AI Workflow Lab for Small Business: Find Your Best 3 Automations

Every week brings another AI app claiming to revolutionize your operations. The reality for most small business owners isn't massive efficiency—it's subscription fatigue, scattered notes, and tools that team members abandon after three days. Hosted by SoCal Business Innovation Hub at the Lake Elsinore Cultural Arts Center, this 2-hour working intensive helps owners, operators, and service professionals move from aimless AI experimentation to targeted, high-return execution. You will not sit through software demos, generic tool roundups, or technical coding tutorials. Instead, you will map your active business operations using our structured pen-and-paper audit framework: • Audit Operational Leaks: Pinpoint recurring time drains across sales follow-ups, client onboarding, recurring email drafts, and manual administrative handoffs. • Apply the 5-Point Workflow Filter: Separate tasks AI should Automate or Assist from high-stakes judgment calls that must Stay Human. • Conduct a Practical Risk Review: Establish simple guardrails around client confidentiality, data privacy, and mandatory human checkpoints before testing any tool. • Build Your 30-Day Execution Roadmap: Walk away with your top 3 prioritized automation opportunities and an immediate action plan to test the first one next week. WHAT ATTENDEES WALK AWAY WITH • The Business Workflow Inventory: A visual map of recurring tasks across marketing, sales, client communication, and administration. • The AI Opportunity Scorecard: An objective ranking formula evaluating workflows by frequency, time cost, business impact, and execution risk. Workflow Risk & Governance Rubric: Clear boundaries detailing what data should never touch public AI assistants. • Your 30-Day AI Implementation Plan: A 1-page operational test sheet complete with baseline metrics, human review milestones, and review dates. • Post-Event Digital Toolkit: Editable digital templates delivered to your inbox to run this audit internally with your staff. VENUE, PARKING & LOGISTICS • Venue: Lake Elsinore Cultural Arts Center, 183 North Main Street, Lake Elsinore, CA 92530. • Parking: Free surface parking is available on-site and along North Main Street and adjacent municipal lots. • Format & Technology: No laptop is required. All exercises are conducted using structured, pen-and-paper strategic worksheets provided at check-in. • Data Privacy: Participants work with generalized process maps. Do not bring or upload sensitive customer, payroll, or proprietary company records.