What Happens on a Free AI Business Coach Call, and How to Prepare

Before anything else: it is a conversation

There are no slides. His website describes the call as a talk through how your business really runs, with no jargon and no sales script. It is free, and there is no obligation to go further.

This page describes the call offered by Dean Keating, who publishes Guildford.co. Other providers offer free first calls too, and the preparation below works for any of them.

What gets covered

His website lists three things.

• How your business runs. Where the time goes, who does what, which software you use.
• The jobs worth automating first, and the ones that are not worth it yet. The second half matters as much as the first.
• An honest read on what doing it all by hand is costing you in time and wages. That figure comes from your own numbers, worked out with you.

What you leave with

A shortlist. His website says you can act on it whether he builds it or you take the plan and do it yourself.

If you ask, you will also get a price for having it built. There is no published price list, because the cost depends on how much is being automated.

How to book

• Call or WhatsApp 07418 627304.
• Book a slot on his AI Business Coach calendar.
• Use the form on his website. It asks how many people in your business do desk work and which day and time suit you, then opens WhatsApp so he can confirm.
• Email dean@deankeating.com.

The call is held remotely. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, on the A3 south of Guildford, not in Guildford. His website says the call is for owners and managers of a trading business.

Ten minutes of preparation

You do not need to prepare. But if you do these five things the list you leave with will be sharper.

1. Write down where enquiries arrive. Phone, website form, email, WhatsApp, social media, a marketplace.
2. Count last week's. How many came in, how many got a reply the same day, how many turned into work. A rough tally is fine.
3. List your software. Email, diary, accounts package, any CRM or booking system. AI is installed inside these, so they shape what is possible.
4. Name the job you hate. The one you do at nine at night. It is often the right place to start.
5. Decide who would look after it. You, or someone in the office.

Questions worth asking on the call

• Which of my jobs would you not automate?
• What would you do first, and why that one?
• What will I be able to see? Every message it sends?
• What happens when it does not know the answer?
• Who changes it when my prices change?
• What would it cost, and what is not included?

More are in how to choose an AI business coach.

What the call is not

It is not a training session. You will not be taught to use ChatGPT in half an hour. It is not a classroom course and there is no certificate. And it is not a commitment: his website says that if the service is not a fit he will tell you, and the plan is yours to keep either way.

After the call

You have three choices, and all are fine.

Do it yourself. Take the shortlist and set up the first job with tools you already have. How to start using ChatGPT in a small business may help.

Have it built. His paid service builds and installs AI agents in the tools you already use and trains your team on them.

Compare. Take another free call first. Wey Advisory and AI Coach both offer one, and they are described on our list of AI business coaches and consultants in Guildford. Two calls will teach you more than one.

Is it worth half an hour?

If nothing in your business is repetitive or done at a screen, probably not, and his own website says so. If enquiries, quotes or paperwork are slipping, the call costs you nothing but the time.

The main page for the service is AI business coach in Guildford. Call Dean or book the free AI call.

Contact

Call or WhatsApp Dean Keating on 07418 627304, or email dean@deankeating.com. See the Dean Keating profile on Guildford.co. Websites: ai-agent.deankeating.com and deankeating.com.

About this guide

Guildford.co is published by Dean Keating, who also runs the service described here. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, not in Guildford, and works with Guildford businesses remotely. This guide recommends our own service, so compare it with other providers before you decide.