Free executive session · FITCI, Frederick

AI starts with you.

Ninety minutes, no charge, on the morning of Tuesday 29 September — the session that moves you from experimenting with AI to operating with it. Stay for the afternoon and you put it to work on your own calendar, with your own accounts, before you go home.

9:00–10:30free, 90 minutes
11:00–4:00optional workshop
$750afternoon, lunch in
FITCIBallenger Center Dr
Register — the morning is free Afternoon is optional — decide in the form
The whole argument, in 1:47 Full page, with transcript →
One day, two halves

Come for the morning. Stay if it lands.

The ninety minutes stands on its own and costs nothing — come, take the argument, leave at half ten with no obligation. The afternoon is for the people who want it running against their own work by four o’clock the same day.

Free · no charge
9:00 – 10:30 AM

The executive session

Freeopen to anyone

Ninety minutes making the case, and showing the thing working. You leave understanding what an AI second brain actually does for someone in your seat — not what it does in a vendor demo.

  • Why this starts with you, not with IT or a pilot team
  • What “operating with AI” looks like day to day
  • Where it goes wrong, and what that costs
Coffee from 8:45. Nothing to bring, nothing to install.
Optional · paid
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

The hands-on workshop

$750per person · lunch included

Lunch at eleven, then four and a half hours with your laptop open, working on your own accounts and your own calendar. Not a demo environment and not a case study — your actual week.

  • Connect an assistant to your email, calendar and files
  • Write two skills from your own week, in your own words
  • Put one of them on a schedule before you leave
Bring a laptop. Complimentary lunch at 11:00, work starts 11:30.
Doors and coffeeCome early if you want to talk before it starts.
The executive sessionNinety minutes. Free, and complete on its own.
Morning endsLeave here with no obligation, or stay for the afternoon.
Lunch, includedFor workshop registrants. Tell us about dietary needs in the form.
Hands on keyboardsFour and a half hours against your own accounts, with breaks.
You leave with it runningSomething real, on a schedule, that was not running this morning.
We have seen this before

They all saw it coming.

Every one of these companies was watching the thing that ended them. They had the analysis. They had smart executives. What they did not have was a leadership team that had already changed the way it worked.

Kodak

Saw digital photography coming. Invented a good deal of it, in its own labs, and went on selling film.

Filed for bankruptcy, 2012

Blockbuster

Saw Netflix. Nine thousand stores, a stronger balance sheet, and most of a decade of warning to move on it.

Filed for bankruptcy, 2010

BlackBerry

Saw the iPhone. Owned the executive pocket, and judged that what it owned would be what kept it.

Left the handset business, 2016

These were smart companies with smart executives. They saw the technology — they just didn’t transform fast enough. That is exactly where we are with AI.

The difference

AI starts with you — not because you need to be technical, but because you need to experience the transformation yourself.

Reading a summary of what AI can do has never once changed how a company operates. Ninety minutes of seeing it done against a real inbox, real board prep, real numbers — that changes what you ask of everybody else. The afternoon is where it stops being a demonstration and starts being yours.

AI becomes your second brain and your digital labor for the business.

01
Connected to what you actually run on A secure assistant across your email, your CRM, your ERP and your financials — not a chat window in a separate tab.
02
Working alongside you all day A true executive assistant: managing the inbox, preparing you for board meetings and offsites, running the financial analysis.
03
Executive planning and follow-up The part that normally slips — what was decided, who owns it, what has not moved — carried without you chasing it.
04
Hours back, every week Not theoretical hours. The ones currently going to work that never needed your judgement in the first place.
The afternoon · $750

Six things, on your own accounts.

This is the hands-on half. Everyone in the room works on their own material, and nobody leaves with a slide deck — the day is graded on what is actually running at four o’clock.

01
Context Getting the assistant to know your business well enough that its first answer is usable.
02
Memory What it should remember between sessions, and what it must never keep.
03
Projects Standing work with its own instructions and files, instead of starting cold every time.
04
Automations The move from asking to scheduling — work that happens without you opening anything.
05
Analysis & planning Board prep, financial review and follow-up, done against your own numbers.
06
Security What you connect, what you never connect, and how to tell the difference before you click.
You won’t leave with a slide deck. You’ll leave with AI doing real work for you.

Two skills written from your own week and one of them on a schedule — running tomorrow morning whether or not you open your laptop. That is the bar for the afternoon, and it is the only thing it is measured on.

Who is running it

Nick Caruso

Twenty-five years putting AI into executive hands, starting with the US intelligence community in 2001. He runs the room himself — there is no bench.

The morning is the argument and the afternoon is the work. If you only have time for the argument, take the argument — it is free, and it is genuinely the half that changes what you do next.

Register

Take a seat on the 29th.

The morning is free and you can register for it alone. If you want the afternoon too, choose that below and you will go to checkout after this form.

Your details go to KnowledgeNet.ai and nowhere else — no list, no reseller. Trouble with this form? Email nick.caruso@knowledgenet.ai and you will be registered by hand.

Before you come

What to know

The morning really is free

No card, no catch, and no obligation to stay for the afternoon. Register for it on its own and leave at half ten if that is all you have time for.

Bring a laptop for the afternoon

It is hands on from the first hour after lunch, on your own accounts and your own calendar rather than a demo environment. The morning needs nothing.

The afternoon is capped

Small on purpose — everyone gets looked at individually. When it fills, registration closes and the checkout comes down.

FITCI — Frederick Innovative Technology Center

321 Ballenger Center Drive, Frederick, MD 21703. Free parking on site. Signage in the lobby on the day; if you get stuck, call the number in your confirmation email.

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