The AI Starter Kit for SMB owners.
A practical toolkit plus the RH Consulting 2026 AI Readiness Report. Where your business actually stands, and the first two moves that matter.
No email needed for the toolkit. The readiness report comes with the form below.
What is inside
- The Small Business AI Toolkit: a short, ordered list of free AI tools for small business owners, including how to connect an assistant to your email and calendar
- Three simple rules for keeping AI use safe
- The full 2026 AI Readiness Report as the backing research on where small businesses actually stand
- The first two moves that matter, and the two AI use cases most SMBs get wrong
Free, no email required.
Written by Rick Hancock. Fractional CAIO running an AI operating system with 19 AI agents on live schedules in production. HIPAA-trained. No fluff.
Where this fits
The Starter Kit is the on-ramp. Rick runs a three-workshop curriculum for owner-operators, and a done-for-you build above it. Two sessions are on the schedule. You can add yourself to the notify list on the form below.
AI Tools Mastery
Foundational · 90 min
From tool confusion to a clear mental model of five AI categories: text, image, audio, video, and action-based, with hands-on reps in each.
Prompt Engineering
Intermediate · 90 min
From ad hoc ChatGPT use to the PRO-MPT framework and reusable prompt systems built on your actual work.
AI Direction Workshop
Advanced · 90 min
Two scoped AI use cases, a governance boundary you can defend, and a 30-day plan owner-operators can act on.
AI Operating System
Done-for-you build · engagement
The rung above the workshops. Rather than leaving with the 30-day plan, the plan gets built and run for you, with monitoring and rollback from the first agent.
See the build engagementReady to go deeper? See the AI Direction Workshop.