One Evening in Rhode Island: Winning With AI
Forty-eight miles top to bottom. Whatever you sell here, you compete on how fast you get back to people, and most of that speed disappears into typing.
What is the seminar in Rhode Island?
Winning With AI is one live evening in Rhode Island, open to owners of any business at all, from a Federal Hill restaurant to a Warwick auto shop to a Newport charter operator to a bookkeeper working alone out of a Pawtucket mill building. The night covers six things: replying to customer questions, keeping follow-up alive so leads do not go cold, building quotes and proposals out of rough notes, producing marketing a batch at a time, taking the back and forth out of scheduling, and clearing routine written admin. Mike Filsaime runs it in plain English, typing every example live where the room can read it. No code, no prior experience, and nothing sold once the room empties. Rhode Island dates are not on the calendar yet, so pre-register to be told first. Early-bird seats are $49 while available, and if the evening is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
- The state is 48 miles long and 37 miles wide, so a Providence business can serve Woonsocket in the morning and Westerly in the afternoon.
- Providence runs on distinct pockets. Federal Hill, the Jewelry District, Wayland Square, Olneyville, and the East Side each hold separate foot traffic inside one small city.
- The shoreline swings hard with the season. Newport, Narragansett, and Block Island fill from June and thin right out after Columbus Day.
- Route 95 splits the state end to end, and Route 6, Route 146, and the Newport bridges carry nearly everything that does not use it.
Which cities in Rhode Island have a seminar page?
- Newport, RI · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
- Providence, RI · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
What happens on the night in Rhode Island?
It runs three hours in one room, in person, with the tools open on a screen and a couple dozen owners in the chairs. Bring a laptop and one real piece of work: a proposal you have been avoiding, an email you never answered.
Mike Filsaime spent twenty-five years building companies, among them Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar. He explains it the way one owner explains something to another, and nothing gets summarized because each example is typed out live.
A good stretch of the night is about where to stop. What you charge is judgment and it stays with you. So does the customer who has already had enough, and so does anything public enough to change how you get talked about in a state this small.
How business actually works in Rhode Island
Providence does business a neighborhood at a time. Federal Hill lives on Atwells Avenue, the Jewelry District has filled with small offices, Olneyville and Valley turned old mill floors into workspace, and Wayland Square and Hope Street keep their regulars. Cross into Cranston, Johnston, or East Providence and the customer base changes again.
The Blackstone corridor north is a run of old mill towns. Pawtucket, Central Falls, Woonsocket, and Lincoln sit close enough that a crew can cover all four in a morning, and close enough to the Massachusetts line that a good share of the work comes from over it.
South and east, the calendar rules. Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth pack the summer and empty after. Narragansett, Wakefield, and Westerly follow the same cycle. Warwick and the airport corridor hold steady year round, which is why plenty of owners keep one foot there and one on the water.
How Rhode Island businesses use AI right now
Most owners point it at the reply queue first. Questions that arrived overnight by email, voicemail, and website form come back written up, and the morning becomes approving rather than composing.
Next it lands on anything you have written more than twice. A Cranston contractor speaks a job into a phone leaving the site and reads back an estimate. A Warwick office puts the intake instructions it retypes weekly into one document. A Newport charter operator cuts booking from a long thread to a single exchange.
After that it is the batch work. A Westerly shop writing a whole summer of emails in one evening. A Woonsocket crew getting the spring mailer out in February. An East Side nonprofit walking out of a board meeting with the summary written. Pricing, the customer who is already upset, and anything that will be read in public are kept off AI on purpose.
What do Rhode Island attendees take home?
- Mornings start with approvals instead of a blank screen. Everything that came in overnight is drafted and waiting. You correct what is off and send it. The hour that used to go to typing is the one you get back.
- Talk through a job, read back a written estimate. Describe the work out loud on the way to the truck and the wording is done by the time you sit down. You still set the number. Only the writing gets handed over.
- Follow-up keeps running when the week gets loud. Most work is lost to going quiet, not to being expensive. The list of people who have gone dark stays current, and the next note comes drafted in your wording.
- Marketing built ahead of the season, not during it. In a state that empties after Labor Day, the emails have to exist before the summer starts. Batching them in one evening is the only version that actually happens.
- Every kind of business is in the room. Restaurants, shops, 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.
- The line you do not cross. Price setting, the conversation with someone already upset, and anything that will be read publicly. AI stays out of those, and the evening explains exactly why.
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 Rhode Island ask about the seminar?
Has a Winning With AI date been set for Providence or Newport?
Not yet. Rhode Island dates are still being scheduled, so pre-register and you get told first, whether the room ends up in Providence, Warwick, Newport, or Pawtucket. The early-bird rate is held for you.
Is this really open to any Rhode Island business, or is it aimed at one sector?
Any business. A Federal Hill restaurant, a Warwick body shop, a Wakefield dentist, and someone packing orders in a Pawtucket mill unit all lose the same hours to the same repeating tasks.
I run a three-person operation in Cranston. Will this go over my head?
No. You are typing ordinary sentences, nearer to sending a text than to anything technical, and every example gets built live while people in the room interrupt with questions.
What does a Rhode Island seat cost, and what happens if the evening misses?
Early-bird seats are $49 while they last. Attend, and if it was not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded.
How far will I have to drive to get to a Rhode Island date?
Not far. Nothing here is much more than an hour from anywhere else, and rooms get booked where parking is simple and the run off 95 or 195 is straight.
Where do the Rhode Island dates sit in the wider program?
Every Rhode Island 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. 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.