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A slow mess announces itself. Work piles up, people complain, somebody fixes it. A fast one looks like progress right up until you check the numbers and nothing moved.
Your members have been living in one. Most of them have never had a name for it.
Check a date21 yrs military14 yrs operations26+ organizations advised
Play it. One customer's request carried through a business, three acts, a clock running the whole time. This is what your room watches while I talk over the top of it. Nobody checks their phone during act two.
02Who's in the room
Not a technical audience. Not people deciding whether to start. Most of the room already spent the money, either on purpose or because a vendor switched something on inside software they already pay for. They can't point to what changed, and nobody has given them permission to say so out loud.
Mixed rooms, mixed industries. The one thing everybody shares is a process they run every week that takes too long. That's all the talk needs.
Contractors, agencies, dealers, clinics. Same argument, their vocabulary. Tell me what your members do all day and the examples come from their world, not from a tech company.
Smaller, further along, harder to impress. These rooms want the mechanism and the argument, and they'll push back. Good.
Corey volunteers with the New Mexico Veterans Chamber of Commerce. He has been in the folding chairs.
03What the room walks out with
Everybody in that room has felt this and none of them has a name for it. A slow mess announces itself. Work piles up, people complain, somebody fixes it. A fast one looks like progress right up until the numbers get checked and nothing moved.
Give a room the name and they use it on the drive home. That's what makes a talk still be working three weeks later.
The process it landed on had not been looked at in years. One step got quicker. The week stayed exactly as long. Nobody in the room has said this out loud before and every one of them has felt it.
Attached to a step nobody examined, or the whole process rebuilt around what the tool makes possible. In the second one, steps stop existing. That's the moment the room goes quiet.
What do you have to have? What do you want to have? Almost every process anybody has ever fixed only asked the first one. The second is where the interesting part lives.
04Formats
Same argument at every length. What changes is how much of it the room does themselves.
One idea and the name for it. Fits an announcements slot or the front of somebody else's programme.
The problem, the cause, and the distinction between bolted on and bolted in. Ends before the plates are cleared.
Adds the arithmetic. The room does the math on their own process and finds out the week didn't get shorter.
The full argument with the examples built for your audience, and time at the end for the questions people only ask once somebody else has asked one.
Hands on paper. Everybody maps a process they actually run, then draws it again from a blank page. Caps at twelve so everyone gets looked at.
The 45 is the one most conferences want. The 15 is the one chambers book. Virtual works for all of them, and I'll tell you honestly that the half day does not survive a screen.
05Why him
I've never had to clean up a faster mess. I've never let anyone build one.
"I'll tell you not to buy it" is only credible from someone who could have built it. Conefer is an OpenAI Select Partner and I ship the implementations myself. That's the whole reason a room believes the restraint instead of hearing a consultant with nothing to sell.
A sales-training program ran twelve months before anyone knew which new hires were worth keeping. Rebuilt to run in six. At the three-month review the platform's signal already matched the client's own sales figures. This is the example the longer formats work through.
AI consultant. Twenty-one years in the military, fourteen in corporate operations. Runs the Conefer Recon, a diagnostic that grades the AI already running in a business and builds what should have been there instead, or says plainly what to stop paying for. Based in New Mexico, speaking across the country.
06For the programme chair
You're probably not the only person deciding this. Take the whole page if you want, or just the parts below. Copy the bio, grab the headshot, done.
Corey Frasure, the AI Mad Genius, founder of Conefer, Inc. An AI consultant who grades the AI a business already bought, then builds what should have been there instead.
Corey Frasure is an AI consultant and the founder of Conefer, Inc., an OpenAI Select Partner. He spent twenty-one years in the military and fourteen in corporate operations before he started grading other people’s AI for a living. He has advised more than twenty-six organizations. His argument is that most businesses did not buy a bad tool. They bolted it onto a process nobody had examined in years, and now they have a faster mess. Based in New Mexico. Clients across the country.
Corey Frasure, the AI Mad Genius, is the founder of Conefer, Inc., a veteran-led AI consulting firm and an OpenAI Select Partner. He runs the Conefer Recon, a diagnostic that grades the AI already running in a business and builds what should have been there instead, or says plainly what to stop paying for. Twenty-one years in the military and fourteen in corporate operations taught him to look at a process before anyone touches it. More than twenty-six organizations have taken that look with him. He builds the implementations himself, which is what makes it credible when he tells an owner not to buy something. He volunteers with the New Mexico Veterans Chamber of Commerce. Based in New Mexico, speaking across the country.
Room of forty or fewer with decent acoustics, skip the microphone. Tell me what you've got and I'll plan around it.
No. No product demo, no slide at the end with prices on it, no table in the back. Your members get taught something they can use, and if one of them wants to keep talking afterward, that is their move to make. Put it in the agreement if you want it in writing. I will sign that.
It is built for people who own a business, not people who build software. Nobody has to know what a model is. The whole talk runs on one thing everyone in the room already has: a process they run every week that takes longer than it should.
Yes, and I will ask you for what I need to do it. Who is in the seats, what they do all day, what they already tried. A talk built for a general business audience and delivered to a room of plumbing contractors is the reason your members stop coming to lunch.
A chamber lunch can come together in a couple of weeks. A conference slot usually wants more room than that. Ask either way, and I will tell you straight if the date does not work.
A screen or a projector, and a lapel or handheld microphone in a room bigger than about forty people. I bring my own laptop and clicker. If the room has none of that I can still work; tell me in advance and I will plan for it.
07Check a date
Three things to start. The event details come after, and skip any you don't know yet. I answer these myself.
Chamber lunch in three weeks? Ask. Conference next spring? Also ask. I'd rather tell you a date doesn't work than have you wondering.