Detroit: One Room, One Night, Winning With AI
Owners come in from Eastern Market stalls, Corktown kitchens, job sites out toward Redford, small offices along Woodward, and businesses run by one person out of a truck. Nobody is the wrong kind of business for this room.
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What is the seminar in Detroit, MI?
Winning With AI Detroit is one live evening in Michigan for business owners of every type, from one-person operations to twenty-person crews, with no trade left out. The evening works through AI for answering customers, following up on quotes, writing estimates, producing marketing in batches, easing scheduling, and clearing routine written admin. Plain English throughout, no coding, nothing to install first.
- Format: One evening, live and in person, in the Detroit area
- Who is in the room: Owners and managers from unrelated trades, including people running a business alone
- Taught by: Mike Filsaime, 25 years spent building companies, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar among them
- Covered: Replies, follow-up, estimates, marketing, scheduling, written admin, and the work to keep away from AI
- Cost: $49 early-bird while available, money-back guarantee
What does the evening in Detroit actually cover?
Nothing here is demonstrated on a made-up business. Bring the estimate you have not written, the voicemail from Saturday, the customer list nobody has touched since spring, and the booking that took eleven texts to pin down.
A tile setter from the east side, a salon owner in Ferndale, a bookkeeper in Grandmont, and somebody packing online orders in Hamtramck all use the same handful of moves, because the writing sitting behind those businesses is nearly identical.
The evening ends and that is the whole commitment. There is no course waiting in your inbox the next day, no monthly software to keep paying for, and nothing built that falls apart if you never get technical help.
Is AI worth it for a small business in Detroit, Michigan?
The evening earns its keep by staying narrow. It covers the written parts of running a business, since that is where these tools are genuinely useful, and it skips everything they are not.
There is a second list, and it matters as much: pricing judgment, the difficult customer conversation, anything that goes out under your name in public. Those stay in your hands, and the evening is direct about why.
You try it on your own work before you leave. Attend, and if it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
Why is this AI seminar built for Detroit businesses?
Business in Detroit is organized street by street. Eastern Market vendors, storefronts along Michigan Avenue, crews working out of Southwest, small offices in the New Center towers, and shops in Ferndale and Royal Oak are all chasing the same attention and the same short list of hours.
A Michigan spring compresses months of outdoor work into a short window. When the window is that tight, the estimate that goes out the same afternoon is the one still being considered.
The usual fix for being buried is another set of hands, and payroll does not always have room for one. This evening is aimed at the stretch before that, when the work has grown and the team has not.
What do Detroit attendees walk away with?
- Replies that go out the same day. A workable answer to the after-hours question, written before the day starts, so the customer is not sitting there waiting on you.
- The estimate leaves before you do. Notes from a walkthrough or a phone call become a written estimate you look over and send that afternoon.
- Marketing written in one sitting. Posts, emails, and listings produced in a batch instead of starting from nothing each week.
- Follow-up that keeps going without you. A repeatable way to circle back to everyone who asked a price once and never called again.
- The admin stops following you home. Checklists, summaries, instructions, and standard documents drafted out of writing you already have.
- The work AI has no business touching. A plain account of the pricing calls and the customer conversations that stay yours alone.
Who is the Detroit seminar for?
What owner-operators across metro Detroit get out of the Detroit evening
One person to a dozen, with the owner still selling, running the job, and doing the books.
- Take on more before you add payroll
- Keep up with messages during a busy stretch
- Get marketing out on a schedule
What trades and service crews get out of the Detroit evening
Contractors, cleaners, landscapers, movers, and repair outfits working across Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb.
- Write the estimate from the truck
- Circle back on quotes that went quiet
- Settle the schedule in fewer messages
What storefronts, kitchens, offices, and online sellers get out of the Detroit evening
Retail, restaurants, salons, gyms, dental and medical offices, law and accounting practices, nonprofits, agencies, and anyone shipping orders out of Detroit.
- Answer the same question instantly
- Write service descriptions faster
- Get back in front of past customers
How does a live seminar compare with free videos and an online course?
| This live seminar | Free online videos | Self-paced AI course | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | One evening in person near Detroit, and you can interrupt with a question. | You watch by yourself, and when it does not work there is nobody to ask. | Modules on your own time, which usually means unfinished. |
| Who belongs there | Any Detroit owner or manager, whatever the trade, whatever the size, no technical background assumed. | Made for a general audience, mostly people already comfortable with the tools. | Broad training that rarely matches how a small local business really runs. |
| Getting to a first result | You point the tools at your own backlog while you are still in the room. | Nothing bridges the gap between watching it and doing it. | Weeks of material tend to pass before any of it applies. |
| People in the room | Detroit-area owners from unrelated businesses comparing what worked. | No local context and nobody nearby to compare notes with. | A group chat exists, rarely with anyone from Southeast Michigan. |
| What it costs you | $49 early-bird while available, one evening, money-back guarantee. | No charge, unless you count the hours lost telling good advice from bad. | Usually a monthly fee that keeps charging whether you open it or not. |
What is Detroit, MI actually like?
The city runs out from the river in spokes. Woodward, Gratiot, Grand River, Michigan, and Jefferson, with Downtown and Midtown at the base and neighborhoods strung along each avenue. Corktown, Eastern Market, Mexicantown, Indian Village, and Grandmont-Rosedale each have their own commercial strip.
The wider market keeps going past Eight Mile into Ferndale, Royal Oak, Dearborn, Hamtramck, Grosse Pointe, and out through Wayne and Oakland counties, which is where a large share of the region's small businesses actually operate.
Referrals move through neighbors and old customers more than through advertising, which puts a premium on being reachable and answering quickly.
How Detroit businesses are using AI right now
What Detroit owners already do with it: writing back to the overnight message before the shop opens, pulling a proposal out of a voice memo recorded in the driveway, restarting a conversation with the customer who asked a price and disappeared, and getting four weeks of posts out of one sitting.
Behind the counter it takes paper off your evenings. A long thread condensed before you walk into a meeting. Training notes for somebody starting Monday. A customer list straightened out. The routine documents every business keeps a copy of. Most of this runs on tools you already pay for.
Who teaches the Detroit seminar?
Mike Filsaime runs the Detroit evening. The 25 years before he taught any of this went into building companies, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar among them, so what he shows you was tested inside his own operations first.
Plain English is the whole method. If a word needs explaining it gets explained on the spot, nobody is expected to already know the vocabulary, and nothing gets included just to sound advanced.
The examples in Detroit get built in front of you, start to finish, with the room asking questions along the way. That is the part a recording cannot hand you.
What do people who have seen this say about it?
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.
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 is the seminar coming to Detroit?
We have not set the Detroit date yet. Pre-register and you will be the first to know when we do, before seats go on sale to everyone else.
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What do people in Detroit ask about the seminar?
Who is the Winning With AI seminar in Detroit for?
Owners and managers of any business in metro Detroit. Contractors, shops, restaurants, salons, gyms, repair crews, landscapers, cleaners, real estate agents, accountants, law offices, dental and medical offices, nonprofits, online sellers, agencies, and one-person operations all sit together, because the tools behave the same for all of them.
Do I need any technical background for the Detroit evening?
None. If you can write a plain email you are qualified. There is no coding, no software to install beforehand, and nothing to set up before you arrive.
What will I be able to do after the Detroit seminar?
You leave able to write customer replies and follow-up messages, build an estimate out of your own notes, batch a month of marketing, trim the scheduling back-and-forth, and get routine written admin off your plate. All of it is practiced in the room.
Is the Detroit seminar built around one industry?
No. The room is deliberately mixed and the examples come from a wide spread of local businesses rather than a single sector.
What does a seat at the Detroit seminar cost?
$49 early-bird while available. Attend, and if it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
When is the Winning With AI seminar coming to Detroit?
No Detroit date has been announced, so pre-registration is what is open now. People on that list hear the date and the venue before seats are offered more widely.
Will this work for a Detroit business with only one or two people?
Yes. Most of what gets demonstrated is sized for a very small operation, and none of it depends on having staff, an IT person, or a software budget.
What does the Detroit evening say to keep away from AI?
Pricing judgment, difficult customer conversations, and anything published under your name. The session is specific about where the tools stop being useful and start being a risk.
How do I pre-register for the Detroit seminar?
The registration button on this page adds you to the Detroit list, and that is the whole process.
Where does the Detroit evening sit in the wider program?
The Detroit room is one stop on the Winning With AI seminar, the touring live AI seminar Mike Filsaime teaches one evening at a time in cities across the United States. Same teacher, same demonstrations, same money-back guarantee in every city; the examples change to match the businesses in the room.
Which other Michigan cities have a seminar page?
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