The AI-Ready AgencyThursday 17 September · COhatch Lakeland
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David AI SystemsLakeland, Florida
Thursday, September 17 · 8:30 to 11:30am

The AI-ReadyAgency

A working half day for independent insurance agency owners. Built and taught by two people who ship this software for a living, not by a conference speaker.

You will leave with one thing running in your agency. Not a folder of notes.
WhenThu 17 Sept, 8:30 to 11:30am
WhereCOhatch Lakeland
SeatsLimited
Cost$499 per seat
Why we are doing this

You have been pitched AI for two years. You still do not have any of it running.

That is not your fault. Almost everything written for agency owners is either a vendor demo of software you cannot change, or a keynote that ends with "the future is coming." Neither one leaves you with anything on Monday.

This is three hours in a room with other owners from Polk County, and everybody leaves having built the same working thing on their own laptop, wired to their own agency. We are not going to talk about what AI might do in five years. We are going to spend the back half of the morning building something that runs when you get back to your desk.

The takeaway

What you walk out with

1

One automation, live

Built on your own workflow with you in the room, on your laptop, using your agency's real situation. Not a demo of somebody else's setup that you cannot reproduce later.

2

The honest capability list

The three jobs an agency can hand to AI today, and the ones it still does badly. The second half of that list is the half nobody selling you software will read out loud.

3

Where AI is going

An understanding of where this is heading, how quickly it will get there, and what you may miss out on by waiting.

The build block

Everyone builds the same thing. You pick which thing.

A room of owners each building something different in one morning does not work, and anybody who promises it has not tried. So we all build one, together, and you choose it when you register. Whichever gets the most votes is what we build on the 17th.

Option A

The renewal drafter

Feed it your renewal list. It sorts by policy type and days out, then drafts the check-in for each one in your voice with the specifics of that policy. You read and send.

Best if renewals slip because nobody has time to write them.
Option B

The inbox triage

Paste in a morning of client email. It works out what each one actually wants, a certificate, a policy change, an ID card, a billing question, and drafts the reply in your own template language for someone to check and send.

Best if service requests eat the first two hours of every day.
Option C

The ask-once intake sheet

One intake that captures everything carriers ask for, turned into a clean master sheet your staff work from. It will not stop you re-keying into each carrier portal, nothing built in a morning will, but it does stop you asking the client four times.

Best if the same information gets collected over and over.
What to expect

The morning, hour by hour

Three hours. Two of them are talking, one of them is you building. Coffee throughout.

8:30

Doors, coffee, get your laptop on the wifi

Come a few minutes early. We want everyone connected and ready before we start, because the build block later depends on it.

8:45

Where this actually is right now

An honest read on what these tools do for an agency your size in 2026. What has genuinely changed in the last year, what has not, and which of the things you have been told are simply marketing.

9:20

The three jobs it does well, and the ones it does badly

Where it beats a person, where it is a liability, and how to tell the difference before you have staked a client relationship on it. Including the client data question and what you are responsible for.

10:00

Break

10:10

Build block: you build the thing

Laptops open. We build the option the room voted for, step by step, everyone at once, each of us wiring it to your own agency. You will have it working before you leave. We come around the room. Nobody gets left behind.

11:10

What to do Monday, and questions

Where to point this next, what to try second, and what to leave alone for now. Then open questions for as long as they keep coming.

11:30

Done

We stay after for anyone who wants to keep going.

Who is teaching it

Two people who build this for a living

Matt
Automation and agent systems

Builds and runs the agent systems that handle marketing, content, outreach and reporting for small businesses across Florida. Lakeland based. Spends most days shipping the kind of automation we will build on the 17th.

Chris
Software for insurance agencies

Builds software used by agencies every day. One of his products answers the phone when nobody in the office can get to it, so a caller is handled instead of going to voicemail. Another turns a quote into a short personal video for the client. He also builds private AI systems that run on hardware inside a business rather than in somebody else's cloud.

30+
AI agents running across the stack, from research to reporting
10+
engagements shipped across nine verticals
1
operator on every engagement, by name, not a rotating account team
Details

Before you come

The particulars

Date
Thursday, 17 September 2026
Time
8:30 to 11:30am, doors at 8:30
Where
COhatch Lakeland
Cost
$499 per seat
Seats
Limited, and we mean it. The build block only works with a small room.
Who
Owners and principals of independent insurance agencies

The guarantee

If you get to 11:30 and you do not have something you can use the next morning, say so and we refund the seat. You do not have to justify it and we will not argue about it.

We would rather give the money back than have you tell another agency owner in Polk County that it was not worth the morning.

Bring a laptop. This part is not optional.

The whole back half of the morning is you building on your own machine. A tablet will not do it. If that is a problem, email us before the 17th and we will sort something out.

Questions

Reasonable things to ask

Do I need to be technical?

No. If you can use email and a web browser you will keep up. There is no code. We picked the build options specifically because they do not require any.

Can I send someone from my team instead?

Yes, though we would rather have the owner. The decisions that come out of the morning are usually owner decisions, and the person who attends is the one who leaves able to build.

What if something comes up and I cannot make it?

Tell us before the 17th and we will move you to the next one or refund you. We would just rather know, because a held seat that goes empty is a seat another owner wanted.

Will there be anything to take home?

Yes. The thing you built, working, plus written steps for rebuilding it and pointing it at something else later.

What about my carrier's rules on this?

We will cover the general shape of what to watch for. Each individual is responsible for adhering to their carrier's individual guidelines, and we will be clear about where that line sits.

Reserve a seat

Thursday 17 September, 8:30 to 11:30am, COhatch Lakeland. $499 per seat.

No payment now. We will email you to confirm and take payment before the 17th. Prefer to talk first? Email ops@davidaisystems.com.

Your seat is held.

We will email you shortly to confirm and sort out payment before the 17th. Bring a laptop.