Agentic AI Onboarding for Small Businesses and Solo Entrepreneurs (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second session of a 2-part workshop. Part 1 takes place on Wednesday, November 11.
You’ve seen what AI agents can do. Now take the next step: learn how to use them more effectively, choose the right tools for your business, and work with them safely. This session builds on Part 1 with practical techniques, live demonstrations, and useful tools to help small business owners and solo entrepreneurs work smarter.
What You’ll Learn
- Review and build on Session 1: Revisit the fundamentals of agentic AI and key takeaways from the previous demonstrations.
- Organize your business files with AI: Watch an AI agent organize a folder of business documents, and learn how to prevent accidental file changes, deletions, or data loss.
- Practical tips for working with AI: Actionable techniques to improve your AI workflow and get better results.
- Level up your AI toolkit: Tools and capabilities that help small businesses streamline everyday tasks.
We’ll wrap up with an interactive fireside chat, so bring your most pressing questions about AI agents.
Who Should Attend?
Small business owners, solo entrepreneurs, independent professionals, and early-stage founders who want practical ways to apply AI to their businesses. No coding experience required.
What You’ll Need
- A laptop (Mac or Windows)
- An active paid AI subscription (Claude or ChatGPT) so you can follow along with the demonstrations
About the Speaker
Gordon Cheng is a New York-based product designer who teaches non-programmers to hand real work to AI agents. He runs a one-person business himself. Before moving into product design, he spent more than a decade in advertising at Ogilvy, Dentsu, BBDO and ByteDance, and has since led a series of hands-on AI agent workshops.
This workshop is part of the 2027 Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge online workshop series. Participants have a chance to win up to a $20K grant for their startup. Applications are due March 1, 2027. Learn more at queensstartup.org.
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