**About this Event:** Consider this first session an **"Espresso with Claude"**—a quick, concentrated shot of building to trial things out before we launch our regular 2027 routine (every 2nd Tuesday and last Thursday of the month). We are moving past general chat and getting hands-on with AI to supercharge our businesses. AI moves too fast to test everything alone, so we use a **Divide & Conquer** format to pool our collective brainpower. Whether you are a total beginner or a seasoned developer, pick a role that fits your comfort level: * **🕵️‍♂️ The Scouts (Beginner-Friendly):** Use Claude to build automated **marketing funnels**, generate **social media video assets**, or build simple **screen-scraping workflows** to pull local customer leads into a spreadsheet. * **🛠️ The Sappers (Tech-Savvy):** Use Claude Code to build technical prototypes, set up **back-office automations (webhooks/APIs)**, connect databases, or build deep dynamic web scrapers. **Low Pressure, High Value** There are no boring lectures or whiteboards. You spend an hour testing a specific tool or workflow for **your own real project**, and in the final 30 minutes, we do a casual round-the-table chat to share shortcuts and warnings. Finding out a tool is a clunky waste of time is just as valuable to the group as finding a hack! **What to bring:** * Your laptop (fully charged, though tables have plugs). * A real side-hustle idea or project you want to automate. * A multi-plug extension lead if you have one (you'll be the group hero). Grab a coffee or a drink from the ground floor bar and join us at the large wooden study tables upstairs on the first floor. Let’s build a shared automation playbook before the Christmas break!

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