California Owners, Winning With AI Is Coming
Fresno to Fremont, Chula Vista to Chico, the backlog looks the same: texts nobody answered, a bid left half finished, a calendar that took four calls to sort out. Bring whatever you run, a taqueria, a body shop, a dental office, a two-person cleaning crew, and put the tools on it that night.
What is the seminar in California?
Winning With AI is one in-person evening in California, built for owners of every kind of business: a nail salon in Sacramento, a roofing crew in Riverside, an accounting office in San Jose, someone shipping orders out of a Long Beach garage. In plain English you learn to put AI on customer questions, lead follow-up, quotes and proposals, marketing, scheduling, and routine paperwork. There is no coding, nothing to install, and no course or subscription waiting at the end. Early-bird seats are $49 while they last, and if you sit through the evening and it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
- Three hundred miles of Highway 99: Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, and Stockton each run their own downtown trade, and none of them behaves like the coast.
- Two giant metros at opposite ends: the Los Angeles basin and the Bay Area sit close to 400 miles apart, with San Diego to the south and Sacramento inland, so one owner's customers rarely all live in one county.
- Small payrolls run the place: the typical California business is a handful of people, a truck, a storefront, or a spare room with a laptop in it.
- Traffic sets the shape of the day. An hour on the 405 or the 5 is normal, which is why so much of a California week gets handled from a phone in a parked car.
Which cities in California have a seminar page?
- Los Angeles, CA · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
- San Diego, CA · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
What happens on the night in California?
One night, one room, one screen at the front with the tools open. Nobody writes code and nobody buys software on the way out. The jobs that eat a California week get done live: answering the same question for the ninth time, pricing a job at ten at night, putting together a month of posts in one sitting. You follow along on your own laptop or phone with your own business in front of you.
Mike Filsaime is the one teaching. He spent 25 years building companies, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar among them, and he refuses to talk in tech vocabulary. Everything is worked live at the front of the room, which means you walk out holding the actual wording that made it work, not notes about it.
How business actually works in California
California is really several states stacked together. The Los Angeles basin spreads from Long Beach up through the San Fernando Valley, and trade there runs street by street: Ventura Boulevard, Vermont Avenue, Whittier Boulevard. Two hours inland, the Coachella Valley and the high desert live on a completely different calendar.
Up the middle, the Central Valley towns line up along Highway 99 with Sacramento at the top and Bakersfield at the bottom. Summer heat and harvest weeks swing how busy a Valley main street gets, and January leaves quiet stretches owners spend catching up on everything that slid. Both halves of that swing are where these tools pay: one soaks up the volume, the other clears the backlog.
The Bay Area, the Central Coast, and the far north are their own worlds again. An owner in Salinas, Santa Rosa, or Redding covers real distance between customers and suppliers, and rents in Oakland or San Jose leave no room for an extra desk. Anything you can finish on a phone between stops matters more here than software that needs you sitting down with a spare hour.
How California businesses use AI right now
Answering customer questions. In California the same inquiry lands at nine at night from three places at once, a web form, a text, and a DM, and whoever replies first usually gets the job. AI drafts the answer in your own wording and keeps a live list of who has not heard back.
Following up so a lead does not go cold. Someone prices a job in February and pulls the trigger in July. The system holds that list, tells you when the wait is up, and writes the check-in so it actually leaves your outbox.
Turning notes into a quote. Walk the job, say six messy sentences into your phone, and get back a clean estimate or proposal on your template with your terms. Read it, fix what is off, send it before you merge back onto the freeway.
Producing marketing in batches. One sitting gives you a month of posts, a couple of emails, and the copy for a flyer or a menu insert, all about what you actually sell.
Cutting the scheduling back-and-forth, plus the written admin nobody has time for: confirmations, reminders, reschedules, and the summaries, checklists, work instructions, and standard documents you retype from scratch.
A real piece of the evening covers what to keep away from it. You set prices, not the machine. Same for any hard conversation with an unhappy customer, and anything your reputation rides on, because a bad sentence sent by a bot in a market this crowded costs more than the minutes it saved.
What do California attendees take home?
- Six Jobs, Done On Screen. Each job is done live with the prompt up on the screen, then you run it on your own business while the room is still full. You copy the wording down as it is typed.
- No Code, No Jargon. No prior experience is required anywhere in this. If you can type a message to a customer, you can do everything the evening asks of you.
- A Room With Every Trade In It. Contractors, restaurant and food truck owners, salons, gyms, repair shops, landscapers, cleaners, real estate agents, accountants, law offices, dental and medical offices, nonprofits, online sellers, agencies, and a lot of one-person operations. The tools do not care what you sell.
- The Line You Do Not Cross. Pricing decisions, angry-customer conversations, and anything touching your reputation stay with a person. You leave knowing exactly where that line sits.
- Nothing Sold At The Door. No course, no subscription, no back-room pitch. Early-bird seats are $49 while they last, and if the evening is not right for you, say so before you leave and the registration fee is refunded.
What do people who have seen this say about it?
My project lead was wearing too many hats, and the team felt it. This one event showed us how AI could take that work off people's plates. The impact on our sanity has been massive.
Thank you for your incredible knowledge and insight. It made a powerful impact. I don't take anyone's time lightly, least of all someone with your level of marketing genius.
He'll not only make it simple, he'll make it very profitable.
When I saw what Winning With AI could do, I knew we had to move fast. Work that used to drag out for three months now gets delivered by my team in two or three days.
What do people in California ask about the seminar?
Which California cities will the Winning With AI seminar come to?
Dates are being lined up for the state's main metro areas, the Los Angeles area, the Bay Area, San Diego, Sacramento, and the Central Valley among them. Pre-register and you hear first when a room near you is booked, and you hold the $49 early-bird rate.
I run a small business in California and I am not a tech person. Can I keep up?
Yes. Everything is typed in ordinary English, the way you would walk a new hire through a job. Mike works each example in front of the room and takes questions as they come. Nothing needs installing beforehand.
Is the California seminar aimed at certain kinds of businesses?
No. It is for owners of every type. A taqueria in Fresno, a mobile detailing crew in Riverside, a bookkeeping office in Palo Alto, and a shop that ships from a garage in Chula Vista all sit in the same room, because the same handful of jobs eat all of their weeks.
What does a California seat cost, and what if the evening does nothing for me?
Early-bird registration is $49 while seats last. Attend, and if it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
Is there anything a California owner should keep away from AI?
Yes, and it gets its own stretch of the evening. Setting prices, sorting out a dispute with an unhappy customer, and anything your reputation rides on stay with you. Knowing where that line falls matters as much as the tools do.
Where do the California dates sit in the wider program?
Every California room is one stop on the Winning With AI program, the touring live AI seminar Mike Filsaime teaches one evening at a time in cities across the United States. The teacher, the demonstrations, and the money-back guarantee are the same in every city; the examples change to match the businesses sitting in the room.