Bring Your Laptop: Winning With AI in Iowa
Ninety-nine counties, and a workday in Sioux City looks nothing like one in Dubuque except for the part where the paperwork waits until dark. Bring your own laptop and your own real work. You leave having done the thing instead of having watched it.
What is the seminar in Iowa?
Winning With AI is a live evening seminar held in Iowa, open to owners of every kind of business, whatever you sell and however small the operation. A Cedar Falls electrician, a diner on the square in Pella, a Davenport law office, a Council Bluffs gym, a Waterloo nonprofit, and a one-person shop selling online out of Ames all work through the same material: answering customer questions, following up so leads do not go cold, turning notes into quotes and proposals, producing marketing in batches, cutting the scheduling back-and-forth, and handling routine written admin. Mike Filsaime teaches it, in plain English, with no code, no jargon, and no experience assumed. No course and no subscription gets sold once the evening ends. Early-bird seats are $49 while they last, and if you attend and it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
- Iowa is cut into ninety-nine counties, and most county seats still work as their own small trade center.
- The state sits between two rivers, the Missouri on the west edge and the Mississippi on the east, and driving across takes most of a morning and part of an afternoon.
- Des Moines and the suburbs beside it, West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, and Waukee, hold the largest concentration of customers anywhere in the state.
- The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City corridor, the Quad Cities on the Mississippi, Sioux City in the far west, and Dubuque up in the northeast each anchor a region of their own.
Which cities in Iowa have a seminar page?
- Cedar Rapids, IA · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
- Des Moines, IA · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
What happens on the night in Iowa?
The question most Iowa owners bring is a simple one: what does this actually do for me on a Tuesday. The evening answers it by working through real jobs on screen, in order, with nothing installed and nothing sold at the door. Then you repeat each one on your own device, on your own business, before you go.
Mike Filsaime is teaching. He has spent twenty-five years building companies, among them Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar, and he keeps every bit of it in plain English. The examples are worked live in the room, so you go home holding the wording that worked rather than a note to look it up later.
How business actually works in Iowa
Des Moines and the west side are where the state's daily trade concentrates. Downtown and the East Village run on office hours, while West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, and Waukee keep spreading outward, and one crew can serve all of them from a single shop.
The eastern corridor is a market of its own. Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Coralville sit close enough to share customers, the Quad Cities straddle the Mississippi, and the bluffs and downtown in Dubuque draw weekend traffic from three states.
West and north the distances open up. Sioux City works with Nebraska and South Dakota right next door, Council Bluffs does business in Omaha's shadow, Ames and Cedar Falls swell and quiet with the school year, and the county seats between them fill up on sale days. Owners covering that territory answer their email from a truck cab.
How Iowa businesses use AI right now
The same customer questions, answered without typing them out again. Hours, price, whether you will drive to Newton. The reply comes back in your voice and you can see who is still waiting.
Follow-up that actually happens. A caller in April who goes quiet and turns up again at harvest stays on the list, and the check-in gets written for you before the trail goes cold.
Notes turned into a quote you can send. Say the job out loud in a driveway in Grimes and get an estimate back on your own form with your own terms, ready to correct and send.
Marketing produced in one sitting. Enough posts for the month, a few emails, and the copy for a flyer or a window sign, written about your own work rather than generic filler.
Fewer messages to settle a time. Confirmations, reminders, and reschedules get drafted, along with the routine written admin: summaries, checklists, instructions for new help, and the standard documents you keep retyping.
The evening also draws the line you should not cross. Pricing takes judgment and stays yours. So does any conversation with a customer who is already upset, and anything with your reputation attached to it.
What do Iowa attendees take home?
- You Do The Work, Not Just Watch. Every move gets demonstrated on screen and then done by you, on your own business, while there is still somebody there to answer questions.
- Plain English The Whole Way. No code, no acronyms, no assumed background. You describe what you want the way you would describe it to a person, and that is the whole skill.
- Every Type Of Business Welcome. Shops, restaurants, salons, gyms, contractors, repair crews, landscapers, cleaners, real estate agents, accountants, law offices, dental and medical offices, nonprofits, online sellers, agencies, and owners running the whole show alone.
- What Stays In Your Hands. Pricing judgment, difficult customer conversations, and anything reputational never get handed off. The evening spends real time on that boundary.
- Priced At $49 Early-Bird, With A Guarantee. Nothing is sold at the door, no course and no subscription after. Attend, and if the evening is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
What do people who have seen this say about it?
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.
I'm a tougher critic, but Winning With AI blew me away. One idea showed me how to save thousands of dollars a month.
I had no coding experience. No technical background. Nothing. After seeing how to use AI in plain English, I built software and workflows that completely changed my company.
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.
What do people in Iowa ask about the seminar?
When is Winning With AI coming to Des Moines or another Iowa city?
Iowa dates are not locked yet. Des Moines and its suburbs are first in line, with Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, the Quad Cities, and Sioux City being worked out next. Pre-register and you get told before anyone else, and your $49 early-bird price is held.
Is the Iowa seminar built for one type of business?
Not at all. The mixed room is deliberate: contractors, shops, restaurants, salons, gyms, repair crews, landscapers, cleaners, real estate agents, accountants, law offices, dental and medical offices, nonprofits, online sellers, agencies, and single-person operations. Same chores, different sign on the door.
Do I need any technical background to keep up at the Iowa evening?
None. You type ordinary sentences, the same way you would explain a task to somebody new on the job. Questions come from the room all night and there is nothing to install ahead of time.
How much is a seat at the Iowa seminar, and what if it misses the mark?
Seats are $49 early-bird while they remain. Attend the evening, and if it was not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
What work should an Iowa business keep away from AI?
Pricing judgment, difficult customer conversations, and anything that could affect your reputation. Those stay with a person, and the evening spends time on exactly where that edge falls.
Where do the Iowa dates sit in the wider program?
Every Iowa room is one stop on Winning With AI live seminars, 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.