads a hands-on AI workshop for chambers of commerce, small business weeks, SBDC events and entrepreneur groups. Take Back Your Time with AI shows owners six places AI saves real hours: finding customers, answering requests, strengthening their website, creating marketing, organizing operations and writing down how the business runs. No technical background needed, nothing to buy, and every result checked by the owner before it goes out.
Why are chambers and small business groups booking AI workshops right now?
Small business owners are the people AI should help most and the people with the least time to figure it out. They are the salesperson, the marketer, the office manager and the trainer. Most have tried ChatGPT once, got a bland answer and decided it was not for them.
A chamber or SBDC event that hands them a working method, real examples and one task to try Monday is a program members remember and come back for.
Practical, not theoretical
Every example is a real small business task: a customer request, a slow website, a finished job nobody posted about.
No budget required
ChatGPT and Claude have free and low-cost plans. The workshop is not a pitch for any software.
Works across industries
Retail, services, trades, professional firms and restaurants all fit, because the six areas are the same in every small business.
One task by Monday
Nobody leaves with a list of twenty ideas. Each owner commits to one task and writes it down.
Six places AI gives a small business owner time back
The workshop is built on six areas. Here they are for small business owners. Each card links to a full guide with the prompt.
Find Revenue
Find customers before they go shopping.
AI searches public sources in your area for new businesses, expansions, events and requests for recommendations, and suggests one next step for each lead.
Read the guide→02Win Work
Answer every request the same day.
Paste in the inquiry. AI lists what you still need to know, drafts a friendly reply with clear questions, and helps build a quote from prices you approved.
Read the guide→03Strengthen Your Website
Pass the 10-second website test.
Can a customer tell what you do, who you serve, why to trust you and what to do next? AI reviews your site like a customer and ranks the five changes that bring more inquiries.
Read the guide→04Create Marketing
One good job, five posts.
A finished project or happy customer becomes a website story, a Google Business post, a social post, a customer email and a one-page sales sheet. Create it once, schedule the month.
Read the guide→05Organize Operations
Notes to next steps.
Meeting notes, texts and scattered emails become a clear action list with owners and dates, so nothing falls through while you are busy running the business.
Read the guide→06Build Repeatable Processes
Write down how the business runs.
You talk through a task for ten minutes. AI turns it into a step-by-step SOP a new hire can follow, and marks anything unclear for you to fill in.
Read the guide→Tell AI Five Things
Every prompt in the session follows the same five-part structure, so attendees can write their own after they leave. Here it is with small business examples. The full framework is on Tell AI Five Things: The Five-Part Prompt.
Role
Who is it?“Act as a customer.”
Task
What should it do?“Review my website.”
Details
What should it know?“Here is the link.”
Format
What should it make?“The five most important fixes.”
Guardrails
What must it avoid?“Do not invent services.”
Role+Task+Details+Format+Guardrails
If the first result is weak, add the detail you left out.
Example prompt: review your website like a customer
This is the website-review prompt from the workshop, written for any small business. Copy it, replace the bracketed text and paste your site link.
The human review step. The owner reads the five recommendations, checks them against what the business actually offers, and picks the one to change first. Do not ask for 50 ideas. Ask for the five that matter most, then decide.
More prompts, grouped by the six areas, are in the free AI Prompt Library for Business Owners.
Keynote, half day or full day
Every format is delivered in person. A keynote fits a chamber luncheon, annual meeting or small business week general session. The half-day and full-day workshops fit SBDC programs, entrepreneur groups and member education series.
The six areas in one session
The framework, live small business examples from all six areas, and the Monday Morning close. Works as a general session or a breakout.
Hands-on with your own work
Attendees bring the tasks that eat their week and build their own prompts with the five-part framework, then test them on real small business examples.
Teams build their own workflows
A hands-on workshop where teams build and test their own workflows across the six areas and leave with a written plan for who uses what, starting Monday.
Tailored to your members
Before the event, Chris rewrites the examples around the businesses in your membership, so a room of retailers, contractors, service firms and restaurants each sees their own work on the screen.
The field guide
Attendees get the field guide with every prompt, the worksheets and a simple Monday plan. Chris sends it to the host as a PDF after the event to share with everyone who attended.
Tool-neutral
Every prompt runs in ChatGPT or Claude. No software to buy, no IT project, nothing to install.
Built for the people who run small businesses
Owners, managers and small teams who do the selling, marketing and operations themselves.
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Chamber and business rooms, plus a proven AI session
Chris has spoken to chamber and business audiences in Nebraska: the Greater Omaha Chamber Young Professionals Workshop, the Greater Omaha Chamber’s POWER Conference, and the emPower Breakfast series in Bellevue, and he is the featured speaker at the emPower Breakfast in Lincoln on October 15, 2026. Those sessions cover motivation, hiring and handling objections.
The AI workshop itself closed the MICA 2026 Fall Business Meetings for a room of business owners, and runs again at the NFBA Conference & Expo 2027.
His topics are well researched, and he weaves in practical tips and real-life examples that make every session realistic and relatable.
Chris consistently brings knowledge, insight, and practical advice to every presentation, elevating the value he brings to every engagement.
Chris would be an incredible addition to any live audience. Each time he finds a unique way to connect on both a personal and professional level, keeping everyone engaged and attentive.
What Chamber and Small Business Planners Ask
Do attendees need AI experience?
No. The session starts with a five-part prompt, Tell AI Five Things, and builds from there, so people who have never opened ChatGPT can follow along. People who already use AI leave with better prompts, clear guardrails and a way to check the results.
Which AI tools does the session use?
ChatGPT and Claude. Every prompt runs in either one, and Chris shows the work in both. Nobody is asked to buy new software or install anything.
Is our data safe?
The session teaches guardrails for exactly that. Decide in advance what information is approved to share, leave out customer names and sensitive details unless you have permission, check the data settings on the account you use, follow your organization’s policies, write prompts that forbid AI from inventing prices or facts, and have a person review every output before it goes out.
Can it be tailored to our members’ businesses?
Yes. The six areas and the framework stay the same. Before the event, Chris rewrites the examples around the industries in your membership, so owners see their own customers, requests and documents.
Do you sell software?
No. Chris is COO of Nebula, an AI talent sourcing platform, which is part of why he uses these tools every day, but the workshop is tool-neutral and is not a pitch for Nebula or any other product.
Keynote or workshop: which should we book?
A keynote fits a general session or breakout: the framework, live examples from all six areas and the Monday Morning close. A half-day or full-day workshop is hands-on: teams bring their own tasks and build and test their own workflows before they leave. Many groups pair a keynote for the full room with a workshop for a leadership or member group.
Stages I Have Spoken On
