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Free assessments, planning resources, and reference guides to support your leadership and organizational work. Take what's useful. Come back often. This library grows.

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Employer Summit Shasta College

Beyond ChatGPT: The AI Shift Every Business Needs to Understand

Practical tools and human-centered leadership in the AI era. Featuring a panel of local practitioners implementing AI in their organizations, with real examples and lessons learned.

Shasta College In-person
Facilitator & Panelists
Hope Seth
Jay Dunlap
Martin Moseley
Andrew Hewatt
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Live Webinar · Free Session 3 of 3

From Idea to Deployed

Token management, memory limits, multi-instance workflows. These are the challenges that show up once you're actually building. Three practitioners demo real tools and open the floor for peer discussion.

Wednesday, May 27 12–1pm Zoom
Presenters
Hope Seth
Jay Dunlap
Matt Hugg, CEPA
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Free Assessments & Diagnostics

2 tools
⭐ Free · Most Popular

Organizational Intelligence Diagnostic

A 45-question assessment across 9 domains: Vision Alignment to Financial Resilience. Generates a custom SWOT report with your strengths, vulnerabilities, and top 3 recommended focus areas.

⏱ ~12 minutes 📊 9 domains 📄 Auto report
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AI Readiness Assessment

Is your organization ready to adopt AI. Where should you start? This 35-question diagnostic identifies your readiness across 7 domains and gives you a clear, prioritized starting point.

⏱ ~10 minutes 📊 7 domains 📄 Auto report
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Guides & Frameworks

4 guides
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AI Strategy · Getting Started

The AI Adoption On-Ramp

A practical 5-step framework for bringing AI into your organization without disrupting what's working. Start with one low-stakes process, prove the model, then scale. Built from real implementations. Not theory.

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AI Strategy · Reference Guide

Where AI Creates the Most Impact

The business operations and organizational functions where AI agents are generating the most measurable value.organized by sector with real examples and time savings estimates.

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Culture · Leadership · AI

Using AI Without Losing Your Voice

A practical framework for adopting AI across your organization while protecting the brand, values, and culture that make you distinctive. Includes the Brand Voice Guide starter template.

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AI Strategy · Consulting

AI Consulting Services Overview

A complete overview of Hope's AI consulting approach.what's included, what's not, the solution-agnostic triage framework, and how engagements are structured.

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AI Agents in the Real World

Case Study
Manufacturing Company · Payroll & Finance

From a 3-hour manual process to a 10-minute review.with near-zero errors.

Every two weeks, an operations admin at a 26-person manufacturing company was spending hours manually matching payroll data across two systems, re-entering it into QuickBooks, and hunting down discrepancies. Here's what changed when an AI agent was built into that process.

Before
✗ Admin manually downloaded time data from one system, opened a separate payroll report, and matched them row by row.across hundreds of entries
✗ Discrepancies had to be found by hand.a missed name spelling or new employee could cause hours of re-work
✗ Re-keyed the final numbers into QuickBooks manually. A process that lived entirely in one person's head
✗ If that person was out, the process stopped
After
✓ Admin forwards one email after payroll closes.the agent pulls the time data automatically from the source system
✓ Before she opens anything, the agent sends a pre-flight report: any new employees, name mismatches, or unusual numbers.already flagged
✓ A formatted, ready-to-post QuickBooks journal entry lands in her inbox.she reviews the totals, not the data
✓ Entire payroll cycle: under 10 minutes. Process is documented, repeatable, and survives staff turnover

The key insight: The human didn't get replaced.her role changed. She went from doing data entry to doing oversight. The agent handles what's repeatable and rule-based. She handles judgment. That's the model. And once one workflow is proven out, adding the next one is just a matter of finding the next task to hand off.

AI Agent Use Cases

5 use cases
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Operations Intelligence

Live Dashboard Agent

Instead of logging into five systems every morning, this agent pulls data from your accounting software, CRM, project tools, and more.and delivers one clean dashboard showing exactly where your business stands. Set it to run on a schedule, and your key numbers are waiting for you before your first meeting.

  • Pulls live data from QuickBooks, CRM, and project tools into one view automatically
  • Sends a morning briefing with your top metrics, flagging anything outside normal range
  • Alerts you when revenue, pipeline, or expenses cross a threshold.without you checking
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Financial Intelligence

Financial AI Agent

Connect an AI Agent to your accounting software.QuickBooks, Sage, and others.and get instant answers in plain English, a custom dashboard showing your key numbers every morning, and optional AI-assisted bookkeeping that drafts journal entries for your review before anything posts.

  • "What's my cash position and anything unusual this month?"
  • "Who owes me money and how overdue?"
  • "Which service line is most profitable?"
  • "Draft a cash flow update for my bank."
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Sales Intelligence

CRM AI Agent

Connected live to your CRM, this agent monitors your pipeline and acts without being asked. It flags stalled deals, drafts follow-up messages in your voice, and delivers a morning briefing on exactly who needs attention today.pulling contact history, last touchpoints, and open items across every active relationship.

  • Sends a morning pipeline briefing: who to call, what's stalled, what's closing
  • Drafts follow-up emails with full client context.ready to send, not ready to start
  • Alerts you when a deal goes quiet before it falls through the cracks
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Document Intelligence

Proposal & Report Agent

Connected to your CRM, project files, and past proposals, this agent pulls live data and generates first-draft documents automatically.without you opening a single template. It knows your voice, your pricing, your clients, and your history. Every output is ready to review, not ready to start.

  • Auto-generates a scoped proposal when a new deal is created in your CRM
  • Pulls meeting transcript → produces summary, action items, and follow-up email.sent automatically
  • Compiles board report from live data across systems every month without being asked
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People Operations

HR & Onboarding Agent

When a new hire is confirmed, this agent triggers automatically.creating their onboarding schedule, sending welcome documents, notifying IT and facilities, and checking off tasks as they're completed. No manual checklists. No dropped balls. A consistent experience every time, even when your team is stretched thin.

  • New hire triggers full onboarding sequence across email, calendar, and task systems
  • Monitors completion and sends reminders to the right people automatically
  • Generates role-specific job postings from your values and org context.not generic templates

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