Friday morning at Sabre in Highlands, laptops open. We work on real documents, show what Claude and Gemini can now do for a property firm or a distributor, and build a working assistant live for one business in the room. You leave with an AI policy you can put on the wall on Monday.
Bring a price list, a tender you are sitting on, or last month’s management report. Those are what we open on screen.
Nothing is sold until the last few minutes. We say so at 08:02 and we keep to it.
A poll goes out the week before and the winner gets a full segment, built for it. They are outcomes rather than tool demonstrations: you should be able to say what changed over dinner that evening.
One page. What your staff are encouraged to do, what must never be pasted into these tools, who approves what, and who to ask. A second copy has blanks for your company name and your approved tools.
It is built on Zimbabwean law. The Cyber and Data Protection Act and S.I. 155 of 2024 require a data controller licence and a certified Data Protection Officer, with no exemption for small companies, and the registration window closed in March 2025. Most businesses here have not been told. Every legal point carries its section number so your lawyer can check it in minutes.
A volunteer, their own price list, and about twenty minutes. By the end it answers the questions their customers actually ask, in their own words and their own numbers.
Then we show plainly what it would take to put that on a WhatsApp number their customers can reach, and what it costs. Bring a laptop if you would like it to be yours.
An American software developer living in Harare, and the CTO of Executive AI Studio. He builds the systems Zimbabwean companies run on, including a WhatsApp assistant that takes a stockfeed distributor’s orders in place of the phone calls that used to fill every morning.
He teaches the way he works: plainly, and on the assumption that nobody in the room should feel behind.
Get in touch and we will tell you what is left and how to pay. Members of the Young Presidents Organization come through the chapter and pay nothing.