Winning With AI Is Bound for Virginia
Three hours of driving covers three different Virginias, and the businesses in all of them lose the same afternoons to the same paperwork. Hampton Roads, Richmond, the Northern Virginia suburbs, the Shenandoah Valley, Roanoke, and the Southside towns.
What is the seminar in Virginia?
Winning With AI is one live evening in Virginia for owners of every type of business, from a two-truck plumbing outfit to a law office to a restaurant. It covers six uses of AI you can put to work the next morning: answering repeat 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 drafting routine written admin. No coding, no jargon, $49 early-bird while seats last.
- Virginia is several regions stitched together: Hampton Roads at the water, Richmond in the middle, the Washington suburbs at the top, and the Valley and Southside beyond the Blue Ridge.
- The I-64 tunnels under Hampton Roads and the I-95 squeeze through Fredericksburg decide how far a service business can realistically travel in a day.
- Northern Virginia holds close to a third of the state's people inside a few counties, while most of the map is towns under 25,000.
- I-81 runs the length of the Shenandoah Valley and carries some of the heaviest truck traffic in the East.
Which cities in Virginia have a seminar page?
- Richmond, VA · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
- Virginia Beach, VA · Coming soon. Pre-register to hear first.
What happens on the night in Virginia?
The evening is short on theory. Six tasks get picked up, and each one gets worked live on the screen at the front of the room: the questions customers ask every week, the follow-up that decides whether an inquiry turns into a job, the quote written out of a set of notes, a batch of marketing done in one sitting, the scheduling messages nobody wants to type, and the routine written admin, meaning summaries, checklists, instructions, and standard documents.
Mike Filsaime teaches it. Twenty-five years of building companies, including Groove, Kartra, WebinarJam, and EverWebinar, and none of that gets explained in developer language. He types the examples in front of you, in the same free browser tools you will have open, so you see the input and the output rather than a slide describing them.
Who fills the room is the point. A Chesapeake electrician, a Richmond salon, a Winchester orchard stand, an Arlington accountant, a Roanoke gym, a dental office out in Midlothian, a nonprofit in Petersburg, two people running a store out of a Bristol storefront, and several one-person operations. The work being handed to AI is the same in all of them. Nothing is sold at the end of the night, and there is no course or subscription afterward.
How business actually works in Virginia
Start at the water. Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Hampton run together into one metro of about 1.8 million people, split by the Elizabeth River and connected by tunnels that back up daily. Business there is spread thin across the bridges, and a crew stuck on the wrong side of the HRBT at four o'clock has lost the rest of the day.
Richmond sits an hour up I-64. Scott's Addition, Carytown, Shockoe Bottom, and the Fan hold small storefronts and offices at street level, and the counties around them, Henrico and Chesterfield, hold the trades and service businesses that drive in. Charlottesville anchors a smaller version of the same arrangement around its Downtown Mall.
North of Fredericksburg the map changes character. Arlington, Alexandria, Tysons, Fairfax, and the Loudoun corridor are dense, expensive, and full of small firms serving other firms. West of the Blue Ridge is the reverse: Winchester, Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Roanoke strung along I-81, with Danville, Martinsville, and Bristol at the southern edge, where one business often serves three counties because nobody else covers them.
How Virginia businesses use AI right now
Repeat questions get handled first, because they are the same every week. A Virginia Beach rental and charter outfit gets asked about parking, weather policy, and what to bring, dozens of times a season, and those answers get written once in the owner's own wording. A Harrisonburg tire shop turns a photo of the day's board into a week of posts. A Fredericksburg tutoring center writes its whole fall announcement batch on one Sunday afternoon.
Then the writing that never gets billed. A Roanoke roofer talks through a walkthrough on the drive back and gets an estimate in the layout the company always uses. A Richmond bookkeeper turns a client call into a summary with a task list attached. A crew leader on a Loudoun County landscaping job dictates three site notes and has three quotes back before dinner.
Follow-up and scheduling take the rest of the night, because that is where most of the money leaks out. The second message goes to the person who called in March, in April, without the owner having to remember. Appointments get set in two messages instead of six. And the room is told directly what stays off the tool: what to charge, the call with a customer who is upset, and anything going out in public under the business name, which a person reads first every time.
What do Virginia attendees take home?
- Follow-up that runs without you remembering. The second and third messages to somebody who inquired weeks ago are where most work gets lost. You write them once, set the timing, and they go out whether the week is calm or not.
- An estimate built from what you said in the truck. Talk through the job on the drive back down I-64. What comes back is the estimate in your own layout, with your line items and your wording. You read it, correct what is wrong, and send it.
- Your ten most-asked questions, written once. Parking, hours, whether you cover Chesapeake, what a deposit runs. You write those the way you would actually say them, one time, and stop retyping them for good.
- A stretch of marketing done in a single sitting. Instead of squeezing a post out between jobs, you produce the whole run at once: the emails, the posts, the seasonal announcement. Then you cut anything that does not sound like you.
- Scheduling that stops eating your inbox. Open times get offered, the choice gets confirmed, the reminder goes out the day before. Across a full week of appointments that is a large pile of typing that disappears.
- The decisions that stay on your side of the line. Pricing. The unhappy customer who wants a real conversation. Anything published under your business name. The evening names these out loud so you are not left guessing where the line sits.
What do people who have seen this say about it?
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.
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.
What do people in Virginia ask about the seminar?
Is the Virginia seminar only for certain kinds of businesses?
No. Owners of every type sit in the same room: 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. The six tasks being handed to AI look nearly identical whatever the business does.
When is Winning With AI coming to Richmond or Virginia Beach?
Virginia dates are not on the calendar yet. Pre-register and you hear first when a night is set near you, whether that is Hampton Roads, Richmond, Northern Virginia, Roanoke, or the Valley. Pre-registering also holds the $49 early-bird price while it is available.
I have never used AI for anything. Will the Virginia evening be over my head?
It is built for exactly that starting point. Nothing gets installed, nothing gets coded, and the tools run in a browser on their free versions. If you send email and write quotes today, you can do everything demonstrated.
What does a Virginia seat cost, and what if the night is not worth it?
$49 early-bird while seats last. Attend, and if it is not right for you, say so before you leave the room and the registration fee is refunded. That gets settled face to face, not through a form weeks later.
Does anything get sold at the end of the Virginia seminar?
No. Nothing is offered for sale afterward, there is no course, and there is no subscription. You leave with your notes and the six things you watched get built on the screen.
Where do the Virginia dates sit in the wider program?
Every Virginia room is one stop on the Winning With AI program, 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.