Templates, not theory.
You leave with the actual setup, the saved skills, and the checklists running on your real business. Not a slide deck and a certificate.
SkillBuild AI · a practical school for business owners, consultants, and freelancers.
Most people use AI like a smarter Google. You can use it like a junior team member.
SkillBuild is a small practical AI school. Each workshop is four hours, live online, capped at fifteen seats — built around the actual work you'd love AI to be doing, not the theory. Codex for Business Owners is the founding cohort, opening in June.
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$197 AUD · 15 seats · founding cohort · refunds up to 48h before
I've been doing this work for twenty years — running marketing agencies, leading dev teams, coaching hundreds of business owners through the same jobs you've probably got open in another tab. Websites, ad campaigns, copy, the apps, the books, the admin, the support, the analytics, the reports. The full-stack-of-everything that comes with running a small business.
Three months ago I stopped doing most of it manually. Not because I got smarter. Because I worked out how to set AI up like a junior team member that knows my business inside out.
Now the workday looks like this: Brief it. Review it. Approve it. Repeat.
In the last week alone I rebuilt three of my own websites, shipped twelve Chrome extensions, drafted ad campaigns I'd been putting off for months, launched a new business, and kept the inbox basically empty. I'm not working harder. The tool is doing the work — and I'm the one reviewing it.
SkillBuild is the school I'm building to teach this. Each workshop is four hours, capped at fifteen, taught on your real business. The first one — Codex for Business Owners — opens in June. More follow.
What SkillBuild's about
Practical school. Practical workshops. No theatre.
Operational, not theoretical.
The workshops are about jobs you already do — websites, copy, ads, admin, planning — done with AI in the loop. Not "what is an LLM" detours.
For owners, not engineers.
If you can use software you can do this. We teach in plain English. No code, no terminal, no developer language unless you want it.
Bob Jones — twenty years of doing this for businesses, before AI made it possible to teach.
Two decades running marketing agencies, leading development teams, and coaching small business owners through the same jobs you've probably got on your list. Founded SkillBuild to teach what made the last three months of my own work possible — set AI up properly, brief it on your business, review the output, ship.
- Twenty years running marketing and dev for small Australian businesses.
- Founder of A1Local, A1Apps, and SkillBuild AI.
- Independent — not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, or any AI vendor.
- Based in Perth, AU · workshops run fully online.
Before you sign up
Questions I get a lot.
Do I need to be technical?
Nope. If you can use Gmail and a website builder, you're fine. No coding, no terminal, no developer stuff.
Will you tell me to cancel every subscription I'm paying for?
No. Some tools are pulling their weight, some aren't. We help you tell the difference — not torch the lot.
Will I walk out with a finished website?
No, and anyone promising that in four hours is having a lend of you. You walk out with a working setup, clear next steps, and the confidence to keep going on your own.
Is this an OpenAI thing?
No. SkillBuild AI is independent. Codex is the tool we're teaching you to use, not a brand we're affiliated with.
P.S. This whole booking website was built with Codex — copy, layout, Stripe checkout, member portal, the lot. A few hours of briefing and reviewing, no agency, no developer. The site you're reading is the workshop in action.