AI for productivity and investment readiness
When: Thursday 29 January 2026, 10:00 - 13:30
Where: STEAMhouse Birmingham
Get free tickets: Click here to register.
Join our fully funded AI + Investment Readiness workshop for pre-start and established businesses. You’ll learn practical AI tools that save you time, reduce your costs to help you grow, plus how to use them to strengthen your business plans and financials so that you can improve productivity and be in a better position to secure loans, grants or investment.
Who should attend?
- Founders and business owners actively exploring funding (loans, grants, equity or investment)
- Pre-start, start-up and established businesses who want practical AI tools to support growth
- Growth-stage businesses in Birmingham, the Black Country or Solihull
- Anyone who wants to streamline operations and create more polished, funder-ready applications
What you’ll learn
- How to use AI to validate ideas, sharpen your proposition and move faster (including MVP support)
- What funders really look for — and how to avoid common pitfalls
- A live demonstration of Growth Canvas to help you map out your growth plan
- Simple ways to use AI to work smarter (marketing, admin, operations and planning)
- How to build a compelling investor pack (or improve what you already have)
- Free/low-cost AI tools to help you write business plans, create financial forecasts and build pitch decks
Lunch provided
