How to cut costs and boost efficiency with AI, win more business with marketing strategies, and accelerate growth with strategic investment.

Most businesses in the region are carrying cost they cannot see and chasing growth with tools built for a different decade. AI has changed what a small team can do, and very few owners have had the time to work out what that means for them. One morning, four subjects and the people who work on them every day. The four sessions will cover:

Efficiency with AI. Where the hours and cost actually sit, which processes are worth handling to automation first, and what a small team can do that it could not do two years ago.

Your marketing ecosystem. Why brand, website, search, content and paid media only work as a system, what being found in the age of AI search now takes, and what disconnected parts do to cost per lead.

CRM and a real sales process. What a CRM should be telling you about your pipeline, why the process running through it matters more than the software, and how a team gets from enquiry to signed work consistently.

Funding and investment. How growth gets funded when cash flow will not stretch to it, what backers and buyers look for, and why acquisition is often faster than building the same capability yourself.

What You Take Away

Not theory. Five things you can act on in the week after the event.

✅ A shortlist of things to automate: The processes worth handling to AI first, the ones to leave alone, and a sense of what each is costing you now.

✅ A clearer view of your marketing: Which parts of your marketing are pulling their weight, which are not, and what to fix first.

✅ A sharper sales process: What good looks like from enquiry to close, and the questions to ask of your own pipeline on Monday.

✅ How growth gets funded: The routes to funding an acquisition or a growth plan, and what backers and buyers actually look for.

✅ A room worth being in: Owners and directors from across the region, plus the people behind the businesses on the pitchside boards. Every speaker stays for the networking, so the follow up happens on the day rather than by email.

Supporting Magpas Air Ambulance

The morning is run in support of Magpas Air Ambulance, with a prize draw on the day.

Do more. Spend less. Grow faster.

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