Free · Wed May 13, 2026 · 10:30 AM ET · ReCity Durham · Hosted by ISONEW · Endorsed by ReCity Network

    90 minutes from “tried AI” to “AI is working in my business.”

    200-seat hands-on session. Bring one process you have been meaning to fix. Walk out with a working AI agent on your data — running in Claude or ChatGPT by Wednesday afternoon.

    Free · 90 minutes · Bring laptop · Walk out with agent

    Minutes
    90
    Hands-on seats
    200
    Agent shipped
    1
    To attend
    $0

    The gap

    You tried AI. Nothing has actually changed how your business runs.

    92% of nonprofits use AI. Only 7% report meaningful impact. Most of the use is reactive and individual — one ChatGPT account on the founder's email, no shared practice. The same shape shows up in SMB data: 46% abandon AI tools because they cannot wire them into the actual workflow. The wedge is not awareness. It is deployment.

    1. 01“I have used ChatGPT — but nothing in how my business actually runs has changed.”
    2. 02“I know AI could help. I do not know where to start for my business.”
    3. 03“Agencies quote $50K. I cannot fund a transformation just to find out.”
    4. 04“My team needs something tomorrow, not a six-month rollout.”
    5. 05“Every guide says “just prompt better.” There is no playbook for someone like me.”

    The distance between “I tried AI” and “AI is working for me” is not more tutorials. It is the first real artifact running in your business, in your tools, with your data. That is what we ship in 90 minutes.

    The 90 minutes

    Capture · Synthesize · Deploy · Handoff. One agent shipped.

    Min 0-20

    CAPTURE

    Signal capture

    12 diagnostic questions out loud. We listen and capture the signals from your business in your language — verbatim, no interpretation.

    Min 20-50

    SYNTHESIZE

    Pattern match

    Your signals match against 20 proven AI deployment patterns. The top 1-3 quick wins surface, ranked by Impact × Effort.

    Min 50-80

    DEPLOY

    Build live

    Your agent gets configured around your top quick win — live in Claude or ChatGPT. Yours forever. No vendor lock-in. No SaaS seat.

    Min 80-90

    HANDOFF

    Take it home

    Magic link to the 14-day portal. Calendar invite. Your agent travels home with you and is running by tomorrow morning.

    Who shows up

    Whatever you operate in the Triangle, this session is built for you.

    We have run this framework with operators across four shapes of business. The diagnostic adapts. The agent is yours.

    Nonprofit / NGO

    You bring

    One repetitive ED task — grant writing, donor reports, intake triage — that you wish ran without you.

    You leave with

    An agent drafting that exact thing in your voice, on your data, by Wednesday afternoon.

    SMB owner · 10-50

    You bring

    One workflow that costs you the most ops time — quoting, scheduling, support triage, follow-up.

    You leave with

    An agent that handles the first pass while your team reviews — running in your existing stack, not a new SaaS seat.

    Solo / fractional

    You bring

    The deliverable you produce most — the proposal, the strategy memo, the client report.

    You leave with

    A productized agent you can deploy on every client engagement — your style, your IP, your asset.

    Government / civic

    You bring

    A constituent-service or internal-ops workflow. Synthetic data is fine — we never store or train on it.

    You leave with

    A working sandbox agent + a procurement-defensible deployment plan for your IT lead.

    Hosted at

    ReCity Network — Durham social impact hub.

    ReCity convenes 85 member organizations — nonprofits, B-corps, and mission-driven SMBs — leading Durham's social-sector AI readiness.

    LEAP is an ISONEW product. The May 13 session is hosted at ReCity and endorsed by their leadership — open to ReCity members and any Triangle operator ready to leave the “tried AI” phase behind.

    ReCity Network85 member orgsDurham, NC
    “Ronan, you can put two people to make a training to replicate your AI framework to get the organizations more productive or doing the things fast with low cost.”
    — KJ Hill · Executive Director, ReCity Network

    Facilitated by

    Operator, not consultant.

    Ronan Pinho

    Ronan Pinho

    Founder, ISONEW · Apex, NC

    • Four AI-powered SMB products in production: Chatsac (Instagram DM automation), ChurnDefense (PLG churn analytics), FG Clínica (clinic ops AI), ISONEW (GTM engineering studio).
    • $6M+ portfolio revenue (2024) across those products — all running on the same framework you will see Wednesday morning.
    • Triangle operator, ReCity member, based in Apex NC. The framework was prototyped on my own companies before any cohort ever ran.

    I am not a consultant. I am the operator who uses this framework daily to ship artifacts in my own companies. Everything you will see Wednesday is what I actually run — not theory, not slideware.

    After the 90 minutes

    Your agent travels home with you.

    Minute 90

    Artifact + agent emailed

    Magic link to the 14-day portal. Download the .txt agent. Paste into Claude or ChatGPT. Ready in under 30 seconds.

    Day 1

    You open the agent on real work

    Use it. Break it. Modify it. Tell us what happened. This is where you start compounding.

    Day 2 (48h)

    We ping you

    Quick check-in. If the agent is still running on Day 2, you have crossed the line where AI stops being a tab and starts being a teammate.

    Week 2

    Optional cohort invite

    If you want to deploy 3-5 more workflows with my direct supervision over 4 weeks, the cohort opens May 20. No pitch in the room — link only.

    Common questions

    But what about…

    For the skeptic

    Is this really free? What is the catch?

    Yes, free. There is no hidden upsell during the session. We share a link at the end for the optional 4-week cohort that follows — that is a paid program ($1,500 nonprofit / $2,500 for-profit). The 90 minutes themselves are real work, not a sales pitch.

    For the technical

    How is this different from prompting ChatGPT myself?

    You can prompt ChatGPT yourself — most people extract about 20% of AI's potential that way. LEAP gives you a signal-grounded diagnostic, a ranked Opportunity Matrix, and a deployable agent with zero-fabrication guardrails. You leave with an artifact, not notes.

    For the time-pressed

    I am slammed. Why 90 minutes?

    Because less is not enough for a real artifact and more wastes your time. 90 minutes is the minimum viable session length to go from signal capture to deployed agent. Hard end at minute 90.

    For the nonprofit

    Will this apply to mission-driven orgs?

    Yes — LEAP is deliberately built for mission-driven orgs, and ReCity Network's 85 member organizations are a core audience (the session is hosted at ReCity for that reason). Your signal might be grant writing, donor comms, or program reporting instead of sales ops. Same framework.

    For the executive

    Can I send someone from my team?

    One seat = one person. We want the decision-maker or the doer — whoever will actually use the agent on real work. If you are the CEO but will not touch it, send your COO. If you are an IC but need exec sign-off to deploy, bring them both.

    For the returner

    What if I have already done AI workshops?

    You will feel the difference in the first 20 minutes. LEAP is not “learn about AI.” It is “deploy AI, now, for your specific problem.” The output is an artifact you can use tomorrow, not slides. If by minute 30 you think this is the same as what you have done before, you can leave — your time is yours.

    For the data-sensitive

    What about my customer data or PHI?

    Bring sample data or use a synthetic project. We do not store anything past the session. For regulated workloads (healthcare, government, financial), use the built-in sandbox mode — the agent we ship runs against your read access only and never exfiltrates.

    Reserve your seat

    Wed May 13 · 10:30 AM-12:00 PM ET · ReCity Durham.

    Free · 200 seats · in-person only. Bring your laptop and one workflow you have been meaning to fix.

    Submitting writes to the cohort registry, sends a confirmation with a calendar invite, and adds you to the 14-day portal. We do not share your data with third parties.