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AI Beyond the Hype: Part II

Your audience walks out with AI agents already working. Built live, no coding.

AI Beyond The Hype Part II | Ethan King
The Big Idea

Your next hire might not be human.

Part I gave you the tools. Part II gives you the team.

Ethan King leading the AI Beyond The Hype Part II workshop Attendees building AI agents live in the room
The Workshop

Most people are still chatting with AI. The winners are delegating to it.

Less than 1% of AI users have reached level five: agents managing agents. This room gets there in one afternoon.

The problem isn't the technology. It's the overwhelm. New tools drop every week, so most entrepreneurs stall out in analysis paralysis. And the ones who do use AI still do the work: copy here, paste there, publish in five places. That's washing clothes by hand when you could build the washing machine.

So Ethan hands the room one map: the Six Levels of AI Autonomy. Then everybody builds. Digital employees that handle content, customer replies, and lead follow-up 24/7. Then the level most have never seen: agents that manage other agents and run whole workflows overnight. Built live, in the room, no coding. And every version is customized to your audience, your industry, and your moment.

Ethan teaches it as an operator, not a futurist. He spent 15 years automating his own multi-million-dollar, non-tech businesses, and his own AI team drafts his follow-ups, publishes his content, and briefs him before he's had his coffee. He was an art major, not a tech bro. If he can do this, your people can too.

Your audience won't leave with a page of notes. They'll leave with working agents they built themselves, a playbook to scale without growing payroll, and a team that works while they sleep.

Who This Workshop Is For

People done doing work a machine could do.

Groups That Ran Part I

The encore audiences ask for. Members come back and bring the key staff who'll run these systems.

Founders & CEOs

Buried in operations and ready to get their time back for vision, not busywork.

COOs, Integrators & Operators

Scaling output without scaling headcount, one automated workflow at a time.

The AI-Underwhelmed

Tried AI, got slop, and decided it doesn't get their business. This session changes their mind.

Outcomes

Your audience will leave with

Working Agents, Built Live

Digital employees for content, customer replies, and lead follow-up. Running before the session ends.

The Six Levels of AI Autonomy

One map that ends tool overwhelm: when to chat, when to automate, when to hand off the whole job.

A Delegation Engine

The level-five move: agents that manage other agents, delegate tasks, and run complex workflows overnight.

Scale Without Payroll

A plug-and-play playbook to grow operations without growing headcount. Their next hire might not need a salary.

Patrick Donohue, Board Member and Learning Chair, EO Minnesota
"We brought him in last year to start teaching people about AI, and it was one of our most highly recognized events. So very grateful to do this again today."
Patrick Donohue Board Member & Learning Chair, EO Minnesota, introducing Part II
"This is probably one of the best sessions I've been on, especially on this topic... the way you're learning it, sharing it, deploying it, and applying it for your own business. It's remarkable."
Part II Attendee Private equity value creation advisor, EO Minnesota
"Transformational!!! Best event I have attended..."
Brian Pitts Founder & Managing Partner, ITAC Solutions
"Mind blowing. A true epiphany."
Andrew Pharo CFO, Cahaba Brewing
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