AI Solopreneur Program, by Stone & Chalk
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Build a team of AI agents that chase your leads, run your marketing, and reconcile your books – while you're busy doing the actual work that gets you paid.
Want to grow your business without giving up your evenings?
Do you want a new enquiry on your website to get a considered, personal reply within the hour, while you're mid-delivery with a client?
Would you like your customer list to stay warm, your follow-ups to go out, and your content to keep publishing, without you drafting a single word on a Sunday night?
Ready to glance at your month-end numbers on one live dashboard instead of spending a day reconciling Xero?
Your expertise built your business. It’s now what’s stopping your growth
You might have clients, a proven offer, or even a reputation that gets you referred. What you don't have is a Tuesday afternoon that isn't spoken for.
The proposal you owe a warm lead sits half-finished because delivery came first. The follow-up you meant to send three weeks ago never went.
The LinkedIn presence that used to bring you work has gone dry, because the person who writes the posts is also the person who does the delivery, the invoicing, the onboarding, and the chasing.
You've used ChatGPT. Maybe daily. But a chat window isn't a system. It still needs you to open it, prompt it, check it, and paste the result somewhere.
Which means all it did was save you minutes on a task that shouldn't have needed you at all.
Here's what happens when that changes
Salesforce found 91% of small businesses using AI report it boosted their revenue, and business leaders adopt AI that are nearly twice as likely to report year-over-year growth.
Business.com reports that small business owners who use AI for administrative tasks save an average of 7.2 hours per week.
The owners saving those hours (and more) didn't buy more tools. They didn't hire a big team. They didn't learn to code.
They built AI agents around the business they already have. And that’s not a skill they were born with. Someone showed them how to do it.
So what is an ‘AI agent’?
An AI agent is a digital assistant you train on how your business works. It reads your documents, knows your services, your pricing, your process. It can follow the steps you’d follow, the way you’d follow them.
Then it does the job. Start to finish.
An agent takes the slow, manual jobs that eat your week, like answering enquiries, chasing follow-ups, assembling reports, reconciling payments, and hands you finished work.
Think of it like this:
ChatGPT is a bright temp on their first day. Smart, fast, willing – but they know nothing about your business, so you have to explain everything, every time, and check everything they touch.
An agent is the assistant who's been with you for years. You've shown them how you do things once, and now the work just... happens.
And to do your best work, you need to build a team of them. Each trained on your business, each owning a job you do by hand.
Build a team of AI agents for your business in six weeks
The AI Solopreneur program is a six-week program running 21 July to 27 August. It’s held in-person across Australia in the CBD of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
This program is for business owners, freelancers and operators who want to spend less time chasing tasks and more time building a business that runs on autopilot.
Each week, you sit down in a room, open your laptop, and build a working AI agent for your own business with expert guidance step by step.
All without the need to know how to code. With the right support, if you can brief a contractor, you can build a team of agents for your business.
Who’s behind the program
The program is run by Stone & Chalk, Australia's largest innovation community, where companies have raised more than $4 billion and created more than 100,000 jobs across every type of industry.
The community that has spent over a decade helping operators build businesses – and every lesson about what works (and what fails) is baked into how this program runs.
Your sessions are guided by experts from MLAI, one of Australia's largest AI communities, and a dedicated Stone & Chalk Cohort Champion supports your group throughout – meaning someone's job is to make sure you don't fall behind.
Backing it all, are industry leaders from some of the world's biggest technology companies including Anthropic (the makers of Claude AI) and Stripe, plus prominent Australian AI organisations like Build Club and Gradient Institute.
That experience and accountability gives you far more than any YouTube playlist or online course ever could.
The AI and tech experts guiding this program
Here's some of what you'll discover inside the program:
How a web lead conversion agent can answer an enquiry within the hour while you're with a client - so warm leads stop going cold on your watch.
Why "I already use ChatGPT" is the most expensive sentence in small business right now (hint: a chat window helps you do tasks - agents remove them)...
The plain-English method non-technical operators use to build working AI agents - no code, no developers, no six-month IT project...
How to build a personal "Board of AI Advisors" that flags what needs your attention each week so nothing falls through the cracks...
What Australia's independent AI research body says you should manage, avoid, and never automate (skip this and you risk putting something unsafe in front of clients)...
How to keep your entire customer pipeline warm without drafting a single follow-up yourself...
Why your clients are already asking AI tools who to hire, and how AI search optimisation determines whether your name comes up or your competitor's does...
The agent that reconciles your payments automatically, so month-end stops ruining your weekends...
How to pull all your important business metrics into a single live dashboard you can get answers from instantly...
The content system that keeps you visible in search AND in AI-generated answers, without you posting on social all day...
A ready-made AI agent that pulls together everything you need for important partner and stakeholder updates...
The real reason six weeks of building beats six months of “researching AI tools” (you leave with agents running in your business, not a comparison spreadsheet)...
What you'll build each afternoon over six weeks (21 July – 27 August)
Week 1: Foundations and coding agents
Build the foundations for everything that follows.
You get grounded in how AI agents work: the foundations, your data, your setup. Then you go straight into a hands-on lab building your first agent.
Your experts: MLAI + Anthropic
Sydney: Tuesday 21 July | Melbourne: Wednesday 22 July | Adelaide: Thursday 23 July
Week 2: Board of Advisors and responsible AI
Imagine having a board of advisors available 24 hours a day.
You build a personal board of AI advisors with coaches, a sounding board, and a project manager agent that keeps your priorities moving between sessions.
Then Gradient Institute, Australia's independent responsible-AI research body, walks you through what to manage, what to avoid, and what to never automate – so the systems you build are ones you can safely put in front of clients.
Your experts: MLAI + Gradient Institute
Sydney: Tuesday 28 July | Melbourne: Wednesday 29 July | Adelaide: Thursday 30 July
Week 3: Sales and customer support
The week that pays for the program. You'll build a web lead conversion agent that responds to enquiries while you're mid-delivery, and a sales agent that keeps your pipeline warm – so the leads you're too busy to chase stop going cold.
Your expert: MLAI
Sydney: Tuesday 4 August | Melbourne: Wednesday 5 August | Adelaide: Thursday 6 August
Week 4: Marketing and visibility
Your clients are already asking AI tools who they should hire. This week you build a marketing agent that optimises how you show up in both search engines (SEO) and AI-generated answers (GEO). Plus, you get an AI-driven content generation system so being findable stops depending on you opening LinkedIn every day.
Your expert: MLAI
Dates
Sydney: Tuesday 11 August | Melbourne: Wednesday 12 August | Adelaide: Thursday 13 August
Week 5: Operations and Finance
You build an agent that automates payments reconciliation, then pulls your scattered numbers into one live dashboard drawing from multiple data sources.
The month-end admin that eats your evenings becomes something you glance at, not something you have to force yourself to do.
Your expert: MLAI
Dates
Sydney: Tuesday 18 August | Melbourne: Wednesday 19 August | Adelaide: Thursday 20 August
Week 6: Lift-off: Going global with AI
You finish by building forward: using AI agents for e-commerce so you can expand and sell internationally.
The program finishes with a showcase to present what you’ve built to special guests (who could be your next partner or customer).
Your expert: MLAI
Dates
Sydney: Tuesday 25 August | Melbourne: Wednesday 26 August | Adelaide: Thursday 27 August
This works even if you “can't do tech.”
Transparency time: Most of the people in this cohort can't code. They don't want to code. They never will code.
Every agent in this program is built through natural language. You describe what you want in plain English, and your experts guide you step by step, in the room, next to you.
When you join, you will be prompted to complete a short 2 minute assessment about your business and your skills. This gives our experts the information they need to give you specific advice that works for your company.
So even if you’ve only dabbled in AI, you build the confidence, skills, and agents to save you time and keep your business running – even when you step away from the desk.
Join today for $1,399 and you receive these bonuses
Bonus #1: $500 in Anthropic (Claude) Credits
You receive $500 in Anthropic credits so the agents you build in the program run on serious infrastructure from day one – without the anxiety that many people first feel stepping into AI systems.
Bonus #2: Hub residency – Up to 3 days a week for 6 weeks ($1,080 value)
You get workspace at your Stone & Chalk hub for up to three days a week for the full six weeks.
At $60 a day, that's $1,080 of workspace on its own – and it’s also the difference between building alone, and building alongside people solving the same problems you are.
Bonus #3: Access to our national mentor pool
You'll have access to a national pool of mentors with real-life experience using AI in sales, marketing, operations, customer support and go-to-market – some of them AI solo founders themselves.
Bonus #4: Weekly cohort check-ins + dedicated Slack channel
Alongside each week's workshop and lab, you get a one-hour cohort check-in to share progress, work through what's stuck, and keep you moving forward.
Plus, you get a dedicated Slack channel, so you always have access to a community of support, no matter the hour.
Bonus #5: A Stone & Chalk certificate of accomplishment
Your clients can't tell who's actually built systems and who's just watched a webinar. So put it on your LinkedIn. Put it in your proposals. Mention it in the room when a client asks, “So, what's your AI capability?”
While your competitors are exploring AI, you'll have credentials, and running agents, that say you're already there.
The gap is opening right now
Small business use of generative AI jumped from 40% to 58% in a single year – and small firms are now adopting faster than large enterprises, giving them a huge advantage against the established giants.
Meanwhile, 80% of small businesses using AI believe it's already common among their peers, but only a third of non-users realise it.
What that means for you is: your competitors aren't announcing their systems. They're just responding to leads faster than you. Showing up in AI search results where you don't. Finishing their reconciliation before lunch.
Every month you wait, the gap gets a little wider.
Frequently Asked Questions
I already use ChatGPT. What does this add?
A chat window helps you do tasks, but an agent removes the tasks entirely.
Over six weeks you'll build agents connected to your actual pipeline, marketing, Xero and operations – the work that has to happen to make your business run.
That is the difference between a good assistant and a good system.
I can't code.
Every agent is built through natural language – you describe what you want in plain English, and the delivery leads guide you step by step.
My time is billable. Six weeks is a real cost.
It's a few hours a week for six weeks.
- 2x weeks of five hours (Week 1 and 6)
- 4x weeks of three hours ( Weeks 2, 3, 4 and 5).
That's 22 hours (less than a full day) to build an entire AI agent system for your business.
Owners using AI on admin alone recover an average of 7.2 hours every week after that. Run the maths on your own hourly rate – the program pays for itself in reclaimed weeks, not months.
If you want to go deeper, you also get exclusive access to our hubs, events and community for three full days every week.
I'm technical – will this be too basic?
On registration you will complete a quick 2 minutes assessment. If you're already building with APIs and agents, you'll go further. If you're earlier on, you'll get more structure. Either way, you leave with agents running in your business.
Picture your business six weeks from now
You took Friday off. An actual break – phone in the other room, no laptop in sight.
At 10:00am, a prospective customer lands on your website and sends an enquiry. By 10:15, they have a reply. A considered answer, not an autoreply, that speaks directly to their question, drawn from how your business works.
A call gets booked for next week. You find out about all of this on Monday.
Because Monday morning, your project manager agent opens the week for you – with the three things that need your attention. The call that got booked. The proposal ready for your final look. The one last question that needs a human.
When you want to know what happened while you were gone, you don't dig through your inbox to reconstruct the week. You glance at your dashboard.
Enquiries in, replies sent, pipeline warmed, payments reconciled – all of it in one place, already up to date, because no one had to type it in. Least of all you.
Get the AI Solopreneur program + all 5 bonuses
For one payment of $1,399.
- 6x total weeks of hands-on workshops and labs – one working AI agent built for your business every week
- 2x 5hr sessions (Week 1 + Week 6 from 1:00pm–6:00pm)
- 4x 3hr session (Weeks 2–5 from 3:00pm–6:00pm)
- In-person delivery on a consistent day each week for each city (Sydney: Tuesday, Melbourne: Wednesday, Adelaide: Thursday)
- Guided by MLAI's technical delivery leads and commercial session partners including Anthropic, Gradient Institute, Notion and Stripe.
Plus:
- $500 in Anthropic credits
- Hub residency up to 3 days a week for 6 weeks ($1,080 value on its own)
- National mentor pool access
- Weekly cohort check-ins + dedicated Slack channel
- Showcase, graduation, certificate and public launch moment
This cohort program is only available for a limited time. Creating a team of AI agents is one of the best investments you can make in your business. Get started today.
Cohort 1 closing soon – book now
Diversity scholarships and discounted rates are available for founders from underrepresented backgrounds or facing financial barriers. Contact us if that's you.
