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One-day online AI workshop · South Africa

Same business. 10 hours a week back.

Hand over the proposals, follow-ups and admin that eat your week. Built with you in one day, online.

One day · Get the 10 hours back or you don’t pay

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FormatOne day · Online

PriceR990 founding rate

Session detailsConfirmed on registration

Bring a laptop and a safe example of your work. Contact us to confirm required tools, any subscriptions and VAT treatment before paying.

You can read the rest of this, or you can book the day and read it while you wait.

Online workshop · R990 · Details confirmed on registration

Get my time back
Let’s start with your week

You write the proposals.

You chase the follow-ups.

You fix the quote that was nearly right.

You answer the WhatsApps.

You do the invoices at 21:00.

Then Saturday goes on the work you actually get paid for.

That’s 10 hours a week, and your business can only grow to the size of your week.

Every month you stay the bottleneck, you turn down work you could have taken, and someone slower than you but better organised takes it instead.

A business that runs on one person doesn’t stay the same size. It shrinks to fit that person’s week.

Every owner starts out doing everything. It works, right up until it doesn’t.

You are not short on effort. You are short on hours. And the busy work has first claim on every one of them.

Your business can only ever grow to the size of your week.

A business owner buried in admin at their desk

Right now

Every hour here is an hour not spent growing anything.

The cost of staying stuck

Work out what this is already costing you.

The cost of busy work

What is it actually costing you?

The bill for repetitive work never lands all at once. It comes in slices, an hour at a time, so you never see the full number. Move the sliders and see it.

12 hrs
Follow-ups, quotes, scheduling, chasing, copy-paste admin.
R450
A rough sense is fine. What you would pay to buy an hour back.

Worked on 48 working weeks a year and an 8 hour day. Illustrative estimates; actual results depend on the workflow.

Statement, per year
R259 200
estimated annual time value, not guaranteed cash savings
Hours lost a year
576 hrs
That is working days
72 days
Roughly a whole
a quarter of your year
If the workshop gives you 10 hours a week back
R216 000 a year, in potential time value
Get my time back

Start with one repetitive task. Measure the time before and after.

Online workshop · R990 · Details confirmed on registration

Get my time back
Here’s the real reason

It doesn’t know your business.

Pick the job that eats most of your week. I’ll ask the same AI twice.

You ask

Write the proposal for the Sandton client we met on Tuesday.

Public AI · doesn't know you

Dear [Client Name], Thank you for the opportunity to submit this proposal. We are a [industry] company committed to delivering excellence and value. Investment: [Insert pricing] Timeline: [Insert timeline] We look forward to partnering with you on this exciting journey.

AI that knows your business

Hi Thabo, Good to meet on Tuesday. You said the two-week turnaround is what keeps costing you, so I've built this around that. Same three phases we ran for the Midrand job. R148,000, our standard 50/50 terms. Valid 14 days, per our usual. Shall I send the SLA through as well?

Illustrative example, not a customer result. Review every AI draft before sending.

Closing that gap is the whole day. You build it, we guide it.

One day · Get the 10 hours back or you don’t pay

Get my time back
What you will climb

The seven levels
of AI.

Every business sits somewhere on this ladder. The work is knowing exactly where you stand, then climbing, one deliberate step at a time.

Most owners are stuck between level two and three, renting tools and still doing all the work by hand. The value lives higher up.

Seven rungs · drag or step through

  1. 01

    Understanding

    Know what AI can actually do

  2. 02Where most start

    Assistance

    Useful, but you still do the work

  3. 03

    Asset creation

    Build once, use often

  4. 04

    Automation

    Connect the busy work so it runs itself

  5. 05

    Agentic AI

    Assign outcomes, not tasks

  6. 06Ownership

    Autonomous AI

    Systems in your own environment

  7. 07Ownership

    Enterprise intelligence

    Trained on your knowledge

The shift you are after runs right up this ladder: from AI curious, to AI owned. From operator, to owner.

Where this day takes you

From level two to level four, in one day.

You arrive renting a tool that forgets you every morning. You leave with an asset you own — your business written down once, wired to a worker, running a routine overnight without you. That is levels three and four, built and live.

Five, six and seven are a longer road, and they are not what you are buying here. What you are buying is the rung that gives you your week back.

Be honest with yourself here

This is for you if…

  • You own the business, and you’re also still doing the work in it.
  • You have between 3 and 50 people, and you’re the bottleneck for most of them.
  • You’ve tried ChatGPT, got something generic, and quietly went back to doing it yourself.
  • You’re not technical, and you don’t plan to be.
  • You can give one full day to fixing this, laptop open, real work in hand.

If you can send a WhatsApp voice note, you can do this. The owners in our sessions do not need to be developers.

It’s not for you if you want AI to run your whole business while you sit on a beach. That is not real, and I am not going to pretend it is on the day.

It is also not for you if you cannot make the full day. Half a day gets you half a system, and half a system is the thing you already have.

If that is you, the next step is one day online.

One day · Ten hours a week · Built online

Get my time back
What happens on the day

You build it, not just hear about it.

You walk in an operator. You walk out an owner, with the systems already running.

01

Find your 10 hours

We map where your week actually goes. Not a vague “I’m busy”, but the real list: the tasks you repeat, the questions you answer twice, the work only you can do because it all lives in your head.

You hand over: the guessing. You leave this hour knowing precisely what is getting fixed.

02

Build your business a brain

One place that holds everything about your business: how you work, who your clients are, what you sell, how you say it. From now on you never re-explain yourself to a tool again.

You hand over: repeating yourself. The re-typing, the re-briefing, the starting from scratch.

03

Wire the brain to a worker

We connect that brain to an AI that can actually do the work. It loads your whole business the moment you open it, so every task starts with full context instead of a blank page.

You hand over: the setup tax you pay every single time you sit down to work.

04

Put it to work in front of you

This is where you feel it. You run a real task live: research, a first draft, a follow-up, whatever eats your week. Compare the draft with your usual process, check its accuracy and measure the time it saves.

You hand over: the manual grind. Research, first drafts, the busy work that never needed you.

05

Make it work while you sleep

You set up a routine that runs overnight, so you wake to work already moving instead of a to-do list you have to kickstart. Every day it starts further ahead than the last.

You hand over: the blank Monday morning. You stop being the thing that has to start everything.

06

Lock in the rhythm

We turn all of it into a simple daily rhythm you can keep. You leave with the systems live, not a folder of notes and good intentions.

You hand over: the risk of going home and never using it.

Start using your workflow that week and track the time you save. Results depend on your work and how you use the system.

Everything you walk away with

What you walk away with.

  • Your business brain, built and live, so you never re-explain yourself to a tool again
  • An AI worker wired to that brain, starting every task already knowing your business
  • Your first real tasks handed over on the day, with the hours coming off in front of you
  • An overnight routine that keeps work moving while you sleep
  • A simple daily rhythm that keeps the systems running long after you leave
  • The workbook you build in, so you go home with everything documented, not half-remembered
  • A group of other operators making the same shift, and the group that keeps going after the day ends
The guarantee

The 10 hours back, or you don't pay.

Show up, do the builds with us on the day, and use the systems for 30 days. If by day 30 you have not clawed back at least 10 hours a week, email info@growthcred.co.za and we refund you in full. No hoops, no “prove it” runaround.

The window is 30 days from your workshop date. We refund the full price within 7 business days.

Your results depend on the workflows you choose and use. We help you build and test them during the workshop; the refund commitment above remains in place.

Phila Ngwenya, Founder of GrowthCred
Who runs the day

Phila Ngwenya.

Founder & CEO, GrowthCred

I help South African business owners remove the repetitive work that eats their week.

I do not just add AI tools. I build systems, in the right order, so your goals get met with less of your time and none of the guesswork.

Founder-led. Rosebank, Johannesburg. South African owned.

A calmer week, in control

The other side

A business that runs while you run it.

Questions

Questions people actually ask.

Where and when is the workshop?
The workshop is online. Your session date, time and joining details are confirmed on registration. You do not need to travel to Johannesburg.
Which tools and subscriptions do I need?
Bring your laptop and a real task you can safely practise with. Contact us to confirm the tool list and any paid subscriptions before purchasing software. Tool costs are separate unless expressly included.
How is this different from done-for-you automation?
The workshop teaches you to build and operate your first workflows. Our separate implementation service is scoped around your systems and team. You are not obliged to buy a later programme.
Why is it only R990?
R990 is the current founding rate for the one-day online workshop. Session details are confirmed on registration. It is also the entry rung: the day gets your week back, and the deeper work is a separate, longer programme you are never obliged to take.
I’m not technical. Will I keep up?
Yes. If you can use WhatsApp and a browser, you can do this. We build everything with you online, step by step, on your own laptop. Nobody leaves stuck.
How is this different from watching AI videos on YouTube?
YouTube teaches you what is possible. This gets it built. You leave with live systems running your actual work, not a playlist you will never finish.
Will this work for my industry?
It works because it is built around your business, not a template. Whatever you do, the systems learn your work, your clients, and your voice.
Is it done for me, or do I do it myself?
You build it, with us guiding every step. That is the point. You leave able to run and change it yourself.
What do I need to bring?
Your laptop, and the real work you want off your plate. That is it.
What happens after the day?
You go home with the systems live and a simple daily rhythm to keep them running. You also stay in the operator group.
A good first step

Your time back starts with one day.

The bill for doing nothing is already running. This is where it stops.

Online workshop · R990 · Details confirmed on registration

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