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Trades & contractors
Organize job notes, draft customer updates, compare proposals, and prepare better questions for a website or CRM developer.
Columbus · Laurel · Billings
A little guidance.
A whole new way
to get things done.
Learn to use AI with confidence—on your own work, at your own pace, with someone who understands small business.
Practical AI. Personal guidance. Local roots.
Start where you are
You don’t need to
know the right words.
Maybe you’ve never opened a chatbot. Maybe you use one every day, but the answers still feel generic. Or maybe you’re wondering how AI could fit into the business you’ve spent years building.
We start with your questions, your experience, and something real you want to accomplish. You work at the keyboard. Seth guides you through it. The goal is to leave able to keep going on your own.
No technical background required. No pressure to buy a stack of software. No promise that one session will automate an entire business.
From first steps to deeper thinking
There’s more than one
way to learn AI.
Choose the description that feels most like you. Your session is tailored to your starting point; these are possible topics, not a checklist we rush through in two hours.
Get comfortable. Get something useful done.
Understand what a chatbot does, choose a starting tool, and learn a conversation style that works for you.
- Set up an account and find the main features.
- Explain your business, preferences, and goals.
- Ask follow-up questions instead of starting over.
- Draft emails, organize notes, or understand a document.
- Recognize uncertain answers and protect private information.
An example we could work through
“I need to reply to this customer, but I don’t know how to word it.”
Explain what happened, draft a response, adjust its tone, and check the details together. Leave with a process you can use for the next message.
Plan a beginner session →Move beyond generic answers.
Bring a task where AI keeps missing the point. Learn to improve the inputs, organize the work, and evaluate the result.
- Create a reusable business context brief.
- Build prompt templates for recurring work.
- Explore projects, file analysis, and source-based research where your tool supports them.
- Compare options with explicit assumptions.
- Break a complicated job into reviewable steps.
An example we could work through
“I use ChatGPT, but I keep explaining the same things.”
Organize relevant background, create a reusable starting brief, and test it against a real task. Learn what persists in your chosen tool and what you still need to supply.
Plan a workflow session →Understand the possibilities—and the requirements.
Use the session to scope a focused workflow or make sense of a technical proposal. Teaching and planning are available; production implementation requires a separate scope.
- Map tasks across email, a CRM, documents, and spreadsheets.
- Understand APIs, integrations, automation, and agents in plain language.
- Identify permissions, costs, failure points, and human review.
- Write requirements and acceptance checks for a contractor.
- Choose one realistic experiment before committing to a larger build.
An example we could work through
“Can my website connect to my CRM?”
Map what information should move, in which direction, and when. Prepare questions about access, data ownership, recurring costs, testing, and support.
Plan an advanced session →Make it relevant
Your business.
Your everyday questions.
Illustrative learning examples. We choose two priorities that fit your session, using sample or redacted information when appropriate.
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Restaurants & retail
Explore a sales spreadsheet, understand expense categories, draft promotions, or organize questions about equipment estimates. Verify calculations against original records.
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Property & real estate
Draft communications, organize maintenance information, summarize documents, and model scenarios with clearly stated assumptions.
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Offices & professionals
Turn meeting notes into next steps, improve repeatable writing tasks, organize research, and outline internal processes.
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Marketing & creative work
Develop content ideas, refine your voice, plan a campaign, and learn how to critique a draft before sharing it.
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Everyday life
Make sense of a confusing explanation, plan a project, compare options, or learn a subject through patient follow-up questions.
A clear place to begin
Two hours. Your priorities.
Tools you can keep using.
One introductory format, adapted to your experience. We can spend the time on first steps, improving an existing process, or planning a more advanced workflow.
- One owner or professional, plus one colleague from the same business.
- A reusable business context brief.
- Hands-on practice with two selected tasks.
- A short guide with your prompts and next steps.
- One scheduled 15-minute follow-up within two weeks.
Bring a laptop if possible. Your accounts remain yours. Any paid AI subscription is separate; start with tools that fit your needs and budget.
Introductory offer
Personal AI working session
$200 / 2 hours
For beginners and existing AI users.
Laurel office by appointment · Columbus appointments by arrangement · Serving the Billings area
Plan your session ↗Additional coaching: $100/hour, booked separately. Team workshops and custom builds require a separate quote.
The session, step by step
Learn by doing.
Leave with direction.
A flexible agenda, with room for questions. Your priorities shape how we spend the time.
20 MIN
Start with your world
Understand your work, your experience, and the two things you most want help with.
25 MIN
Give AI the right context
Set up or review your tool, explain your business, and build a reusable brief.
50 MIN
Work on real tasks
You ask, revise, and evaluate. Seth helps you see why a response works—or needs another pass.
15 MIN
Build good judgment
Practice checking sources, assumptions, calculations, and what information is appropriate to share.
10 MIN
Choose your next steps
Save useful prompts and choose a few things to practice during the coming week.
Meet your guide
A local business
perspective.
Seth · Columbus, Montana
Seth works in property management at Parks Property Management in Columbus and uses AI to explore practical business problems, improve communication, and think through new ideas.
This coaching grew out of everyday conversations with business owners and professionals who wanted help understanding what AI could do for them.
His reason for doing it is simple: he wants the people and small businesses around him to succeed. Sessions are patient, practical, and built around helping you become more independent.
Stillwater AI is a new coaching brand. Training focuses on practical use and planning; custom software engineering and managed technical support are separate services, subject to scope and availability.
Good questions, honest answers
Before you book.
I’m overwhelmed. Is this really for me?
Yes. You can arrive with no AI experience. We start with familiar work and move at your pace. You do not need to learn technical terminology to benefit.
I already use ChatGPT or Claude. Will I learn anything?
Bring a task where you are stuck or spending too much effort. We can focus on context, reusable instructions, document analysis, evaluating answers, or planning a workflow. The intake helps identify whether the session fits your goals; deep engineering work is scoped separately.
What should I bring?
A laptop if available, access to your own chatbot account, and two tasks you want help with. Bring sample or redacted documents. Do not bring passwords to hand over, bank credentials, Social Security numbers, or confidential customer records for uploading.
Do I need a paid AI subscription?
Not necessarily. We begin with your goals and existing tools. Some features require a paid plan, and any subscription is purchased by you separately. No particular platform is required.
Will you build my website or connect my CRM?
The two-hour session can help define requirements, evaluate options, or plan a small experiment. It does not include a production website, live CRM integration, ongoing monitoring, or guaranteed automation. Any implementation needs its own written scope and price.
Can AI handle my accounting, legal questions, or technical approvals?
It can help organize information and prepare questions. It can also be wrong. We teach verification and when to involve your accountant, attorney, licensed installer, inspector, or other qualified professional.
Where do we meet?
Laurel office appointments are planned, with Columbus appointments by arrangement. The confirmed location and directions will be included with your booking. An office street address has not yet been published.
How do booking and payment work?
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Will I have ongoing access to help?
Your session includes one scheduled 15-minute follow-up within two weeks. Additional coaching is $100/hour by appointment. Unlimited messaging, emergency support, and ongoing IT support are not included.
Your next step
Let’s make AI
useful for you.
Tell us where you’re starting and what you want to accomplish. Beginner questions are welcome. So are bigger ideas.
Questions or ready to get started?
Call (406) 780-7578 or send a text. Contact Seth to discuss a session and arrange a time.
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