A different bet
Stop collecting AI tools. Decide which work AI is allowed to prepare, and which work a person must finish.
For owners who have already tried AI and gone back to doing it themselves
There is a reason AI still is not working in your business.
Join Mike Montes for a training on how a faith-driven or local business can put AI on real jobs — the message, the follow-up, the weekly work — without handing the brand to a robot.
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The hook
You do not have a tool problem. You have an install problem.
The old opportunity is another login and a longer prompt. The new opportunity is a short list of jobs your business already does, a guardrail so the words still sound like you, and a person who still owns the final draft.
Why it clicked
The origin below is a template. Mike Montes fills in the moment AI advice stopped fitting the businesses The Tribe Maker serves.
A seat in the training
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This is for
- Owners of faith-driven and local businesses who want AI in the work, not in a tab
- Teams who will keep a human responsible for what goes out under their name
- People who have one real job they can bring to the training
This is not for
- Anyone hunting for a button that runs the company unattended
- A model bake-off or an engineering tutorial
- A pile of prompts with no job attached
The story
The epiphany that changed how we look at AI
Mike Montes is the founder of The Tribe Maker. The beats below are prompts for his real origin story. They are not biography.
Backstory
[Where were you, and where was The Tribe Maker, when AI first showed up in client work? What were you actually selling and serving?]
The wall
[What did you try that did not fit a faith-driven or local business? What felt off about the usual AI advice — the hype, the generic output, the time it took from client work?]
The epiphany
[What did you see, in a specific moment, that changed the approach? One scene. One realization.]
The plan
[What simple way of working came out of that epiphany? Name it only if that name is already yours.]
The result you can prove
[What changed for the agency or for a real client? Insert a result only if you can stand behind it. Otherwise remove this block.]
The three secrets
Three false beliefs that keep AI out of a real business
Expert-style secrets. Each one names a belief that stalls an owner, then the shift the training is built to make. Edit the lines so they match the session.
The chatbot is not the opportunity
- False belief
- "AI is either a magic button or a waste of time."
- What breaks it
- The vehicle is a job inside the business you already run: a draft, a checklist, a follow-up, prepared for a person to finish. If the job is fuzzy, the output will be fuzzy. The training starts by picking the job, not the tool.
You do not need to become technical
- False belief
- "I am not technical enough for this."
- What breaks it
- The skill that matters is judgment you already use: what the customer needs to hear, what the brand will never say, and what done looks like. This is built for owners, not for engineers.
Your market does not need a tour of the tools
- False belief
- "My customers, my team, or my industry will not go for this."
- What breaks it
- People do not need to see the software. They need a faster reply, a clearer offer, and a brand that still sounds like you. AI stays backstage. Your name stays on the work.
The offer
Here is what you get when you register
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The live training
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The install worksheet
[The page they fill in to pick one job and one guardrail.]
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The brand-voice guardrails
[The do and don't list that keeps AI output sounding like the business.]
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Bonus: [third bonus name]
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What owners say
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[Replace with a specific sentence this client said about the training, or about working with The Tribe Maker.]
[Role] · [Business type]
[Result, with the number and the time frame, only if you can document it.]
[Replace with a sentence about the work still sounding like their brand.]
[Role] · [Business type]
[Result you have permission to print, or delete this line.]
[Replace with a sentence about the team actually using it on a weekly job.]
[Role] · [Business type]
[Result you have permission to print, or delete this line.]
The guarantee
The promise, once you write it
[State what they must do, what they should leave with, and what you will do if that does not happen. Example shape only: attend the session, leave with one workflow for a job you already have, and a clear next step if that does not happen. Rewrite in your words.]
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Questions
Straight answers
Owners of faith-driven and local businesses who want AI inside work they already do. It is not an engineering course.
No. You need a real job from your business and the judgment to know what your brand should never say. Bring that. Leave the model trivia.
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Mike Montes, founder of The Tribe Maker. The agency builds brands, websites, and marketing systems for faith-driven and local businesses.
Bring one real job. Leave with a way to install it.
Register with your first name and email. This preview stops on the thank-you state. The live page will send the training details.
P.S.
If you have already opened an AI chat, shrugged, and gone back to doing the work by hand, that is the point of this training. The missing piece is not a better prompt. It is a job, a guardrail, and a person who still signs the work.
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