Montpelier, Here Is One Evening of Winning With AI

Most Montpelier customers are a ten minute drive away, and the written work still stacks up. The estimate you promised on Monday is a page of notes on the dash. Three messages came in while you were on a job and nobody has answered them. Next month's marketing is not written yet. One live evening in Montpelier is spent on that exact pile of work. Pre-register and the Montpelier date reaches your inbox first.

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What is the seminar in Montpelier, VT?

• One evening in Montpelier, in person, and nothing gets recorded.
• Open to small businesses of every kind across central Vermont.
• $49 early bird while seats last, refunded if it does not land for you.
• Normal words the whole way, and nothing to install beforehand.
• No program afterward, no monthly fee, and nothing pitched.
• No Montpelier date yet. Pre-register and you hear it first.

What does the evening in Montpelier actually cover?

No slideshow. A screen and a keyboard in a Montpelier room, with each step typed out at a speed you can copy.

What goes up there is the backlog you already have. A question that landed at nine on a Sunday. A caller from Waterbury who never got a call back. Numbers written at a job in Northfield that still have to become an estimate. A month of emails and posts, not started. The same instructions retyped for a seasonal hire.

Then the evening turns around. What you charge stays with you. The reply to somebody unhappy stays with you. Anything published in the business name stays with you. The tool hands back a draft and that is where it ends.

Is AI worth it for a small business in Montpelier, Vermont?

Seats are $49 early bird while they last, and if it does not suit you, say so before leaving the room and the registration fee is refunded.

Work is not scarce here. Daylight is, and so is road. A job in Middlesex and a job in Barre can be fifteen minutes apart in July and a real decision in February, and half the customers are up a road that ends in gravel.

So the writing waits for the woodstove hour. This evening lifts the typing off that time and leaves every judgment call untouched. You leave with the steps written down and nothing owed afterward.

Why is this AI seminar built for Montpelier businesses?

The room does not get divided by trade. A storefront on Main Street, a crew that drives out to Waitsfield, a two person office off State Street, one evening for all of it.

A carpenter working Berlin. A cafe on State Street. A barber in Barre. A lawn and plow crew covering Middlesex and Northfield. A bookkeeper above a shop on Main Street. A gym on the Barre Montpelier Road. A cleaning company running Waterbury and Stowe. A dental office off Barre Street. A nonprofit downtown. An agent listing in Calais. A repair shop out on Route 2. Somebody shipping orders from a barn in Plainfield. The written work is the same in every one.

That is the filter for the agenda. If something only serves one kind of business, it stays off the screen.

What do Montpelier attendees walk away with?

• Replies before somebody calls the next name. In a small valley the second call goes out fast. Prepared written answers get back to people the same day instead of midweek.
• Follow up that keeps running. The customer who never heard back is usually still waiting. You build the follow up once in the room and it continues without you.
• Dash notes into a written estimate. The numbers from a job in Northfield turn into an estimate the customer can read, worded the way you would say it out loud.
• Weeks of marketing in one morning. Emails and posts that never quite happen get drafted in a single sitting, then cut back until they sound local and unforced.
• One message to set a time. Booking a single job should not take a two day thread. The short version gets rebuilt on screen in front of you.
• The paperwork you keep rewriting. Checklists, summaries, instructions, the seasonal form. Written properly one time and reused from then on.
• What never gets handed to the tool. Pricing, unhappy customers, and anything public under your name. The evening draws that line early and explains it.

Who is the Montpelier seminar for?

How does a live seminar compare with free videos and an online course?

What is Montpelier, VT actually like?

Montpelier is the smallest state capital in the country, sitting where the North Branch meets the Winooski, with I-89 just outside town and Route 2 running through the middle of it.

Scale changes how business works here. Reputation travels a small valley fast, so a slow reply is remembered and a quick one gets passed along at the store. Winter reroutes the calendar, mud season closes back roads outright, and foliage weeks bring people who all want an answer today. Work you can finish in writing from a phone parked at a trailhead pull off is worth real hours.

That sets the shape of the evening. Nothing shown needs a purchase past what you already carry.

How Montpelier businesses are using AI right now

This is not a preview of anything. Businesses around central Vermont already run pieces of it, most without a single technical person involved.

A firewood and excavation outfit stopped writing estimates at the kitchen table, because the numbers get spoken into a phone at the end of the driveway and come back typed the way he would have said it. A bakery on Main Street that posted whenever there was a spare minute now writes a month of emails and captions in one morning. A two person tax office wrote its client instructions properly once and quit rebuilding them every January. A plow operator keeps written answers ready for the same five questions people ask before the first storm.

The change stays small on purpose. Typing left the evening, and no decision changed hands. Pricing, the difficult conversation, and anything public are still yours.

Who teaches the Montpelier seminar?

Mike Filsaime teaches the Montpelier evening, and he arrived at it after 25 years of building companies, Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar among them.

The instruction is plain English by design. Initials get spelled out, nothing is assumed about what you have used before, and a step that can be performed gets performed rather than described.

For central Vermont that means the examples come from a backlog somebody here would recognize, worked live on the screen instead of shown already finished.

What do people who have seen this say about it?

When is the seminar coming to Montpelier?

We have not set the Montpelier 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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Where does the Montpelier evening sit in the wider program?

The Montpelier 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. Same teacher, same demonstrations, same money-back guarantee in every city; the examples change to match the businesses in the room.

Which other Vermont cities have a seminar page?

• Burlington, VT

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