AI And Your Business

AI in Action: Real-World Tools for Business Success

About the Event

Join us for a deep dive into the current state of AI, its practical applications today, and the trends shaping its future. Businesses are at a pivotal moment—moving from AI as a task-specific tool to AI that can reason, make decisions, and drive outcomes with greater autonomy.

What You’ll Learn:

Real-world use cases of AI in business today
Live demonstrations of AI generating full codebases and applications
Understanding AI agents: the difference between agentive (assistive) and agentic (autonomous) tools
How AI agents make decisions and the outcomes you can expect
Overview of leading AI companies and their specialties
Structuring your business data to maximize AI effectiveness, moving beyond pretrained models to custom agents
Practical applications: solving up to 70% of a problem with AI while identifying where human input remains critical
Common misconceptions, tips, and best practices
Risks and ethical considerations, including hallucinations, data privacy, legal implications, and responsible use
Impact on productivity: how properly configured AI agents can reduce task time by 60–70%, cutting labor costs and freeing time for strategic work

About Alex Goff:
Alex Goff, Founder of Powered By Catalyst, leads the company in providing AI services, web design, and digital infrastructure. Alex believes the modern website is evolving into a central hub for business operations—beyond marketing—to enable automation, customer engagement, and data intelligence.

Before launching Powered By Catalyst, Alex sold a mobile app in 2021 featuring early AI capabilities. He also served six years as COO of a manufacturing company, managing operations and building scalable backend and data systems, giving him a unique perspective on operational systems and technology integration.

Thank you to the Erie Business Connections group for hosting this event:

The Erie Chamber Business Connections is a group of business owners whose goal is to build relationships, learn about resources and help each other by referring business. These opportunities are done through the building of strong personal connections in a non-competitive and mutually supportive environment. Relationships - Resources - Referrals!

What do we do?

Erie Chamber Business Connections meets the 1st and the 3rd Thursdays of each month @ 7:30am. for networking and meeting is 7:45am to 8:45am. Calvary Bible Church - 615 Evans St, Erie, CO

Our group meets twice monthly to share about each other's businesses and hear presentations about topics that are relevant to supporting your business.

If you are interested in networking with other professions to grow your business,

please contact: eriebusinessconnection@gmail.com