Date of event:
03.03.26
Time of event:
09:30 - 11:30
Cost: Free
This webinar supports early-stage founders, side-hustlers, freelancers, and aspiring entrepreneurs working with limited time and budget, often alone or in very small teams. It positions AI as a thought partner that helps one-person ventures punch above their weight, without promising shortcuts or overnight success.
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We frame AI as a leveller: it allows a solo founder in Wales to conduct market research that would normally require a team, draft professional communications without hiring a copywriter, and think through business models without expensive consultants. But we're equally clear about what AI cannot do: replace real-world validation, substitute for customer conversations, or make hard strategic decisions. |
We explore how AI helps with key entrepreneurial stages: clarifying fuzzy ideas, understanding potential customers, shaping value propositions, exploring market opportunities, and communicating with funders and partners. We demonstrate specific prompting techniques and workflows for pitch decks, competitor analysis, customer personas, and financial modelling basics, using Welsh entrepreneurial examples like sustainable tourism, craft producers, digital freelancers, and social enterprises.
Participation includes guided reflection on participants' own ideas, anonymous challenge sharing, and optional venture discussions. We acknowledge entrepreneurship's difficulty and uncertainty. AI doesn't change that, but it can remove drudgery and isolation, giving founders more time for work that truly matters.
Key Takeaways:
- Realistic understanding of how AI supports (not replaces) entrepreneurial effort
- Techniques for using AI to clarify concepts and understand customers
- AI assistance for research, competitor analysis, and communication on limited budgets
- Specific prompting techniques for pitch decks, personas, and financial modelling basics
- Clear framework for when to trust AI and when to seek human validation
- Decision checklist: when AI helps versus when direct human action is needed
- Confidence to engage with AI regardless of sector, stage, or technical background
- One-page template: "My AI-assisted entrepreneurial workflow"
Presenter bio
Richard Scott is the founder of Evolvity, an exited technology entrepreneur, and a board member at M-SParc. He built Priority1 at MCS, which was acquired by Trimble in 2014 and rebranded as Trimble FieldView. He now helps SMEs adopt human-centred AI with confidence. Richard positions AI as a collaborator that extends capability, with human judgement, validation and critical thinking setting the standard. He mentors leadership teams, develops practical skills, and runs focused pilots that deliver measurable outcomes and proportionate governance. He chairs COMIT2AI and has led programmes across computer vision, IoT and analytics in intelligent buildings.
This event is delivered by Business Wales on behalf of the Welsh Government
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