For non-technical business owners, consultants, and freelancers.

Learn to use Codex as a working AI assistant for your business — in one practical afternoon.

A 4-hour live online workshop on websites, copy, marketing, admin, and reviewing the paid tools you're already using. 15 seats. $197 AUD beta pricing. The first 10 buyers lock lifetime access to the full program as it's built.

Join the beta workshop — $197 AUD

5 of 15 seats remaining · Refunds up to 48 hours before the session.

Live online · join from anywhere 4 hours · with a workbook and replay 15 seats · capped beta cohort
Workshop slide: 'What is Codex?' — explaining that Codex works best when briefed with your real files, customers, examples, and way of working.

Most business owners are still using AI like a slightly better search box. You ask it to draft a homepage paragraph and it gives you four paragraphs that read like a HR consultant on a slow day. You ask it to outline an ad and it returns a generic blog post. You close the tab. The subscription leaves your account every month and not much else happens.

The missing piece, almost always, is context. Codex used well isn't a chat box. Set up properly, it sits alongside your business files, your customer notes, your tone of voice, and the actual work in front of you. You direct it. You review it. You get back work that fits your business — not the same generic answer your competitors are getting from the same blank prompt.

This workshop is four hours of doing exactly that, on real business tasks, in a group of fifteen. No theory segments. No "what is an LLM" detour. No certificate.

What you walk out with

Eight practical assets, ready to use the next morning.

Included with your seat

  • A Codex setup briefed on your business — services, customers, tone of voice, the files and notes you already have. Not the blank chatbox you've been getting nowhere with.
  • The business context template — filled in for your own business in the room. Re-use it any time you brief Codex on a new task.
  • A prompt and instruction pack — plain English, reusable, written for business work. Not "prompt engineering" tricks.
  • A website and copy review workflow — the context-instruction-review-revision loop, applied to a real page.
  • A subscription and tool audit worksheet — to spot overlap, jobs handled by more than one tool, and where Codex may replace a paid subscription.
  • A safe-review checklist — what to check before AI work goes anywhere near a customer. Facts, tone, fit, technical claims.
  • A workshop replay and the attendee workbook — kept for as long as the program runs.
  • For the first 10 buyers only: lifetime access to the full program as it's built — every later module, replay, and template added as SkillBuild expands.

Is this for you?

Quick fit check, before you book.

Join if

  • You run a small business, consultancy, agency, or freelance practice.
  • You're comfortable using software but you're not a developer — and don't want to become one.
  • You've got real business work — websites, copy, marketing, admin, planning — that you'd like AI to actually help with.
  • You're paying for at least one AI subscription and aren't sure you're using it well.
  • You're willing to follow along and try the workflow, not just watch a video.

Skip it if

  • You want a passive course you never actually open.
  • You expect AI to do everything perfectly with no review.
  • You want advanced code-agent or developer training.
  • You don't want to check or think critically about AI output.
  • You just want theory — "what is an LLM," "history of AI," etc.

The four hours

What we'll cover, in order.

01 Segment one

What Codex actually is — in plain English.

Most business owners have only used AI as a chat box. We start by showing what Codex is, how it differs from regular ChatGPT, and what changes when you treat it as a work assistant instead of a search box.

By the end of the segment you'll know what it's useful for, what it isn't, and why your last few attempts probably came back generic.

What Codex isWhat it isn'tWhere it earns its keep
02 Segment two

Set it up around your actual business.

Your services. Your customers. Your tone of voice. The files and notes you already have. We walk through the simple business-context template that's the difference between Codex giving you a generic answer and Codex giving you an answer that fits.

You'll fill it in for your own business in the room, save it, and re-use it from then on.

Business context templateCodex setup checklistTone-of-voice notes
03 Segment three

Put it on real work, not toy examples.

Four practical workflows on real business tasks: improving a website section, writing clearer service copy, planning an SEO or ad task, and turning messy notes into next steps.

For each one you'll see the same loop — context, instruction, first output, review, revision, usable result — and you'll have the prompt and instruction templates to take home and re-run.

Website + copy workflowSEO + ads planningNotes → next steps
04 Segment four

Audit your tools. Review the work safely.

We open your list of paid subscriptions and run a simple audit: what you pay for, what each tool actually does, where the overlap is, what to keep, what to review, what Codex might handle instead.

Then the review habit: what to check before you ship AI work — facts, tone, business fit, technical claims. The two-minute review that catches most of the problems before they go anywhere near a customer.

Subscription audit worksheetSafe-review checklistFirst 7 days plan

What "context" looks like

A blank prompt versus a briefed one. Same tool. Same length.

Blank prompt "Write a homepage paragraph for a local plumber."

"Welcome to Local Plumbing! We are a family-owned business with over 20 years of experience servicing the local community. Our friendly and professional team is dedicated to providing the highest quality service to all of our valued customers."

Briefed with the business Same tool, with services, jobs, voice, and a real customer in the brief.

"Blocked drain at 4 pm Friday? We'll be there before the weekend. Quoted up front — what we say is what you pay. Family-run, twenty years on the books."

That is the entire premise of the workshop — a re-usable way to brief Codex with what your business actually does, so the output stops sounding like everyone else's.

Taught by

Bob Jones — founder of SkillBuild AI.

I built this workshop because most AI training I've seen for business owners is theory in a slide deck, and most prompt packs on the internet are recycled. Neither one helps you actually use the tool on the work in front of you.

SkillBuild is a small, independent training brand. The first offer is this beta workshop. The first ten buyers are the founding cohort and keep lifetime access to the full program as it's built out — extra modules, replays, templates, and the rest.

  • Independent — not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, or any AI vendor.
  • Plain-English teaching, no developer language.
  • Beta pricing for the first cohort while the larger program is being built.

The deal

Refundable up to 48 hours before. Keep the replay either way.

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How refunds and access work.

This is a live beta workshop with limited seats. If you need to pull out, message me up to 48 hours before the session and your $197 goes back, no questions. After that, your seat stays — and you still get the workshop replay, the workbook, and the prompt pack. The first-10 lifetime program bonus is locked at time of purchase.

Codex for Business Owners · Beta cohort

Join the first SkillBuild cohort.

Four hours, live online, fifteen seats. Beta pricing reflects that the larger program is still being built — the first ten buyers lock in lifetime access as new modules, replays, and templates are added.

$197 AUD · one payment
  • FormatLive online · 4 hours
  • Next cohortOpens June 2026
  • Seats15 (5 remaining)
  • IncludesWorkbook · prompt pack · replay
  • BonusFirst 10 → lifetime program access

Stripe checkout. Refunds up to 48 hours before the session.

Before you book

Questions I get a lot.

Do I need to be technical?

Nope. If you can use Gmail and a website builder, you're fine. No coding, no terminal, no developer stuff.

Will you tell me to cancel every subscription I'm paying for?

No. Some tools are pulling their weight, some aren't. We help you tell the difference — not torch the lot.

Will I walk out with a finished website?

No, and anyone promising that in four hours is having a lend of you. You walk out with a working setup, clear next steps, and the confidence to keep going on your own.

Is this an OpenAI thing?

No. SkillBuild AI is independent. Codex is the tool we're teaching you to use, not a brand we're affiliated with.

P.S. The first ten seats — of which five remain at time of writing — include lifetime access to the full program as it's built. Every later module, replay, and template added as SkillBuild expands. After cohort 01 the workshop is sold on its own without that bonus. If you've read this far and you're still thinking about it, the difference between booking now and booking the next cohort is the lifetime program. Reserve a seat here.