The door's open.

Friday,
October 2

5:30 in the evening · New Orleans

Once a month we get a room here and show each other what we made with AI. Most of us are not programmers.

Save me a seat

Free. Nothing to bring. We'll email you the address.

What this is

AI Friday is a meetup and a Slack. Once a month we take over a room, four or five people show something they made or something they finally figured out, and then everybody talks for an hour.

The people who come are lawyers, teachers, nurses, bookkeepers, people who run small businesses. They use a computer all day. They are not engineers.

You don't have to be technical. That is the entire point.

What people are building

• Intake, before the first call

  A family lawyer · Mid-City

  A new client fills out a form. She gets a plain summary and three questions to ask, before she picks up the phone.

• A week of science on Sunday night

  Seventh grade teacher · Algiers

  She pastes in the state standards. It gives back five days of labs and worksheets she can actually run on Monday.

• The schedule nobody had to redo

  Restaurant owner · Freret Street

  Everybody texts him when they can't work. It reads the texts and builds the week around them.

• Every deadline in one place

  Program manager · Central City

  Grant PDFs go in. Dates come out on a calendar she checks every Monday morning.

What you'll leave with

1. One thing you can use Monday

   Somebody always demos something small enough to copy down and try at your own desk the next morning.

2. Three people who do your job

   We do introductions at the start, out loud, by what you do. You will meet people in your line of work.

3. A clear sense of what AI can't do

   Worth as much as knowing what it's good at. It saves you three weeks on the wrong idea.

Everything else
happens in the kitchen

Between meetups it's a Slack. People post what they're stuck on before they post what worked, and somebody usually answers within the hour.

Nobody is made to feel stupid for asking a basic question, because most of us are asking basic questions.

Join the Slack

Around 300 people. Quiet most days.