Put Winning With AI on Your New York Calendar
Six hundred miles separate a bodega on Steinway Street from a hardware store in Jamestown, and both owners are still the ones typing replies at ten at night. This evening goes after that part of the week.
What is the seminar in New York?
Winning With AI is one live evening in New York, open to owners of every kind of business: a deli in Astoria, a paving crew in Rockland County, a hair salon in Utica, a two-person bookkeeping office in Batavia. The night covers where AI does real work for a small operation, answering customer questions, keeping leads from going cold, turning rough notes into quotes and proposals, building marketing in batches, cutting the back-and-forth on scheduling, and clearing routine written admin. Mike Filsaime teaches it in plain English, works every example live in the room, and nothing is sold at the door. Early-bird seats are $49 while available, and if you sit through the evening and it is not for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
- The Thruway is the spine of the state, and an owner in Rochester is closer to Toronto than to Times Square.
- City districts here are named by street and everyone knows which is which: Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, Steinway Street in Astoria.
- Upstate the business strips carry their own names, Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, Monroe Avenue in Rochester, Armory Square in Syracuse, Lark Street in Albany.
- The North Country and the Southern Tier are wide and thinly settled, so one service call up past Watertown can take the better part of a day.
Which cities in New York have a seminar page?
- Buffalo, NY · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
- New York City, NY · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
What happens on the night in New York?
One room, one screen, three hours, and the tools open where everybody can see what goes in and what comes back. Bring a laptop and something real off your own desk to try it on.
Mike Filsaime is teaching. Twenty-five years of building companies sits behind it, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar among them, and he keeps the language plain the way one owner explains something to another. Every example gets typed live in front of the room.
Part of the night is spent on where to stop. Pricing is a judgment call and it stays with you. The angry customer is yours to handle, and so is anything that goes out publicly with your name on it.
How business actually works in New York
Downstate is dense enough that a business can live off a handful of blocks. Corner storefronts in Jackson Heights, Bay Ridge, and Washington Heights serve people who walk there, while Nassau and Suffolk spread the same trades out along Sunrise Highway and Jericho Turnpike. Rents are high, foot traffic is constant, and the owner is usually the one closing up.
The Hudson Valley runs on the train line and the weekend. Beacon, Kingston, Hudson, and Cold Spring fill up Friday through Sunday and go quiet midweek, and plenty of shops there serve two different customer bases inside the same seven days. Further north the Capital Region, Albany, Troy, and Schenectady, keeps steadier hours and a state payroll calendar everybody plans around.
West of Syracuse the map opens out. Buffalo and Rochester have real neighborhood business strips, the Finger Lakes towns pack a year into the warm months, and the Southern Tier and North Country cover long distances with few people in them. All along that stretch the same complaint turns up: no shortage of work, nobody free for the writing it drags behind it.
How New York businesses use AI right now
A bakery on Arthur Avenue has the overnight messages drafted before the ovens are off. A fence crew in Suffolk County talks through a walkthrough on the drive back and gets a written estimate out of it. A moving company in Yonkers stops letting open quotes sit with no second message.
A Beacon gift shop writes a whole season of emails in one sitting. A Troy law office turns the instructions it repeats every week into one standard document. A Rochester gym cuts the scheduling thread down to a single exchange.
A Syracuse landscaper gets the flyer copy written that has been living on a clipboard since spring. A Watertown repair shop walks out of an hour-long crew meeting with a summary and a task list. What to charge, how to handle a caller who is upset, and anything reputational stay with the owner.
What do New York attendees take home?
- Open the morning with approvals, not typing. Everything that came in overnight is drafted and waiting in your own wording. You read it, change a line, send it. A counter in Bay Ridge and a shop off Elmwood Avenue both begin the day with nothing hanging over.
- A quote written from what you said in the truck. Talk the job through out loud, hand over the notes, get back a clean estimate on your own template. You set every number on it. The writing and the formatting are the part being handed off.
- The second message actually goes out. Most work is lost to silence, not to a competitor. The list of who is still waiting stays current, the check-in gets drafted, and it sounds like you wrote it. A Hudson Valley shop stops losing spring quotes by July.
- A season of marketing in one sitting. Nobody in Canandaigua has time to write a post a day in August. Produce the emails, captions, and offer copy for the whole stretch in one session, queue them, then go work the season.
- Every kind of business in the same room. Contractors, restaurants, salons, gyms, repair crews, landscapers, cleaners, real estate agents, accountants, law offices, dental and medical offices, nonprofits, online sellers, agencies, and people running the whole thing alone. None of these tools ask what you sell.
- The line you do not cross. Pricing, the conversation with somebody already upset, and anything your name rides on belong to a person. The evening puts that boundary somewhere you can see it.
What do people who have seen this say about it?
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.
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.
What do people in New York ask about the seminar?
When is Winning With AI coming to New York City or upstate?
New York dates are not set yet. Pre-register and you hear first when one lands, whether that is the city, Long Island, Albany, Rochester, or Buffalo, and the $49 early-bird rate is held for you.
Is the New York seminar aimed at certain industries only?
No. Owners of every type share the room. A pizzeria on Staten Island, a tree service in Dutchess County, a title office in Binghamton, and somebody shipping orders out of a spare room in Buffalo all lose the same hours to the same repeating chores.
I have never touched any of this. Can a New York owner keep up in one evening?
Yes. It is all typed in plain English, closer to writing a text than writing code. Mike works each example live and takes questions from the room, and there is nothing to set up beforehand.
What does a New York seat cost, and what happens if the night is a waste?
The early-bird seat is $49 while they last. Attend the whole evening, and if it was not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
Is there anything to buy after the New York event?
No. No course, no subscription, nothing waiting at the door. What gets taught that night is the whole of it.
Where do the New York dates sit in the wider program?
Every New York room is one stop on Winning With AI with Mike Filsaime, 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.