About us
AI for Small Business Owners — practical, no-fluff, built for operators
This group is for small business owners who want to actually USE AI, not just talk about it.
No theory. No hype. No "the future of work" lectures. Just owners and operators in a room (or on a call) showing each other what's working right now — the tools, the prompts, the workflows, the wins, the screw-ups.
We meet in-person in Brisbane and online so you can join from anywhere in Australia.
I run this group and share my own experience as a business owner in the NDIS space — including how I built my own software platform to run my business where i reduced my office admin staff from 14 down to 4 and saved myself 700k plus in staff wages, payg and more, and now offer it as a subscription with AI integrated. You'll get the real story: what worked, what broke, what it cost, and what I'd do differently.
What we do at meetups:
Live AI tool demos and build-alongs — watch real tools get set up in front of you
Hands-on workshops where you leave with something working in your business
Guest speakers — real operators sharing real case studies (not influencers selling courses)
Networking and problem-solving — bring a bottleneck, leave with a fix and three people who've already solved it
Who this is for:
Owners, founders, operators, and solo builders running real businesses who want to cut admin, win more work, and stop drowning in tasks AI could handle for them.
Who this isn't for:
Tyre-kickers, theorists, or anyone trying to sell us their course.
Show up, share what's working, take what you need, and build a better business.
— Gus
Founder, Ask Yr Grandpa (www.askyrgrandpa.com)
Upcoming events
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I saved 700k in staff wages by building my own platform using AI
Office, 67 Robinson Road Virginia, Brisbane, AUI'm Gus Gale. I run an NDIS business in Brisbane called Delta Community Support (www.deltacommunity.com.au) I have over 100 staff in this business alone. Two years ago I was drowning — $15K/month in software subscriptions that didn't fit, and a payroll bill stacked with admin staff doing work that should've been automated.
So I built my own platform. From scratch. Using Claude Code, Codex, and AI tools anyone can buy today. I'm not a developer. I've never written production code in my life.
It's called Titus CRM (www.titus-crm.com) — but it's more than a CRM. In one place I built my own Rostering, HR, Recruitment, and Invoicing platform. Every system my business runs on, under one roof, built by me with AI.- $700,000/year in office staff wages — gone
- $15,000/month in third-party SaaS subscriptions — cancelled
- Built in months, not years
- Zero traditional dev hires
The unlock that killed the admin layer: I automated the reporting my Team Leaders were doing manually every week — incident reports, shift notes, compliance checks, client progress, roster variances. Once that reporting ran itself, I didn't need a whole admin team to chase, collate, and format it. The Team Leaders kept doing the work. The platform did the paperwork. That single change is where most of the $700K in wages disappeared.
Why this applies to ANY business
Every business — trades, retail, hospitality, agencies, clinics, signage, construction — has a layer of staff manually moving information between systems. Reports. Timesheets. Quotes. Invoices. Onboarding paperwork. That's the admin layer. It's expensive, it's slow, and AI can collapse it.
On Monday I'll show you the playbook: how to identify which of YOUR systems and reporting can be automated, and how to actually build it with AI without writing code.
Agenda (90 mins)- 9:30 — Coffee + intros
- 9:45 — The $700K problem (and why every operator has a version of it)
- 10:00 — How automating Team Leader reporting deleted my admin layer
- 10:15 — Live demo: building a feature in Titus with Claude Code in real time
- 10:35 — The stack: Claude, Codex, Supabase, Vercel — what does what
- 10:45 — Q&A + open mic
- 11:00 — Wrap
Cost: Free. RSVP required — limited seats. Book a 1:1: https://askyrgrandpa.com/book-a-meeting
— Gus1 attendee
