Practical help getting AI actually working in a small business — taught slowly, on your own jobs, by someone who uses these tools every day to run four businesses.
Twenty minutes, no charge. I'll tell you honestly if it won't help you.
You have read the articles. You may have opened one of these things, typed something, got back a paragraph of waffle, and closed it again.
That is the normal experience, and it is not your fault. These tools are handed to people with no instructions and no worked examples, in an industry that would rather sell you a strategy than show you a job being done.
Meanwhile the quotes are absurd. An agency will charge a small business five figures for an “AI readiness assessment” that ends in a slide deck. You do not need an assessment. You need a few hours with somebody patient, working on your own real work.
On their phones, with no rules, pasting who-knows-what into it. The question is not whether it is in your business. It is whether anybody set the rules.
The paperwork that takes you an evening takes them twenty minutes. Not because they are cleverer — because somebody showed them.
You are running a business. You need the shortest honest path from nothing to useful, and then to be left alone to get on with it.
I am seventy-two. I had a stroke in 2025 and it took most of my short-term memory. I cannot reliably recall what I read fifteen minutes ago.
In the year since, working four hours a morning and stopping at midday, I have built four websites, published two books, set up an online shop that takes card payments and calculates New York sales tax correctly, and installed and documented an enterprise security monitoring platform across five machines.
I did none of it from memory. I did all of it one written page at a time, with something patient sitting next to me.
That is what I teach. Not what the technology might do one day — what it does on a Tuesday morning, on the jobs you have been putting off.
We sit down together with your own work in front of us — your quotes, your emails, your documents. By the end of the session you have done real jobs yourself, you have written rules about what must never be typed in, and you have a sheet you can follow again on Monday without me.
Sometimes you do not want to learn it, you want it done. A specific piece of work, produced and delivered finished, at a fixed price agreed before anything starts. Website text, a set of standard replies, a hundred product descriptions, a pile of documents read and summarised.
I will not tell you AI is going to transform your business, because for some businesses it barely moves the needle. If your week is welding, this will help with quotes and paperwork and almost nothing else — and I would rather say so in the free twenty minutes than take your money and disappoint you. I also do not sell software, take commission from anybody, or recommend a platform. If the free version of a tool does the job, I will tell you to use the free version.
For people who already know what they want. If you don't yet, start with the free conversation instead — I would rather you bought the right thing.





Every one of these is professional services — teaching and consulting time. No sales tax applies. You pay by card and get a receipt; if a job needs a written quote first, ring me and we will do it that way instead.
A plain-English guide to actually using AI in a small business. Written at seventy-two, after a stroke, in ten one-hour lessons.
Exactly what I do, in the order I do it, written so it can be followed by somebody who has never typed a word into one of these things. No code. No jargon. No hype. One hour a day for ten days, on your own real work.
Every client gets a copy the day we start, at no charge. It is also on Amazon if you would rather just buy it and get on with it yourself.
Michael M. Rozov. Twenty years installing enterprise monitoring systems inside banks and utilities — and, just as often, being the man who had to explain them afterwards.
Goldman Sachs, Chase Manhattan, Bank of New York, Dow Jones, Bear Stearns, Mizuho, Verizon, the New York City Housing Police. My job was rarely just the installation. It was training the people who had to live with it once I left.
At Mizuho I was hired as a technical writer during a large migration. Reading the plan, I saw the design would strand every future branch in its own isolated domain forest and force a fresh start at each location later. I said so. The implementation was stopped, the foundation corrected, and the group avoided a cost well over a million dollars — several years before Microsoft shipped the feature that would have rescued them.
I did not write the code. I read the plan and asked the awkward question. That is the same job I am doing now, with different tools.
Twenty minutes on the telephone. No charge, no obligation, nothing to sign.
Tell me what your business does and where the time goes. I will tell you honestly whether this would help you and roughly what it would take — including, sometimes, “not much, and here is the one free thing to try first.”