Señor Rosa Digital Literacy · Practical AI Workshop

Training Hub

Keep this page open during class. Everything we use today lives here, and you can come back after the workshop. We will practice first with Jake's completely fictional business, then use safe working copies from your own business.

Before class

Get ready

1. Google account and Google Drive Required

Sign into your Google account and confirm that you can open and use Google Drive. We start with Google because you can use the same Google account to sign up for ChatGPT and Netlify more quickly.

Create or access your Google account →

2. ChatGPT Plus Required

Sign into ChatGPT on the laptop you will bring to class. ChatGPT Plus is required for the workshop — $20/month, purchased separately from OpenAI. This is separate from the $5 workshop fee paid to Señor Rosa. If you already have Plus, you do not need another subscription.

Sign up for or access ChatGPT →

3. Netlify Optional

Create and confirm a Netlify account if you want to participate in the website-hosting demonstration. Netlify is an optional, free hosting service that we will use during one of the demos. You can still attend the class without it.

Create a free Netlify account →

Prepare your materials

  • Bring business materials you would actually like to work with.
  • Use working copies. Do not bring the only copy of an important file.
  • Remove sensitive information before class, including Social Security numbers, passwords, credentials, payment-card data, private customer or employee information, tax records, and medical information.
  • Use sample, fictional, anonymized, or redacted data whenever possible.

Training sandbox

Jake's Home Services

Jake is our fictional pink-and-black Doberman entrepreneur. His business is intentionally ridiculous; the files and workflows are not. We can safely copy, upload, edit, break and rebuild Jake's business before touching real business material.

🐕 Jake's Branding Kit

Jake's Home Services
Serious service. Good boy.

Pink-and-black Doberman logo direction, business information, brand colors, service catalog, pricing, sample customer request and intentionally mediocre starting invoice.

🧾 Receipt Demo

Fictional receipt photos used to demonstrate image → extracted information → CSV → Google Sheets.

📊 Oregon Public Business Data

Public licensing and registration data used to identify potential business leads.

🌐 Jake's Sample Website

Simple website files for the Netlify deployment exercise. The website address becomes the real Netlify URL created during class.

Jake's fictional business identity

Business: Jake's Home Services

Tagline: Serious service. Good boy.

Alternate line: Protecting what matters. Eating what doesn't.

Email: info@senorrosa.com

Website: Assigned when Jake's site is published to Netlify during class.

Brand: A stylized black Doberman with hot-pink accents. Primary colors: Jake Pink #FF0A78, Doberman Black #171217, Warm White #FFF9FC, Soft Pink #FFE5F0, Gray #6F666C.

Services

  • Parcel Delivery Notifications — immediate notification of suspicious package-delivery activity.
  • Squirrel Patrols — enthusiastic monitoring and pursuit of unauthorized squirrels.
  • Cat Deterrence — perimeter monitoring, staring and strongly worded barking.

Jake's Home Services is fictional workshop training data. No squirrels were meaningfully deterred.

Participant session · 1:00–4:00

What we're doing today

1:00–1:15 · Arrival & setup

TOGETHER

Settle in, connect laptops, confirm your Google account and access to the workshop files, and make sure you are ready to jump in.

1:15–1:30 · Welcome & get plugged in

TOGETHER

Introductions, verify ChatGPT, Google and Netlify accounts, open the shared training files, and make sure you can find them again.

1:30–2:00 · Create a branded business document

WATCH → ASK → DO

Watch Jake's business material become a professional branded, fillable document. Ask questions. Then repeat the workflow yourself using Jake's training business.

Pattern: source material → business context → request → refine → useful file → save it somewhere you understand.

Workflow: create the document → save it → open it on a phone → print or share it.

Why this matters: You can create or update a quote at a customer site, send the PDF immediately, or print a clean copy when you need a physical handout.

2:00–2:15 · Receipt photos to spreadsheet

WATCH → ASK

Watch photographed receipts become structured information, CSV data and a usable Google Sheet.

Pattern: messy visual information → structured data.

2:15–2:35 · Oregon Public data to business leads

WATCH → ASK → DO

Use public information to understand opportunities, identify useful leads and organize practical follow-up actions.

Pattern: public information → interpretation → useful decision → next action.

2:35–3:15 · Bring in your business

DO → ASK

Create an AI Workshop - Working Copy folder with safe versions of your business materials, then build something useful for your actual business.

3:15–3:50 · Put a website on the internet

WATCH → ASK → DO

Watch simple website files get deployed to Netlify and become a real public website. Then deploy the training site or your own version.

Pattern: files you control → Netlify → public URL.

3:50–4:00 · Questions & wrap-up

ASK → KEEP GOING

Final questions, troubleshooting and next steps. Keep this training page and the workshop resources after class.

Keep this

Workshop resources

Prompt patterns

  • Goal + context + constraints + output format
  • “Ask me the questions you need before you begin.”
  • “Give me three approaches and explain the tradeoffs.”
  • “What assumptions are you making?”
  • “What should I verify before I act on this?”

Three things to remember

  • Give AI context. Better source material usually produces better work.
  • Understand your files. Know what they are, where they live and how to move them.
  • Protect your business. Work from copies, protect sensitive information and verify important output.