🧜‍♀️ The AI Collective Hampton Roads

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Everyone thinks Claude Code is for developers. It's not.
Claude Code and Cowork are the closest things we have to a true AI coworker — one that connects to your email, your calendar, your files, and your apps, then actually does the work instead of just answering questions about it.
This session shows you 10 practical things Claude can do for you right now — no coding required. Every example follows the same pattern: you provide the idea and make the final call, the AI handles the grunt work, and you review before anything goes live. Human in the loop, every step.
This is our most accessible event yet. If you've been curious about AI but felt like everything was aimed at developers — this one's for you.

🔍 What We'll Cover

10 Live Demonstrations (or as many as we can get done in the hour)

1. Daily Morning Briefing — Calendar + email + priorities, generated before you wake up
2. Meeting Prep Researcher — Topic research + one-page briefing, ready before you walk in
3. Email Triage Assistant — Scan inbox, flag priorities, draft replies for your review
4. File Organizer — 500 messy files → sorted, renamed, organized in minutes
5. Data Cleanup Specialist — Messy spreadsheets → clean, standardized, formatted
6. Competitive Research Analyst — 5 competitors → structured landscape document
7. Weekly Status Report Generator — Compile your week's work into a summary
8. Travel Planner — Budget + dates + preferences → complete itinerary
9. Subscription Audit — Find and flag every unused recurring charge
10. Presentation Generator — Notes or a topic → branded slide deck

The Human-in-the-Loop Pattern Every demo follows the same principle: you bring the starting ideas and judgment. The AI does the heavy lifting. You review and approve before anything is final. The AI is the intern — you're the boss.

Setup for Non-Technical People We'll show you how to get Cowork running on your machine — no terminal, no code, no developer tools. Just the Claude Desktop app and your existing accounts.

🎙️ Your Speaker
Andrew Stafford Co-Lead of The AI Collective Hampton Roads 25+ years across technology, cloud architecture, and AI — including work with Amazon, NASA, healthcare platforms, and enterprise systems. Author of AI for Business. Currently building at the intersection of AI tooling, agentic workflows, and practical business automation.

Build and ship a real AI agent in one night

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You've seen what Claude can do. You've built automations. Maybe you even set up that morning briefing from our last event. But here's the honest question: how many of those automations are you still running manually every time?
Most people try an AI workflow once, love it, and then forget to run it again by Wednesday. The problem isn't capability — it's consistency. You keep forgetting to ask.
This session fixes that. We're taking the automations you already know how to build and putting them on a schedule that runs without you. Daily. Weekly. Monthly. While you sleep, while you commute, while you argue with your alarm clock.
This is a live, demo-driven walkthrough. We're not talking theory. We're opening Claude Desktop, scheduling real tasks, and watching them work — all in Cowork mode, no coding required.

What we'll cover:

🔄 Two Levels of Automation

Level 1: Cowork Scheduled Tasks — runs on your desktop, no code, click-and-schedule simplicity. For everyone.

Level 2: Claude Code Routines — runs on Anthropic's cloud, laptop can be closed, API and GitHub triggers. For developers. (Launched April 14 — brand new.)

⚡ 10 Automations We'll Build Live:

1. The Morning Briefing — calendar + email + priorities, ready before you wake up
2. Inbox Zero at Dawn — email triage and draft replies waiting for your review
3. The Self-Cleaning Downloads Folder — file organization at midnight, every night
4. Meeting Prep That Beats You to Work — research brief 2 hours before your first meeting
5. The Friday Report That Writes Itself — weekly summary compiled automatically
6. Weekly Competitive Intelligence — competitor monitoring every Monday
7. The Subscription Watchdog — monthly scan of recurring charges you forgot about
8. Expense Reports on Autopilot — receipts processed every Friday
9. Content Calendar Batch — week's social media drafts ready Monday morning
10. The Weekend Cleanup Crew — digital housekeeping while you enjoy Saturday

🔗 Chaining: When Automations Talk to Each Other The real power: one automation triggers the next. Morning briefing flags an urgent email → draft reply auto-generates → you review on your phone over coffee → approved reply sends before you reach your desk. Three automations, zero manual triggers.

Who this is for: Anyone with a Claude Pro or Max subscription who's used Cowork at least once. If you attended our April 9 (Claude Code) or April 23 (AI Coworker) events, this is the natural next step. If you didn't, you're still welcome — the setup takes 60 seconds and we'll walk through it live.

Who this is NOT for: If you haven't installed Claude Desktop yet, start with our free setup guide (linked on the event page) before the event. We're spending our time scheduling and automating, not installing.

What you'll leave with: ✅ At least 2-3 scheduled automations running on your machine ✅ A free homework doc with all 10 prompts ready to copy ✅ The framework for building and chaining your own automations ✅ Access to the AI Automation Playbook ($29) for advanced patterns and developer-level Routines

Prerequisites: — Claude Desktop installed (claude.com/download) — Claude Pro ($20/month) or Max ($100+/month) subscription — Cowork mode accessible (click "Cowork" at the top of the app) — Gmail and Google Calendar connectors set up (for the email-based demos)

🎙️ Your Speaker Andrew Stafford Co-Lead of The AI Collective Hampton Roads. 25+ years across technology, cloud architecture, and AI — including work with Amazon, NASA, healthcare platforms, and enterprise systems. Author of AI for Business. Currently building at the intersection of AI tooling, agentic workflows, and practical business automation.

Can't sleep? Up late tinkering on a project? Or can't make the usual meetups till the kids are in bed?

Late Night Builders is a monthly hangout for builders, tinkerers, and the generally curious. Developers, designers, AI enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, hobbyists — if you make things or want to start, you'll fit in.

Bring something you're working on, pick someone's brain, or just show up for cheap wings and good conversation. No agenda, no presentations, no networking cringe.

Anyone is welcome at any experience level. Bring your laptop, bring a friend, or just bring yourself.

FAQs
Is there free parking? Yes. There is plenty of free parking available at the location.

Is this event free? Yes. Space is limited, so please RSVP and cancel if your plans change.

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